Syrup of Poppies {Syrupus Papaveris)

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Source: Pharmacopœia of India [electronic resource] : prepared under the authority of Her Majesty's Secretary of State for India in council by Waring, Edward John, 1819-1891; University of Glasgow. Library (1868), paragraph-310.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• of Poppy Capsules, dried, freed from the seeds and coarsely powdered, thirty-six ounces
• Refined Sugar, four pounds
• Mix the poppy cap- sules with four pints of the water, and infuse for twenty-four hours, stirriug them frequently; then pack them in a percolator, a,nd, adding more of the water, allow the liquor slowly to pass until _ about two gallons have been collected, or the poppies are exhausted
• Evaporate the liquor by a water bath PAPAVEEACEiE. until it is reduced to three pints
• Distil off the spirit, evaporate the re- maining liquor to two pints, and then add the sugar
• The product should weigh six pounds and a half, and should have the specific gravity 1-320
• It has the follow- ing characters : irregular lumps, weighing from four ounces to two pounds, enveloped in poppy leaves, and generally covered with the chaffy, seed-like fruits of a species of Kumex

Method as extracted

1. Take of Poppy Capsules, dried, freed from the seeds and coarsely powdered, thirty-six ounces ;
2. Mix the poppy cap- sules with four pints of the water, and infuse for twenty-four hours, stirriug them frequently; then pack them in a percolator, a,nd, adding more of the water, allow the liquor slowly to pass until _ about two gallons have been collected, or the poppies are exhausted.
3. Distil off the spirit, evaporate the re- maining liquor to two pints, and then add the sugar.

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