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Shinn's Bitter Wine of Iron

4703. Squibb's Liquor of Iodide of Take of sulphate of cinchona, 6 drachms; Iron. Take of iodine, 2 ounces; iron-wire, sulphate of quinia, 2 drachms; citrate of iron, 5 drachms; sugar, 12 ounces. Make this 4 ounces; citric acid, 1 ounce; sherry wine, sugar into syrup by boiling it up with 8 fluid 4 pints; alcohol, 1 pint; orange syrup, 1 ounces distilled water, and filtering through pint. Dissolve the sulphates and citric acid paper into a flask marked at the point up to in 14 pints of hot water, and the citrate of which it holds 20 fluid ounces. Meanwhile iron in 1/2 pint of the same; mix the solutions, shake the iodine and iron with 3 fluid ounces and add the other ingredients. water in a small flask until a clear green 4708. Aromatic Wine of Iron. Diliquid results. Add to this a small portion of gest 1 ounce iron filings for 2 or 3 days in 3 the syrup, and filter the whole through a new filter into the syrup, keeping but a small portion of the solution in the filter at a time. Drain, but do not wash the filter; and, finally, add to the liquid in the bottle enough distilled water to make up 20 fluid ounces. Shake it well, and keep it in small bottles, filled and well stoppered.