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Procter's Syrup of Tolu

Bal- making in all 2 gallons syrup. Each pint sam of tolu and carbonate of magnesia, of will contain the virtue of 4 ounces of the ingreeach, ounce; alcohol, 1 fluid ounce; refined dients. (Am. Dis.) sugar, 2½ pounds. Triturate the balsam of 4684. Corvisart's Syrup of Pepsine. tolu and carbonate of magnesia together with 1 ounce of the sugar, gradually adding the alcohol, and then water enough to make the whole measure 12 fluid ounces. Filter, add water enough to make 1 pint of filtrate, to berry Syrup. Make a syrup of the followwhich add the rest of the sugar, and dissolve ing ingredients: 2 pints blackberry juice, 1 by a very gentle heat. If required, strain pound sugar, 1 pint brandy, 6 nutmegs 4685. Goddard's Aromatic Black- OXYMEL-ELIXIRS. grated, ounce bruised cinnamon, 2 drachms 4695. Honey of Borax. Mix together cloves, and 2 drachms allspice. The astrin- 60 grains borate of soda in fine powder and 1 gent properties of blackberry juice adapt it, troy ounce clarified honey. (U. S. Ph.) A particulary in combination with carminatives, common application in sore gums, mouth, and to the treatment of bowel complaints. lips, in thrush, salivation, &c.; also for sore water it forms an excellent skin and mouth wash or lotion. 4686. Compound Syrup of Assafe- nipples, excoriations, &c., a little being aptida. The disagreeable smell and taste of plied on the tip of the finger. Diluted with assafœtida prevents to a great extent the general use of this valuable drug. Mr.

Rambo, in the Journal of Pharmacy, proposes the following recipe, which unites the properties of assafœtida with those of wild cherry, clarified honey, 2 ounces; mix without heat and is free from above objections. Take 1 in a glass vessel. Used chiefly as a mouth ounce assafœtida and 2 ounces carbonate of wash, to perfume the breath, as honey of magnesia; rub these together, gradually add- roses. ing 1 pint infusion of wild cherry bark, and filter. Transfer the filtrate to a bottle, and dissolve in it by agitation 24 ounces white sugar. This preparation resembles the syrup of wild cherry in appearance.