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greater ratio than it exists in weak wine. As this is not 
yet an officinal preparation, I will suggest the propriety of 
making an addition to its ingredients, founded on an expe- 
rience of many years, by those who have employed the 
modified preparation; these are chimaphila and dulcamara, 
each in the ratio of one part to four of the sarsaparilla. 
The following is the formula, with the above proposed 
changes, viz. : 
Take of Sarsaparilla, ground, sixteen ounces, (troy.) 
Bitter sweet and Pipsissewa, in coarse powder, 
I of each four ounces. 
Liquorice root and Guaiacum wood, in coarse 
powder, of each two ounces. 
Sugar, four ounces. 
Alcohol, two fluid ounces. 
Diluted alcohol, seven pints. 
Water, a sufficient quantity. 
Oil of wintergreen and oil of sassafras, of each 
four minims. 
Mix the solid ingredients — pour over them in a suitable 
vessel five pints of diluted alcohol — allow them to macerate 
for one week, and remove the whole to a displacement ap- 
paratus, in such a manner that the fluid shall not pass too 
rapidly. Return the tincture several times, then displace the 
absorbed portion first with the remaining two pints of diluted 
alcohol, and afterwards with water, very gradually added, 
until eight pints of fluid have passed. Recover the alcohol 
by distillation to one-half, then by means of a water bath 
evaporate the residue to twelve fluid ounces, and add the 
sugar,and the two fluid ounces of alcohol in which the vola- 
tile oils have been dissolved; let the mixture stand with 
occasional agitation for four hours, and strain. 
It will be perceived that the mezereum has been omitted. 
The reasons for this are, that it gives an unpleasant acri- 
mony to the preparation, masks the taste of the sarsaparilla, 
and does not possess any decided virtues in the opinion of 
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