SYRUP OF STILLINGIA (QUEEN'S ROOT)

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Source: The dispensatory and pharmacopoeia of North America and Great Britain [electronic resource] by Buchanan, John; Siggins, John J (1878), paragraph-7162.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• of Queen's root, three pounds
• Prickly ash berries, one and a half pounds
• Grind, and mix the articles together; place the whole four and a half pounds in a convenient vessel, cover them with alcohol of seventy-six per cent., and macerate for three days
• Then transfer the whole to a displacement apparatus, and gradually add alcohol until five pints of the alcoholic tincture have been obtained, which retain and set aside
• Then continue the percolation with water, until the liquor passes almost tasteless; add the sugar to it, and evaporate by gentle heat until thirteen pints are obtained, to which add the reserved five pints of alcoholic tincture, and make eighteen pints of syrup

Method as extracted

1. Take of Queen's root, three pounds ;
2. Grind, and mix the articles together; place the whole four and a half pounds in a convenient vessel, cover them with alcohol of seventy-six per cent., and macerate for three days.

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