Powder of Yellow Cinchona Bark

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: A pharmacopoeia including the outlines of materia medica and therapeutics for the use of practitioners and students of veterinary medicine by Tuson, Richard V (1874), monograph-offset-350202-4.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• Yellow Cinchona Bark: TINCTURA MYRRHiE TINCTUEE OF MYEEH Take of — Myrrh, in coarse powder ... Eectified Spirit 1 pint. * This preparation is five times as strong as the Tinctura lodi of the ‘ British Pharmacopoeia.’ 270 VETERINAEY PHARMACOPGEIA Macerate tlie myrrli for forty -eight hours in fifteen fluid ounces of the spirit, in a closed vessel, agitating occasion- ally ; then transfer to a percolator, and, when the fluid ceases to pass,

Method as extracted

1. Grind according to the source passage: TINCTURA MYRRHiE TINCTUEE OF MYEEH Take of — Myrrh, in coarse powder ... Eectified Spirit 1 pint. * This preparation is five times as strong as the Tinctura lodi of the ‘ British Pharmacopoeia.’ 270 VETERINAEY PHARMACOPGEIA Macerate tlie myrrli for forty -eight hours in fifteen fluid ounces of the spirit, in a closed vessel, agitating occasion- ally ; then transfer to a percolator, and, when the fluid ceases to pass, continue the percolation with the remauiing five ounces of spirit. Afterwards subject the contents of the percolator to x^i’essure, filter the product, mix the liquids, and add sufficient rectified spirit to make one pmt.

Automated publication scope

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