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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 bark in powder, 1 ounce; co- 256 grains. (See next receipt.) White wine (sherry), 1 pint; curaçoa (the best), 5+ fluid ounces. Dissolve the precipitated extract of bark in the wine by aid of a sufficient quantity of citric acid, then add the citrate of iron, filter the solution, and add to it the curaçoa, lumba root in coarse powder, 3 drachms; bruised cloves, 2 drachms; filings of iron, separated by a magnet, 1/2 ounce; digest for 3 days with occasional agitation in a covered vessel, with as much peppermint water as will give 12 ounces of a filtered proand mix. The peculiarities of this prepara- duct, and then add compound tincture of cartion are, that it consists of iron and cinchona, damoms, 3 fluid ounces, and tincture of and yet is free from any inky taste or appear- orange peel, 2 fluid drachms. This mixture ance, is perfectly transparent, of a light should be kept in a well-stoppered bottle. brown color not very different from that of Properties, tonic, and valuable in various sherry wine, and a bitter, not disagreeable states of debility; dose from 1/2 to 2 fluid taste. The label claims for it the presence of ounces. citrate of the magnetic oxide of iron, as the ferruginous ingredient. The dose of this preparation is a tea-spoonful.