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PHARMACEUTICAL NOTICES. 
We regret that Mr. C. is not satisfied with the present formula, 
which we thought has given almost universal satisfaction. 
Syrup of Citric Acid. Mr. Coggeshall recommends two 
drachms of the tincture of recent lemon peel to be used instead 
of four miliums of oil of lemon in the preparation of this syrup. 
Syrup of Ipecacuanha. The formula for this preparation has 
received a fearful blow from the critical pen of Mr. Coggeshall. 
He considers it faulty in language, in manipulation and in 
strength, and little "calculated to answer medical wants in 
regard to its importance." Mr. Coggeshall speaks of Kew 
York, where he says it is not probable that the present officinal 
syrup of ipecacuanha can ever supercede the efficient and 
reliable one we have so long been accustomed to, nor answer 
the wishes and expectations of the medical profession. I 
append the formula proposed in a paper read before the 
Board of Trustees in 1835, seven years before this syrup ap- 
peared in our Pharmacopoeia. I have not found cause to change 
it in any respect. It affords about three pints of syrup, which 
keeps well for years at the ordinary temperatures of the shop, 
and dwellings ; the proportion of sugar proves to be just what 
is wanted for a proper consistence without crystallization, and, 
as a medicine it gives entire satisfaction to the prescriber. It 
is as follows : 
Take of Ipecacuanha, bruised, six ounces (troy.) 
Alcohol, one pint and a half. 
"Water, one pint. 
Mix to form a tincture. Digest for ten days, filter and add one 
pint of water by way of displacement, evaporate in a water bath 
to two pints, add immediately, 
Refined sugar three pounds and a quarter (troy) 
and bring to the boiling point." 
This preparation when finished will therefore he four times the 
strength of that of the Pharmacopoeia, and decidedly alcoholic 
which is the reason it keeps well. Such a syrup w T ould undoubted- 
ly be more efficient in croup or other disease requiring the rapid 
emetic action of ipecacuanha ; but w T e may doubt the advan- 
tage of substituting it for the officinal syrup in a very large num- 
ber of cases where the diaphoretic and expectorant, action is needed. 
The syrup of the French Codex, (1837) and of the Edinburgh 
