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German Syrup of Rhubarb
Take of alkaline fluid extract of rhubarb, 3 fluid ounces (sce No. 4591); oil of cinnamon, 3 minims; sugar, 36 troy ounces. Mix the oil of cinnamon with the fluid extract, then 4682. Cadet's Compound Syrup of add sufficient water to make the whole mix- Ipecacuanha. Mix 2 ounces each syrup of ture weigh 20 troy ounces; in this dissolve ipecacuanha and syrup of poppies, 1 cunce the sugar with the aid of heat, and strain. syrup of orange flowers, and 1½ oxymel of The above formula for syrup of rhubarb, of squill. 2 tea-spoonfuls constitute a dose in the Prussian pharmacopœia, is in officinal pro- whooping-cough. portions, and vields a strictly officinal result. 4683. Compound Syrup of Yellow-