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Alkaline Syrup Rhubarb

dock. Grind and mix together 2 pounds yel- Take of alkaline fluid extract of rhubarb, 6 low-dock root (rumex), 1 pound bark of false fluid ounces (see No. 4591); oil of cinnamon, bitter-sweet root, 1/2 pound American ivy bark, 3 minims; sugar, 36 troy ounces. Mix the and 1/2 pound figwort. Cover them with 76 per oil of cinnamon with the fluid extract; then cent. alcohol, and let them stand for 2 days. add sufficient water to make the whole mix- Then displace through a percolator with hot ture weigh 20 troy ounces; in this dissolve water 2 pints extract, which reserve. Conthe sugar, with the aid of heat, and strain. tinue the percolation with hot water, and re-