EXTRACT OF SENEGA AND SQUILL. 
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jART. LIII. — EXTRACT OF SENEGA AND SQUILL. 
By John H. Ecky. 
Take of Senega and Squill in coarse powder each two 
pounds. Pour on sufficient diluted alcohol to cover them, 
and macerate in a covered vessel forty eight hours. Trans- 
fer to the displacement funnel, and add diluted alcohol, 
until it passes tasteless. Distil off the alcohol, and evapo- 
rate in a water bath to four pounds. This extract contains 
all the active properties of the Senega and Squill, and it 
appears to me, to be the best preparation that can be used 
for making the compound Honey of Squill, known as Cox's 
Hive Syrup, for which I give the following formula, 
{&. Ext. Senega and Squill, 1 lb. 
Mel Despumat. 6 lb. 
Mix the extract with the honey at a temperature of 160 
Fahr., and to every pint of this add sixteen grains of Tartar 
Emetic. The result is a preparation always of the same 
strength, but much stronger than any that can be made by 
the old formulas, and one that will not ferment. 
Note. A specimen of this extract was presented with 
the accompanying communication, at the pharmaceutical 
meeting of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. It was 
of soft pulpy consistence, of a dark shining colour, and 
highly endowed with the sensible properties of the ingre- 
dients. Several formulae for preparing Hive Syrup, have 
been from time to time devised. That now contained in 
the United States Pharmacopoeia, would seem, from ample 
experience so far, to meet all the requisitions proposed in its 
formation, and may be regarded as complete as it can be 
made, to furnish an elegant preparation. At first sight, 
