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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 ounce; distilled water, 24 fluid ounces ingredients to a moderately fine powder: 6 inodorous alcohol, 12 fluid ounces; simple ounces taraxacum root, 4 ounces wild cherry syrup, 12 fluid ounces; peach water, 8 fluid bark, 1 ounce gentian root, 2 ounces orange ounces; saturated tincture of red saunders, 4 peel, 1 ounce cinnamon, 1 ounce coriander seed. fluid drachms; saturated tincture of recent 2 drachms each anise, caraway and cardamom anise, caraway and cardamomi orange peel, 1 fluid ounce; oil of bitter al- seeds, and 1 ounce liquorice root. Dilute suffi- . Dilute suffimonds, 5 minims; and oil of sweet orange, 20 cient alcohol with twice its bulk of water. and minims. Mix the valerianic acid and the moisten the powdered ingredients with 6 distilled water, and a sufficient quantity of ounces of it, pack in a conical percolator and carbonate of ammonia to saturate the acid; displace 6+ pints with the diluted alcohol.

Add to this 2½ pints simple syrup. Dose, | lastly, add 6 pounds finest white sugar broken from to 1 ounce. This elixir is an excellent up into small lumps, but perfectly free from vehicle for quinine, the taste of which it com- dust and dirt. When dissolved, put the inpletely destroys. fusion into clean, stoppered green glass bot- 4737. Squibb's Ammonio-Pyrophos- tles, and keep it from the light in a cool place. phate of Iron. Take of pyrophosphate of Product very superior. soda, 4 parts by weight; solution of tersulphate Or: Take rose leaves, acid, and cold water, of iron, 8 parts; citric acid, 24 parts; water of as last, mix, and infuse for 48 hours in a ammonia, 64 parts. Dissolve the pyrophos- clean, covered, earthenware vessel, then press phate of soda (which is prepared by first drying out the liquid with the hands, filter, and add and then calcining common phosphate of soda) the sugar as before. Product very fine, and, keeps well. In employing the first formula, care should be taken that the utensils be perfectly clean, especially the press, and earthenware glazed with lead should be avoided. The pressing should also be conducted as rapidly as possible, to avoid the color being injured by the iron, though clean iron does not readily injure infusion of roses before the addition of the acid. Should not the infusion filter quite clear through paper, the addition of the whites of 2 or 3 eggs, diluted with 2 or 3 ounces of water, followed by violent agitation of the liquid for a few minutes, and repose for 1 or 2 hours, will usually render it fine, when it may either be decanted or filtered should it require it. It will now pass rapidly through ordinary filtering paper, and at once run clear. in 60 parts water by means of heat; cool the solution to 50° Fahr. and filter it into a bottle of the capacity of 250 parts. Then add the solution of tersulphate of iron (see No. 4816), shake the mixture well, fill the bottle up with water, again agitate it, and set it aside for 24 hours to settle. Decant the clear liquid from the precipitate by means of a syphon, and repeat the washing and decantation twice. Then pour the precipitate upon a strainer, drain it for 24 hours and transfer to a tarred porcelain basin. Upon the citric acid, contained in a suitable vessel, pour the solution of ammonia, a little at a time, with constant stirring, till the crystals are dissolved and the acid accurately saturated. Then add this solution to the precipitate in the basin, and apply heat.

Stir the mixture constantly till perfectly dissolved, and evaporate the solution to 24 parts; then filter through paper. Finally pour the solution upon plates, dry the salt by a moderate heat, and keep it in well-closed bottles. The yield is a little more than 7½ parts. The salt is deliquescent, in the form of pale yellow- troy ounces sulphuric acid to 1/22 pint alcohol, ish green scales.