Powder of Sy- denham bark

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Source: The London dispensatory [electronic resource] : containing, I. The elements of pharmacy; II. The botanical description, natural history,chemical analysis, and medicinal properties, of the substances of the materia medica; III. The pharmaceutical preparations and compositions of the pharmacopoeiasof the London, the Edinburgh, and the Dublin colleges of physicians : the whole forming a practical synopsis of materia medica, pharmacy, and therapeutics, illustrated with many useful tables and copper- by Thomson, Anthony Todd, 1778-1849; University of Glasgow. Library; University of Glasgow. Library (1822), materia-246-3.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• Sy- denham 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. i Muds conceiving thai fermentation is the bast method for. extracting tha 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

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. i Muds conceiving thai fermentation is the bast method for. extracting tha 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 convalescents, weakened by protracted intermittents, with the best effects.

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