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PHARMACEUTICAL NOTICES. 
many practitioners. The dose of this preparation is a tea- 
spoonful taken in any convenient vehicle. 
Fluid Extract of Rhubarb. — It has been objected to 
the formula for this preparation, published in Vol. 19, p. 
182 of this Journal, that owing to the large proportion of 
matter extracted, the addition of eight ounces of sugar gives 
too thick a consistence to the fluid extract, rendering it 
inconvenient for dispensing and administering in cold 
weather. The writer has not found this objection so forcible 
as some others have, but he will propose the following 
modification of the published formula, which he believes 
will overcome the objections stated, at the same time that 
the rhubarb strength of the preparation will not be inter- 
fered with. It consists in substituting one fluid ounce of 
tincture of ginger for two ounces of the sugar, thus: 
Take of Rhubarb, eight ounces, (troy.) 
Sugar in powder, two ounces. 
Diluted alcohol, two pints. 
Tincture of ginger, one fluid ounce. 
Reduce the rhubarb to coarse powder, mix it with its bulk 
of sand, moisten with diluted alcohol, and after the drug 
has become swollen by maceration for an hour, remove it 
to a suitable displacer, and add diluted alcohol slowly until 
two pints of tincture have passed. Evaporate this in a 
water bath to six fluid ounces, add the sugar and finally 
the tincture of ginger. 
The increased proportion of ginger will supersede the 
necessity of adding the volatile oils. If tincture of ginger 
is objected to, alcohol will accomplish the end equally well. 
Wine of Tar, Tar Beer. — A formula for this prepara- 
tion was published in the 14th volume of this Journal, (p. 
281,) by the late Augustine Duhamel, in which a quart of 
bran, a pint of tar, half a pint of honey and three quarts of 
water, are mixed together in an earthen pipkin, allowed 
