4714. Wine of Wild Cherry Bark

4714.    Wine of Wild Cherry Bark. Professor Parrish gives the following formula in his " Elements of Pharmacy." Alcoholic extract (from 24 ounces) of wild cherry hark, 51/2 ounces ; sweet almonds, 3 ounces; water, 1 pint; and cherry wine, 2 pints. Beat the almonds with the water to a paste, rub down the extract with 1/2 pint of the wine, and mix the two liquids in a bottle of the capacity of 3 pints, stop it closely, and permit it to stand for 3 days, with occasional agitation; then add the remainder of the wine, allow it to stand a week, and filter. By this mode of proceeding, opportunity is afforded for the development of the hydrocyanic acid before the menstruum is made so alcoholic as to retard the reaction which favors its formation. Thus made, wine of wild cherry bark is a transparent, wine-red liquid, having an astringent bitter-almond taste and odor. The dose of this preparation as a tonic and sedative is a tea-spoonful.

4715. Ferrated Wine of Wild Cherry

4715.   Ferrated Wine of Wild Cherry. Exhaust 12 ounces bruised wild cherry bark of its tonic principles with alcohol, and carefully evaporate the alcoholic tincture so as to expel the alcohol; add 6 ounces water and $ ounce hydrated sesquioxide of iron. Macerate this with occasional agitation for 6 hours, and filter into a bottle containing an emulsion of 2 ounces sweet almonds in 6 ounces water. When reaction has ceased, filter again, and add 12 ounces white sugar, and for every ounce thus prepared, add 24 grains citrate of iron, previously dissolved in water sufficient to make the whole fluid extract measure 24 fluid ounces. The addition of iron to the bitter principle and hydrocyanic acid of the simple extract of wild cherry should render it much more efficient as a tonic, and greatly add to the value of the preparation.

4716. Ferrated Elixir of Wild Cherry

4716.   Ferrated Elixir of Wild Cherry. Take of fluid extract of wild cherry bark, 4 fluid ounces; curacoa cordial, 11 fluid ounces; pyrophosphate of iron, 256 grains; boiling water, 1 fluid ounce. Mix the fluid extract with the curaçao cordial. Dissolve the pyrophosphate of iron in the boiling water, and mix all together. Dose, a tea-spoonful 3 times daily.

4717. Elixir de Garus

4717.    Elixir de Garus. Digest 2 parts by weight each of aloes and myrrh, and 1 part Spanish saffron, in 24 parts of 6O per cent, alcohol, and 2 of diluted sulphuric acid. Filter.

Or: Digest for some hours 3 parts by weight each of aloes and myrrh, and 2 parts each of nutmegs and cloves, in 576 parts rectified spirit diluted with an equal weight of water. Then add 864 parts orange-flower syrup, 192 parts orange-flower water and 2 each of cochineal and Spanish saffron. Filter. Dose of either of the above preparations. 1 tea-spoonful 3 or 4 times a day. (Prussian Ph.)

4718. Elixir of Pepsine

4718.    Elixir of Pepsine. Dissolve 1 part by weight starchy pepsine in 8 parts water ; filter the solution, and add 3 parts elixir of garus and 4 parts syrup of cherries. Dose, 1, 2 or 3 table-spoonfuls twice during the meals.