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ROOT FOUND IN SENEGA. 
Macerate the gunjah, in two gallons of the spirit, for seven 
days, then strain off, and add one gallon more of the spirit: 
let this stand four days and strain ; mix the two tinctures 
and filter ; then boil the hemp in the remaining two gallons 
of spirit, for fifteen minutes and filter whilst hot. Let all 
the mixtures be united, then distil off the spirit, and evapo- 
rate the remainder in a water bath, to the consistence of an 
extract, (product 12 oz.) 
The tincture is prepared by dissolving three grains of 
the extract in one drachm of proof spirit. 
Dose — From one to ten, or even twenty grains. Small 
doses are recommended to commence with. 
ART. LIX. — REPORT ON A ROOT FOUND IN SENEGA. 
Read at the Pharmaceutical Meeting, November 6, 1843. 
The Committee having in charge the investigation of an 
article introduced into the market, associated with Senega 
to an extent of 33 per cent, and calculated, from its resem- 
blance in some of its external characters to the genuine 
root, to deceive, beg leave to Report as follows: — 
This adulteration separated from the Senega, is in long, 
slender, tapering roots, terminating in a knotty head, to 
which are attached numerous small fibres. It is branched 
and tortuous like Senega. The epidermis is corrugated, 
transversely cracked, and of a reddish brown color: it is 
also friable, and possesses a strong bitter taste; is entirely 
without acridity, and has no smell. The central portion is 
ligneous, reddish white, and tasteless. As all the Polygalae 
have a more or less acrid taste, this cannot be one of them, 
