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Moore's Syrup of Tar

Take of tar (strained), 1 ounce (troy); pulverized sugar (refined), 12 ounces; carbonate of magnesia, 3 ounces, rubbed to powder on a sieve; alcohol, 2 fluid ounces. Mix the alcohol with 6 fluid ounces of water, rub the tar in a moruntil the liquor passes almost tasteless, add the sugar to it, and evaporate by gentle heat until 13 pints are obtained, to which add the reserved 5 pints of alcoholic tincture, and make 18 pints of syrup. It may be flavored with a sufficient quantity of the essence of sassafras if required. (Am. Dis). 1 MEDICATED SYRUPS. 4673. Compound Syrup of Stillingia 'the syrup, while hot, through a damp cotton- (Queen's Root). Take queen's root and flannel bag. This forms a beautiful, clear root of turkey corn, of each 2 pounds; blue syrup, free from turbidness, possessing a deflag-root, elder flowers, and pipsissewa leaves, cided taste of the balsam, with most of its of each 1 pound; coriander seed and prickly- medicinal virtues. ash berries of each pound. Grind and mix 4678. Syrup of Chamomile. Take of the articles together; place the whole 8 fluid extract of chamomile, 4 ounces; syrup, pounds in a convenient vessel, cover them 12 ounces. Mix with the syrup moderately with alcohol of 76 per cent., and macerate for warm, and strain through flannel. The prethree days. Then convey the whole to a paration is as clear as that made from the displacement apparatus, and gradually add alcohol until 4 pints of the alcoholic tincture have been obtained, which retain and set aside. Then continue the percolation with water, and of this second solution reserve so much as contains a sensible amount of spirit, and distill or evaporate the alcohol from it.

Continue the displacement by water until the solution obtained is almost tasteless, and boil down this weaker infusion until, when added flowers, with the convenience of being made at will. The dose is one-fourth that of the fluid extract, or from 2 to 4 drachms.

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