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ON SYRUP OF SARSAPARILLA. 
spectful consideration, in a practical point of view, than Dr. 
Hancock, of the London Medico-Botanical Society. His 
residence in the country producing the genuine sarsaparilla, 
gave him many opportunities of studying its character, and 
after much apparent attention to the subject, he arrives at 
the conclusion, that it is essential to employ a vinous liquor 
to extract the strength of the root. The established custom 
of the country, as regards the preparations of sarsaparilla, is 
to use a vinous or fermented one. From the testimony of 
Dr. Hancock, the powerfully curative influence of the Span- 
ish Ci Jarave," or fermented infusion, would seem to estab- 
lish the efficacy of the solvent, though, perhaps, such a mode 
of preparation would illy accord with the more refined pro- 
cesses of the pharmaceutic art, of our day and time. 
