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Elixir of Calisaya Bark

Reduce to a moderate powder, 8 ounces Calisaya bark; 4 ounces each orange peel, cinnamon, and coriander seed; ounce each anise seed, above ingredients with 4 pints alcohol diluted 4688. Grimault's Syrup of Horse- with 12 pints water, and add 2 pints simple radish. Hager gives the following direc- syrup. tions: 50 parts each of fresh scurvy-grass, 4699. Ferro-phosphorated Elixir of buckbean, and watercress, 60 parts of horse- Calisaya Bark. The percolate obtained in radish, 40 of fresh orange berries, are infused with 3 parts of cinnamon in 50 parts white wine, and, after a day, expressed; 250 parts sugar are dissolved in the filtrate.

4689. Grimault's Iodinized Syrup of Horseradish. This contains 10 parts iodine, and 5 parts iodine of potassium, in 8000 parts of the above syrup of horseradish. the last receipt, without the syrup, should be digested with fresh hydrated oxide of iron; this is obtained from the solution of tincture of chloride of iron (prepared according to the formula of the U. S. Pharmacopœia, before the alcohol is added), 8 ounces of which solution, precipitated by sufficient ammonia, furnish the requisite quantity of hydrated oxide of iron. After standing for 12 to 24 hours, with frequent shaking, test a small quantity with a few drops of tincture of iron; if it Oxymel. An acidulous syrup made blackens with this test, more hydrated oxide of honey and vinegar. The ingredients in an oxymel should preferably be of such character, and in such proportions, as to produce a mixture of the proper consistence without further evaporation.