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Compound Chloroform Syrup
This formula for an anodyne containing chloroform will remain combined and mix readily with either spirit or water. Macerate for 2 or 3 days 16 grains resin of cannabis, 2 grains capsicum, and 8 drops oil of peppermint in 4 drachms chloroform and 1½ drachms ether; filter the product. To about 1 ounce syrup add 1/2 drachm each of water and per- 4655. Compound Syrup of Sarsaparilla. Reduce the following to moderately chloric acid, and dissolve in this by a watercoarse powder, adopting the troy ounce bath, 16 grains muriate of morphia; when throughout: 24 ounces sarsaparilla, 3 ounces cold add 96 minims Scheele's hydrocyanic guaiacum wood, 2 ounces each pale rose, acid, add to this the filtrate first made, and senna, and liquorice root. Mix with 3 pints syrup sufficient to make the whole up to 4 diluted alcohol, and allow the mixture to ounces. stand for 24 hours. Transfer to a cylindrical percolator, and displace 10 pints with diluted alcohol. Evaporate by a water-bath to 4 pints; filter, and add 96 ounces coarsely powdered sugar by the aid of heat, and strain while hot. Lastly take 5 minims each of the oils of sassafras and anise; and 3 minims oil of gaultheria; rub these oils with a small portion of the solution, and mix them thoroughly with the remainder. (U. S. Ph.)
4656. Scovill's Compound Syrup of Sarsaparilla. Take 8 ounces each sarsaparilla, burdock root and yellow dock; 6 ounces stillingia root (queen's root), 2 ounces turkey pea, 4 ounces false bitter-sweet, 3 ounces dandelion root, 3 ounces juniper berries, 1 ounce prickly-ash berries, 2 ounces guaiacum wood, and 9 ounces bamboo briar root. Coarsely bruise the above ingredients,