4645. Chemical Food

4645.      Chemical Food. This is prepared by the same formula as Professor Parrish's (see No. 4644 (Compound Syrup of Phosphate of Iron)), omitting the cochineal and muriatic acid, and with this modification was adopted, as well as the two following receipts, by the Newark Pharmaceutical Association.

4646. Compound Syrup of Hypo-phosphites and Iron

4646.      Compound Syrup of Hypo-phosphites and Iron. Dissolve 256 grains each of the hypophosphites of soda, lime, and potassa, and 126 grains hypophosphite of iron, in 12 ounces water, by means of a water-bath. Filter, and add sufficient water to make up for the evaporation. Add 18 ounces sugar by gentle heat, to make 21 fluid ounces syrup. Each fluid ounce contains 12 grains each of the hypophosphites of soda, lime, and potassa, and 6 grains hypophosphite of iron. (Newark P. A.)

4647. Compound Syrup of Hypophosphites

4647.      Compound Syrup of Hypophosphites. Prepared by the same formula as the last, omitting the iron. (Newark P. A.)

4648. Aitken's Syrup of Iron, Quinia, and Strychnia

4648.   Aitken's Syrup of Iron, Quinia, and Strychnia. Dissolve 5 drachms sulphate of iron in 1 ounce of boiling water, and 1 ounce phosphate of soda in 2 ounces of the same. Mix the solutions and wash the precipitates on strainers until the washings are tasteless; dissolve 192 grains sulphate of quinia with sufficient sulphuric acid in 2 ounces of water, precipitate the clear solution by a very slight excess of water of ammonia, collect and carefully wash it. Dissolve both precipitates, and also 6 grains strychnia, in 14 ounces dilute phosphoric acid, then add 14 ounces white sugar, and dissolve the whole without heat. This syrup contains about one grain of phosphate of strychnia in each drachm. The dose might therefore be about a tea-spoonful 3 times a day. It is perfectly miscible with water, has a strongly styptic and chalybeate taste, and an after-taste of quinia. It is employed mainly as a preparative to the use of cod-liver oil, and in certain cases as a concomitant to this food substitute in scrofulous diseases, in cases of delicate children, with equal parts of the phosphatic syrup known as chemical food.

4649. Santonate of Soda

4649.     Santonate of Soda. Put into a flask, 2 ounces santoninic acid, 4 fluid ounces pure caustic soda lye, and 12 fluid ounces distilled water. Heat the flask in a sand-bath or over a stove to 70° or 80° Fahr., until the santonine solution is complete; which usually requires about half an hour; then remove from the fire, and, when cold, it is conveniently evaporated.

4650. Syrup of Santonate of Soda

4650.     Syrup of Santonate of Soda. • Boil 18 fluid ounces syrup until it marks 32°

Baumé; let it cool a few minutes, then add 30 grains santonate of soda dissolved in 1 ounce distilled water. You obtain 18 fluid ounces of a transparent syrup, without a bitter taste, of 35° when cold. Each fluid ounce contains one grain of santonine. This syrup is an excellent vermifuge.