Encyclopedia of Practical Receipts and Processes

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Elixirs

31 receipts in this part of Practical Receipts and Processes.

Shinn's Bitter Wine of Iron

4703. Squibb's Liquor of Iodide of Take of sulphate of cinchona, 6 drachms; Iron. Take of iodine, 2 ounces; iron-wire, sulphate of quinia…

Physic's Bitter Wine of Iron

Take of iron filings, 3 ounces; ginger, bruised, gentian, bruised, each, 1 ounce; orangepeel, bruised, 1/2 ounce; strong old cider, 1 pint…

Wine of Calisaya Bark

Digest 1 part powdered Peruvian bark in 12 parts white wine for 24 hours, and filter. A similar preparation may be made of 20 parts of red…

Hubbell's Wine of Iron

Take citrate (of magnetic oxide) of iron, 128 4712. Aromatic Mixture of Iron. grains; precipitated extract of Calisaya bark, Take Peruvian…

Procter's Rennet Wine

Take of fresh rennets (about 3), 24 troy ounces; chloride of sodium, 3 ounces; alcohol, 6 fluid ounces; white wine, 16 fluid ounces. Wash |…

Wine of Wild Cherry Bark

Professor Parrish gives the following formula in his "Elements of Pharmacy." Alcoholic extract (from 24 ounces) of wild cherry bark, 5½…

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…

Corvisart's Elixir of Pepsine

half an hour in a covered vessel, and filter with 15 parts elixir of garus. Macerate for through wetted paper. Dose, 1 table-spoonful…

Mialhe's Elixir of Pepsine

Macerate 1 part by weight of starchy pepsine, and 5 parts sugar, in 2 parts proof spirit, 9 parts white wine, and 4 parts water, until the…

Wine of Beef and Iron

Dissolve 1 ounce Liebig's extract of meat in 4 ounces water and 1/2 drachm bruised allspice; after standing 10 hours add 16 ounces sherry…

Nutritive Wine

This is preomitting the citrate of iron. (Newark P. A.) Strychnia. Triturate 256 grains Hawley's 4724. Elixir of Pepsine, Bismuth, and…

Ferrated Elixir of Wild Cherry

and mace; 1 ounce orange peel, 1 ounce ger- Take of fluid extract of wild cherry bark, 4 tian root. Reduce to powder and percolate fluid…

Elixir de Garus

Digest 2 parts by weight each of aloes and myrrh, and 1 part Spanish saffron, in 24 parts of 60 per cent. alcohol, and 2 of diluted…

Wine of Pepsine

Triturate 160 wine and 1 drachm dilute muriatic acid; pour this on a filter and pass 12 ounces more sherry wine through it. Each fluid…

Aromatic Elixir

Take 4. drachms orange peel, 2 drachms coriander seed, 2½ drachms angelica seed, and 1 drachra cochineal. Pulverize and percolate with 12…

Elixir of Pepsine

Dissolve 1 4728. Elixir of Valerianate of Ampart by weight starchy pepsine in 8 parts wa- monia. Dissolve 96 grains valerianate of by…

Elixir of Taraxacum

Take of found among the effects of the late Dr. Chiltaraxacum root, 6 ounces (or fluid extract of ton: Take 5 pounds of Turkey opium, cut…

Chloroform Elixir

Take 1 ounces cach chloroform, tincture of opium, tincture of camphor, and aromatic spirit of ammonia; 20 drops oil of cinnamon, and 2…

Mynsicht's Elixir of Vitriol

This elixir is also known by the name of acid aromatic tincture. Take cinnamon, 2 ounces; lesser cardamoms, cloves, galanga root, and small…

Moore's Elixir of Valerianate cum

As prepared by Mr. Candidus for Dr. of Ammonia. Take of valerianic acid, 1 Cochran, of Mobile. Reduce the following fluid…

Ammonio-Ferric Alum

This elegant styptic remedy has recently been much prescribed, especially in leucorrhœa; it is

Elixir of Vitriol

Called also aromatic sulphuric acid. In order that elixir of vitriol may be miscible with water without precipitation, aromatics of an…

Alcoholized Sulphuric Acid

separate deutoxide of nitrogen, and reduce To 3 parts rectified spirits, add, very gradually, the liquid to about one half, then add the…

Cantharidal Collodion

Take 8 marked astringency without the stimulating troy ounces finely powdered cantharides, properties of some of this class of salts. It…

To Prepare Collodion

Mix 21 fluid ounces stronger ether with 6 fluid ounces stronger alcohol in a suitable bottle, add the quantity of moist prepared cotton (as…

Morphia Collodion

Collodion, mixture over the arnica, previously finely 30 parts; muriate of morphia, 1 part. Ap- bruised. Allow it to stand for 48 hours…

To Administer Hydrate of tained

Evaporate this tincture in a water- Chloral. Physicians should prescribe only bath (or still) till reduced to a soft resinous to a soft…

Medicated Oils

These are preis quite unpleasant, but orange-juice com- pared by infusion or decoction. The bruised pletely covers it, ar and so does…

Phosphorated Ether

Dissolve 2 grains phosphorus in 1/2 drachm oil of peppershade leaves; fox glove leaves; garlic; hemlock leaves; henbane leaves; juniper…

Compound Spirit of Ether

This preparation is known by the name of Hoffmann's Anodyne, and consists of 1/2 pint ether, 1 pint alcohol, and 6 fluid drachms ethereal…

Camphor Water (Pulverize through a fine sieve)

Pulverize 120 through a fine sieve. Proceed to displace grains camphor in a mortar with 40 minims alcohol; triturate it first with 1/2 troy…

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