Syrup of Sarsaparilla root

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Source: Observations, chemical and practical, on the Dublin Pharmacopoeia by Barker, F. n 89605289; Montgomery, Wm. F (1830), monograph-offset-740034-6.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• Sarsaparilla Root: place, except the juice of red cabbage have been used, which fraud is a very harmless one

Method as extracted

1. Mix according to the source passage: Boullay has lately obtained from the viola odorata a principle possessing similar proper¬ ties, which has been named violine ; this may account for any medicinal activity which this syrup may be found to possess : its colour constitutes its chief value, and this is often counterfeited, but the fraud is very easily detected by adding to the suspected syrup a very small quantity of acid or alkali, of both of which it is a very delicate test: if the syrup be genuine its blue colour will be changed by the acid to red, and by the alkali to green ; but if it be counterfeit these changes will not take place, except the juice of red cabbage have been used, which fraud is a very harmless one.

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