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Source: The dispensatory of the United States of America by Wood, George B. (George Bacon), 1797-1879 (1849), materia-424-2.
Ingredients or materials as extracted
- Lactuca: To obtain these principles, 80 parts of Jactucarium, in fine powder, were tritu- rated with 80 of pure cold diluted sulphuric acid, and then mixed with 400 parts of al- cohol of 0°851; the liquor was filtered, shaken with hydrate of lime till it yielded no precipitate with baryta-water or oxalate of potassa, then decolorized with pure animal charcoal and evaporated; the brown tenacious mass thus obtained (alcoholic e
Method as extracted
- Grind according to the source passage: To obtain these principles, 80 parts of Jactucarium, in fine powder, were tritu- rated with 80 of pure cold diluted sulphuric acid, and then mixed with 400 parts of al- cohol of 0°851; the liquor was filtered, shaken with hydrate of lime till it yielded no precipitate with baryta-water or oxalate of potassa, then decolorized with pure animal charcoal and evaporated; the brown tenacious mass thus obtained (alcoholic extract) was treated with boiling water, which left behind a viscid substance; the aqueous solu- tion was treated with animal charcoal, and on being evaporated yielded a mixture of lactucic acid and lactucin; these were separated by dissolving the mixture in boiling water, which on cooling deposited the latter in white crystalline scales, and gave up the former upon. subsequent evaporation. .Lactucic acid is of difficult crystallization, light- yellow, strongly bitter, without sour taste, of an acid
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Primary and supporting references
- The dispensatory of the United States of America — The dispensatory of the United States of AmericaPrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at materia-424-2.