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Fluid Extract of Stillingia
Cut fresh root of stillingia, 16 troy ounces, into small pieces; cover with alcohol, and digest for 24 hours. Then transfer to a percolator, and pack it so as to run slowly; add liquor is obtained to make the fluid extract measure 3 pints. The proportion of sugar, though less than that in syrup, is sufficient to of hydrocyanic acid. preserve the preparation, aided by the presence tract of Buchu. Take of buchu, in coarse 4590. Parrish's Compound Fluid Expowder, 12 ounces; alcohol, 3 pints; water, 6 pints, or sufficient. Treat the leaves by maalcohol gradually, returning the first that ceration and displacement, first with a porpasses until it runs clear. Reserve the first tion of the alcohol, and then with the remain- 12 fluid ounces percolated ; then continue the der mixed with the water; evaporate the percolation, with diluted alcohol, until the resulting liquid with a gentle heat to 3 pints, residuum is nearly exhausted ; add 8 ounces and add 24 pounds sugar. Continue the heat white sugar to this dilute percolate , and evap- till it is dissolved, and, after removing from orate by moderate heat to 4 fluid ounces. the fire, add oil of cubebs, oil of juniper, of Add to this the reserved tincture, and 1 fluid each 1 fluid drachm; spirit of nitric ether, 12 drachm oil of caraway, and make 1 pint fluid fluid ounces, previously mixed. extract. The dose is from 2 to 5 drops. gether.
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