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WILD  CHERRY  PASTILS. 
the  white  color  of  the  globules,  thus  making  them  pleasing  to 
the  eye. 
Note.— In  their  administration,  the  physician  should  be  very 
careful  to  note  their  progress.  One  is  the  dose  to  begin  with, 
which  may  be  gradually  increased,  according  to  the  nature  of 
the  case. 
Harrisburg,  Pa.,  Nov.  1858. 
WILD  CHERRY  PASTILS. 
Ustee?ned  Editor, — Below  I  give  a  formula  for  wild  cherry  lo- 
zenges as  I  have  prepared  them,  which  may  perhaps  be  accept- 
able to  readers  of  the  Journal.  I  think  they  will  be  found 
possessed  of  no  pretended  merit,  nor  need  they  be  regarded  as 
a  confection,  or  as  an  excuse  for  a  remedy,  as  lozenges  of  the 
kind  usually  are. 
R>. — Cortex  Pruni  Virginians,  ibj. 
Amygdalae  Dulcis,  ^iij. 
Ext.  Scillae  Acet.,  gij. 
Tinct  Tolu,  f.gi. 
Pulv.  Acaciae,  3iv. 
Aquae,  ) 
Sp.  Vin.  Beet,   \  m               ^ S" 
Reduce  the  wild  cherry  to  a  coarse  powder,  and  extract  by 
percolation,  with  a  sufficiency  of  the  alcoholic  menstruum ;  the 
resulting  alcoholic  tincture  evaporate  carefully  by  a  gentle  heat 
to  a  syrupy  consistence,  in  which  dissolve  the  ext.  squills.  Add 
the  tinct.  tolu  to  the  sugar,  intimately  mix,  expose  it  to  a 
moderate  heat  to  expel  the  alcohol ;  blanch  the  almonds,  and 
reduce  in  a  mortar  to  a  uniform  pasty  consistence ;  add  the 
gum  and  the  sugar,  to  which  the  balsam  tolu  has  previously 
been  added,  and  lastly,  with  this,  thoroughly  mix  the  ext,  of 
wild  cherry  and  squills,  and  water  sufficient  to  make  the  proper 
consistency.    Make  pastils,  each  to  contain  fifteen  grains. 
In  this  preparation  we  have  associated  with  the  squill  and 
tolu  all  the  valuable  constituents  of  the  wild  cherry  bark  in  a 
concentrated  form,  without  any  of  the  inert  matter.    In  the 
