ESSENCE OR CONCENTRATED INFUSION OF SENNA

Historical preparation record

This formula was extracted from a rights-cleared historical primary source and is preserved as an archival record. Historical terminology, identity, strength and safety require modern interpretation.

Source: Magnacopia : a chemico-pharmaceutical library of useful and profitable information for the practitioner, chemist and druggist, surgeon-dentist, &c. &c. ; containing several hundred new forms, with comments and annotations on the pharmacopoeia, together with a variety of other information by Bateman, William; University of Leeds. Library (1839), paragraph-382.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• twenty-one ounces of senna leaves, fourteen drachms of sliced ginger, one ounce of bruised cloves, and seven pints of boiling- water
• Macerate twenty-four hours, strain the liquor, and evaporate till reduced to two pints
• Five minutes before removing the evaporating pan from the fire, add four ounces of spirit of wine

Method as extracted

1. Take twenty-one ounces of senna leaves, fourteen drachms of sliced ginger, one ounce of bruised cloves, and seven pints of boiling- water.
2. Macerate twenty-four hours, strain the liquor, and evaporate till reduced to two pints.

Automated publication scope

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