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Class No (Classified Fluid be reduced)
1, of Classified Fluid be reduced to a powder of No. 60 degree of fineness ; with the exception of Buchu, which should be in No. 40 powder.
Aconite Leaves. the powder being introduced at once, and packed with a pestle or packing-stick. The whole quantity of the menstruum may now be poured on, or to the capacity of the funnel, and the process allowed to proceed to completion, without in any case repassing the first portions of the liquid. By this process, if Belladonna Leaves. carefully followed, very concentrated solutions are obtained. Indeed, most of the fluid extracts may be completed with little or no evaporation. 4573. Procter's Classified Formula for Making Fluid Extracts. In order to Buchu.
Henbane Leaves.
Matico.
Thorn-Apple (Stramonium).
Digitalis (Foxglove). | Valerian.
The menstruum employed is 2 pints alcotroy ounces of the powdered drug evenly with hol diluted with 1 pint water. Moisten 16 4 fluid ounces of the diluted alcohol; pack it obtain as great a uniformity in the preparation firmly in a percolator, cover the surface of the of fluid extracts as the nature of the various powder with a disc of cloth (muslin, linen, drugs would permit, the following practical lint, or any insoluble porous tissue, to prevent classification was drawn up by Professor the disturbance of the powder); then pour on William Procter, Jr., and submitted to the the menstruum gradually, so as to displace 3 American Pharmaceutical Association, by pints ; reserve the first 12 fluid ounces, and whom the matter had been entrusted to him evaporate the remainder on a water-bath at for investigation. In order to economize 150 Fahr., to 4 fluid ounces; mix this with space, we give it in a somewhat condensed the reserved tincture; and, after standing 24 form. The paramount object in obtaining hours, filter through paper. The alcoholic the fluid extract of a drug, is to extract, as far strength of these extracts is nearly 50 per as possible, all the valuable ingredients; to cent. condense them to some uniform standard strength, so that, for instance, each fluid Extracts. The drugs included under this