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Class No (Classified Fluid class should)
2, of Classified Fluid class should also be in at least No. 60 powder. Ipecacuanha and jalap may be reduced to dust with advantage. The fluid to be used is alcohol having a specific gravity of .835.
Aconite Root.
Black Snakeroot (Cimicifuga, or Black Cohosh ).
Black Hellebore.
Ipecacuanha.
Jalap.
May-apple Root (Podophylium or Mandrake ).
Blood Root (Sanguinaria):
American Hellebore (Veratrum viride).
Moisten 16 troy ounces of the drug with 6 fluid ounces of the alcohol; displace 3 pints as directed in class 1, reserving the first 1/22 the first pint of percolate; distill the remainder until reduced to pint, and, while hot, mix the distillate with the reserved tincture. After standing 24 hours, filter through paper. through paper. acetic acid is introduced to control the tendency to decomposition, caused by the existby the exist ence, in the drugs treated in this manner, of a salt consisting of an alkaloid and an organic acid. The fluid used is a mixture of 1/2 fluid is a mixture of ounce acetic acid and 3 pints diluted alcohol; and the drugs should be reduced to a No. 60 powder.
Ergot. Lobelia Leaves. Hemlock (Conium).
Moisten 16 troy ounces of the powder with pint of the acetic mixture; pack it in a conical percolator, and displace 3 pints, reserving the first 12 fluid ounces, using dilute alcohol during the last part of the percolation . Evaporate the latter percolate to 4 fluid ounces, at a temperature not exceeding 150° Fahr.; mix this with the reserved tincture, and filtincture, and filter through paper.