Macerate the garlic with 10 ounces of the acetic
acid in a glass vessel 4 days, and express the liquid.
Then mix the residue with the remainder of the
acid and again express until sufficient liquid has
been obtained to make the whole, when filtered,
measure a pint ; lastly introduce the sugar into a
two-pint bottle, pour upon it the filtered liquid and
agitate until it is dissolved. The syrup is given in
chronic catarrhal affections of the lungs and is par-
ticularly beneficial in infantile cases, by the
stimulus which it affords to the nervous system.
A tea-spoonful may be given for a dose to a child
I year old, repeated every i, 2, or 3 hours and
persisted in for a length of time. It is also good
in recent coughs and colds, and the dose may be
much increased for an adult, and day by day the
dose may be increased in any case.
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COMPOUND SPIRITS OF JUNIPER.
Oil of juniper lyi drams.
Oil of caraway lo drops.
Oil of fennel lO drops.
Dilute alcohol 8 pints.✪ Compound Spirits of Juniper
Dissolve the oils in the dilute alcohol.
This spirit is a useful addition to diuretic infu-
sions and mixtures in debilitated cases of dropsy.
Dose, from 2 to 4 drams every 3 or 4 hours.
ESS. LEMON.
Oil lemon 2 ounces.
Lemon peel freshly grated i ounce.
Strong alcohol 2 pints.✪ Ess. Lemon
Dissolve the oil in the alcohol and add the peel,
and let it macerate 24 hours. Filter through
paper. Used only as flavoring.
SYRUP OF ALMOND.
Sweet almonds 12 ounces.
Bitter almonds 4 ounces.✪ Syrup of Almond
Sugar refined in coarse powder 72 ounces.
Water 3 pints.
Having blanched the almonds, rub them in a
mortar to a very fine paste, adding during the
trituration 3 ounces of water and 12 of sugar. Mix
the paste with the remainder (thoroughly) of the
water, strain with strong expression, add to the
strained liquid the remainder of the sugar and
dissolve it with the aid of gentle heat. Lastly strain
the solution through muslin, and having allowed
it to cool, keep it in well stopped bottles in a cool
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place. This is an excellent and elegant syrup. It
is demulcent, nutritive and in consequence of the
hydrocyanic acid of the bitter almonds somewhat
sedative. It is said to impair greatly the odor of
musk and assafetida when mixed with them.
It may be added to cough mixtures or used
in flavoring drinks in complaints of the chest.
The dose is i to 2 drams every 3 or 4 hours.
SYRUP OF ORANGE PEEL.
Sweet orange peel recently dried 2 ounces.
Carbonate of magnesia one-half ounce.
Sugar in coarse powder, refined, 28 ounces.
Alcohol, a sufficient quantity.
Water, a sufficient quantity✪ Syrup of Orange Peel.
Moisten the orange peel with one-half an ounce
of alcohol, introduce it into a conical percolator,
and pour alcohol upon it until 6 ounces of the
tincture has passed. Evaporate this at a tempera-
ture not exceeding 120° to 2 ounces. Add the
carbonate of magnesia and i ounce of the sugar,
and rub them together, gradually adding half a
pint of water during the trituration. Then filter,
and, having added sufficient water to make the
liquid measure a pint, dissolve in it the remainder
of the sugar with the aid of a gentle heat, and
strain.
The syrup has an agreeable flavor, for which
alone it is employed. Combined with other mix-
tures to make the taste more agreeable is its great
use. For cough mixtures of different kinds, and for
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AI-modernized reading of the original text
Macerate the garlic with 10 ounces of the acetic acid in a glass vessel 4 days, and express the liquid. Then mix the residue with the remainder of the acid and again express until sufficient liquid has been obtained to make the whole, when filtered, measure a pint ; lastly introduce the sugar into a two-pint bottle, pour upon it the filtered liquid and agitate until it is dissolved. The syrup is given in chronic catarrhal affections of the lungs and is particularly beneficial in infantile cases, by the stimulus which it affords to the nervous system. A tea-spoonful may be given for a dose to a child I year old, repeated every i, 2, or 3 hours and persisted in for a length of time. It is also good in recent coughs and colds, and the dose may be much increased for an adult, and day by day the dose may be increased in any case.
COMPOUND SPIRITS OF JUNIPER.
Oil of juniper lyi drams.
Oil of caraway lo drops.
Oil of fennel lO drops.
Dilute alcohol 8 pints.
Dissolve the oils in the dilute alcohol.
This spirit is a useful addition to diuretic infusions and mixtures in debilitated cases of dropsy. Dose, from 2 to 4 drams every 3 or 4 hours.
ESS. LEMON.
Oil lemon 2 ounces.
Lemon peel freshly grated i ounce.
Strong alcohol 2 pints.
Dissolve the oil in the alcohol and add the peel, and let it macerate 24 hours. Filter through paper. Used only as flavoring.
SYRUP OF ALMOND.
Sweet almonds 12 ounces.
Bitter almonds 4 ounces.
Sugar refined in coarse powder 72 ounces.
Water 3 pints.
Having blanched the almonds, rub them in a mortar to a very fine paste, adding during the trituration 3 ounces of water and 12 of sugar. Mix the paste with the remainder (thoroughly) of the water, strain with strong expression, add to the strained liquid the remainder of the sugar and dissolve it with the aid of gentle heat. Lastly strain the solution through muslin, and having allowed it to cool, keep it in well stopped bottles in a cool
place. This is an excellent and elegant syrup. It is demulcent, nutritive and in consequence of the hydrocyanic acid of the bitter almonds somewhat sedative. It is said to impair greatly the odor of musk and assafetida when mixed with them. It may be added to cough mixtures or used in flavoring drinks in complaints of the chest. The dose is i to 2 drams every 3 or 4 hours.
SYRUP OF ORANGE PEEL.
Sweet orange peel recently dried 2 ounces.
Carbonate of magnesia one-half ounce.
Sugar in coarse powder, refined, 28 ounces.
Alcohol, a sufficient quantity.
Water, a sufficient quantity.
Moisten the orange peel with one-half an ounce of alcohol, introduce it into a conical percolator, and pour alcohol upon it until 6 ounces of the tincture has passed. Evaporate this at a temperature not exceeding 120° to 2 ounces. Add the carbonate of magnesia and i ounce of the sugar, and rub them together, gradually adding half a pint of water during the trituration. Then filter, and, having added sufficient water to make the liquid measure a pint, dissolve in it the remainder of the sugar with the aid of a gentle heat, and strain.
The syrup has an agreeable flavor, for which alone it is employed. Combined with other mixtures to make the taste more agreeable is its great use. For cough mixtures of different kinds, and for
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