Powder of Preparations and Compositions bark

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Source: The London dispensatory, containing: I, the elements of pharmacy; II, the botanical description ... and medicinal properties, of the substances of the materia medica; III, the pharmaceutical preparations and compositions of the pharmacopoeias of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Colleges of Physicians by Thomson, Anthony Todd, 1778-1849 (1830), materia-274-3.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• Preparations and Compositions bark: A less injurious but equally fraudulent admixture is the powder of bark which has been employed in making the extract; and of very inferior bark, much of which, we have been informed, is imported for no other purpose, 2 In the Schedion, an Italian handbill of directions for using the bark, published in 1649, “ two drachms of the bark, finely powdered and infused in good white wine, three hours before the expected par

Method as extracted

1. Grind according to the source passage: A less injurious but equally fraudulent admixture is the powder of bark which has been employed in making the extract; and of very inferior bark, much of which, we have been informed, is imported for no other purpose, 2 In the Schedion, an Italian handbill of directions for using the bark, published in 1649, “ two drachms of the bark, finely powdered and infused in good white wine, three hours before the expected paroxysm,”’ are ordered to be taken as soon as the slightest symptom of the attack appears. Mutis, conceiving that fermentation is the best method for extracting the active part of cinchona, has proposed to make a beer of it, by fermenting one part of the bark in powder with eight parts of honey or sugar, and 80 or 100 of water. And Alibert having persuaded a brewer to make some beer with cinchona, administered it to conyalescents, weakened by protracted intermittents, with the best effects. part u.

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