Chalybeate or Steel Wine.
Take filings of iron, two ounces; cinnamon and mace, of each two drachms; Rhenish wine, two pints. Infuse for three or four weeks, frequently shaking the bottle; then pass the wine through a filter.
In obstructions of the menses, this preparation of iron may be taken, in the dose of half a wine-glass twice or thrice a-day.
The medicine would probably be as good if made with Lisbon wine, sharpened with half an ounce of the cream of tartar, or a small quantity of the vitriolic acid.
William Buchan
Domestic Medicine 2nd edition 1785