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Ferrated Wine of Wild Cherry
Exhaust 12 ounces bruised wild cherry bark of its tonic principles with alcohol, and carefully evaporate the alcoholic tincture so as to expel the alcohol; add 6 ounces water and 1/2 ounce hydrated sesquioxide of iron. Macerate this with occasional agitation for 6 hours, and filter into a bottle containing an emulsion of 2 ounces sweet almonds in 6 ounces water.
When reaction has ceased, filter again, and add 12 ounces white sugar, and for every ounce thus prepared, add 24 grains citrate of iron, previously dissolved in water sufficient to make the whole fluid extract measure 24 fluid ounces. The addition of iron to the bitter principle and hydrocyanic acid of the simple extract of wild cherry should render it Saturate 1 part by weight starchy pepsino