and add the Sugar in the manner directed for Simple Syrup.’ Zond

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Historical use wording: Simple Syrup.’ Zond

Source: The dispensatory of the United States of America by Wood, George B. (George Bacon), 1797-1879 (1836), paragraph-13356.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• of the fresh Juice of Buckthorn Berries fwo pints and a half
• Ginger Root, sliced, Pimento Berries, in powder, each, three drachms
• of Rhubarb, bruised, two ounces
• Sugar (refined } two pounds

Method as extracted

1. Take of the fresh Juice of Buckthorn Berries fwo pints and a half;
2. Add the Ginger d Pimento to ten ounces of the clear Juice, macerate for twenty-four hours, and filter.
3. Boil down the remaining Juice to a pint, mix the liquors, and form a syrup.” Dub. ‘4 3 hee faa Ce The syrup. of buckthorn is a brisk cathartic, but having an unpleasant taste, and being apt to gripe violently, is very seldom employed. ‘The dose is from half a fluidounce to a fluidounce. ‘The patient should drink freely of gruel or other demulcent beverage during its operation.
4. Take of Rhubarb, bruised, two ounces;
5. Macerate the Rhubarb in the Watsetor twenty- four hours, and strain; then add the Sugar, and boil for a short time so as to form a syrup.” U.S, * a | This is a mild cathartic, adapted to the cases of infants, to whom it may be given in the dose of one or*two fluidrachms. : ae It has been proposed to form the syrup of rhubarb in thé manner directed in the U.S.

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