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Mialhe's Ioduretted Gaseous chona
Take 4 troy ounces red cinchona, 3 Water. Iodide of potassium, 15 grains; troy ounces bitter orange peel, 6 drachms bicarbonate of soda, 75 grains; water, 1 serpentaria (Vinginia snakeroot). 3 drachms pint; dissolve, and add sulphuric acid di- red saunders, all in moderately fine powder; luted with its weight of water, 75 grains. and 3 drachms saffron in moderately coarse Cork immediately. powder. Mix the powders, moisten with 4 fluid ounces diluted alcohol, pack it firmly in a glass percolator, and displace, with diluted alcohol, 2+ pints of tincture. (U. S. Ph.)