DECOCTUM SARSAPARILLA COMPOSITUM

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Source: The dispensatory of the United States of America by Wood, George B. (George Bacon), 1797-1879 (1849), paragraph-8691.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• “Take of Decoction of Sarsaparilla, boiling hot, four pints [Imperial mea- sure]
• "Mezereon three drachms
• The Dublin College takes four pints of the decoction, an ounce, each, of sassafras, guaiacum wood, and liquorice root, and three drachms of mezereon, and proceeds as above. - The process of the U.S
• Boil to thirty pounds, and near the end of the boiling add of aniseed, fennel-seed, each, half an ounce, senna three ounces, liquorice root an ounce and a half
• To the residue add six ounces of sarsaparilla and ninety pounds of water
• Boil to thirty pounds, and near the end add lemon-peel, cinnamon, cardamom, liquorice, of each, three drachms

Method as extracted

1. Boil for-a quarter of an hour, and strain.” Lond.
2. Boil to thirty pounds, and near the end of the boiling add of aniseed, fennel-seed, each, half an ounce, senna three ounces, liquorice root an ounce and a half.
3. Put aside the liquor under the name of THE STRONG DECOCTION.
4. Boil to thirty pounds, and near the end add lemon-peel, cinnamon, cardamom, liquorice, of each, three drachms.
5. Strain, and set aside the liquor under the name of THE WEAK DECOCTION.” Mereury was detected by Wiggers in this decoction in very small proportion.

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