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Fluid Extract of Seneka

The ing, with occasional agitation, for 24 hours, formula for making this extract will be found filter, dropping sufficient of the menstruum in No. 4576, but seneka yields its active prinseneka yields its active prinon the filter to make the whole measure 2 ciples so easily and entirely, that an extract pints. Hive Syrup may now be prepared of it may be obtained of standard strength from this extract by taking: compound fluid without evaporation. If a convenient quan- If a convenient quanextract of squills, 4 fluid ounces; tartar emet- tity of seneka in No. 50 powder be divided ic, 24 grains; simple syrup, 20 fluid ounces; into 3 equal parts, and repercolated with 85 hot water, fluid ounce. Dissolve the tartar per cent. alcohol, an extract will be obtained, emetic in the water, and mix with the other ingredients. each fluid ounce of which will represent a troy ounce of the root.

4594. Procter's Fluid Extract of 4599. Fluid Extract of Ipecacuanha. Moisten 16 troy ounces ipecacuanha in fing powder with 6 fluid ounces alcohol; press it firmly into a conical percolator, and displace 3 Hops. Take hops in coarse powder, 16 troy ounces. Mix in 4 ounces dilute alcohol; pack it in a conical percolator, cover the surface with cloth, and add dilute alcohol until 3 pints pints of tincture, or until the ipecacuanha is of tincture have slowly passed, carefully re- exhausted. Distill the tincture over a water- Distill the tincture over a waterserving the first 12 ounces. Evaporate the bath until the residue is of a syrupy consistresidue is of a syrupy consistremainder of the tincture in a water-bath still ence. Mix with 1 fluid ounce acetic acid to 4 fluid ounces, mix it with the reserved and 10 fluid ounces water; boil until reduced tincture, agitate occasionally during 24 hours, to pint, and the resinous matter has separaand filter, dropping sufficient dilute alcohol ted. Filter when cold, and add water through on the filter to make the measure of a pint. the filter to make the filtrate up to 1/2 pint. to make the filtrate up to + pint.

4595. Procter's Fluid Extract of Mix with pint alcohol . (U. S. Ph.) Liquorice. Take of Calabria liquorice, 8 It is affirmed that syrup made from extract troy ounces; and sugar in coarse powder, 10 prepared according to the above formula is troy ounces. Bruise the liquorice till it is re- apt to become cloudy. It is proposed to duced to pieces the size of a pea, enclose it avoid this result by dividing ipecacuanha in in a gauze cloth, suspend it in a pint vessel, No. 50 powder into 3 parts, and obtaining cover it with cold water, let it stand 12 the extract by repercolation in the same manrepercolation in the same inanhours (if in summer in a cool place), pour off ner as the seneka in No. 4598.