4673. Compound Syrup of Stillingia (Queen's Root)

4673.     Compound Syrup of Stillingia (Queen's Root). Take queen's root and root of turkey corn, of each 2 pounds; blue flag-root, elder flowers, and pipsissewa leaves, of each 1 pound; coriander seed and prickly-ash berries of each 1/2 pound. Grind and mix the articles together; place the whole 8 pounds in a convenient vessel, cover them with alcohol of 76 per cent., and macerate for I three days. Then convey the whole to a 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 to the second solution after the evaporation of its alcohol, it will make 24 pints. To these two solutions combined, add 24 pounds of refined sugar and dissolve it by heat, carefully removing any scum which arises as it comes to the point of boiling; and if it exceeds 28 pints, evaporate to that point with constant stirring. Then remove from the fire, and, when nearly cold, add the 4 pints of reserved alcoholic tincture, and make 4 gallons of syrup, each pint of which will be equal to 4 ounces of the ingredients in medicinal virtue. (Am. Dis.)

4674. German Syrup of Rhubarb

4674.      German Syrup of Rhubarb. Take of alkaline fluid extract of rhubarb, 3 fluid ounces (see No. 4591 (Alkaline Fluid Extract of Rhubarb)); oil of cinnamon, 3 minims; sugar, 36 troy ounces. Mix the oil of cinnamon with the fluid extract, then add sufficient water to make the whole mixture weigh 20 troy ounces; in this dissolve the sugar with the aid of heat, and strain. The above formula for syrup of rhubarb, of the Prussian pharmacopoeia, is in officinal proportions, and yields a strictly officinal result.

4675. Alkaline Syrup Rhubarb

4675. Alkaline Syrup Rhubarb. Take of alkaline fluid extract of rhubarb, 6 fluid ounces (see No. 4591 (Alkaline Fluid Extract of Rhubarb)); oil of cinnamon, 3 minims; sugar, 36 troy ounces. Mix the oil of cinnamon with the fluid extract; then add sufficient water to make the whole mixture weigh 20 troy ounces; in this dissolve the sugar, with the aid of heat, and strain.

4676. Syrup of Guaiac

4676.      Syrup of Guaiac. Decidedly the most agreeable manner of administering guaiac in liquid form, so far as tried, is that of a syrup prepared as follows: Take of guaiac, 1 ounce; solution of potassa, 1/2 fluid ounce ; sugar, 14 ounces, troy. Macerate the guaiac in the solution of potassa mixed with 2 fluid ounces of water for 2 or 3 days; then percolate with water till 8 fluid ounces of liquid are obtained, in which dissolve the sugar.

4677. Procter's Syrup of Tolu

4677.    Procter's Syrup of Tolu. Balsam of tolu and carbonate of magnesia, of each, 1/2 ounce; alcohol, 1 fluid ounce; refined sugar, 21/2 pounds. Triturate the balsam of 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 which add the rest of the sugar, and dissolve by a very gentle heat. If required, strain the syrup, while hot, through a damp cotton-flannel bag. This forms a beautiful, clear syrup, free from turbidness, possessing a decided taste of the balsam, with most of its medicinal virtues.