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SELECTED ARTICLES. 
" 4th. To direct in their composition articles which are 
easily procured genuine, and of a price such as not to hold 
out a temptation to alter or adulterate the medicine." 
The attention of the Committee was confined to the first 
eight recipes which follow: that for Balsam of Honey not 
heing among the number, was subsequently added to them by 
the New York College of Pharmacy, and was also published 
in this Journal, (Vol. VI., p. 61.) 
1. Hooper's Female Pills. 
These pills were originally designed, and are constantly 
used as cathartic and emmenagogue. The different recipes 
vary so much that aloes is the only article contained in them 
all. The committee have selected the Extract of Hellebore, 
the Sulphate of Iron and the Myrrh, as the best emmena- 
gogues; Aloes as the cathartic basis, Ginger and Canella alba 
as aromatic correctives, and Soap as an adjuvant, and affording 
an eligible form. The fetid gums which are contained in 
many of the recipes are rejected as being antispasmodic 
rather than emmenagogue; the Extract of Savin as difficult to 
procure, and as necessarily injured in its preparation ; the Ivory 
black as a clumsy and barbarous ingredient; and the remain- 
ing articles in the tables, as either inert or superfluous. The 
following recipe is submitted for the consideration of the 
trustees: 
RECIPE. 
Aloes Barbadensis, 
gviij. 
400 
Ferri Sulphatis Exsiccati, 
3iss. 
Vel Ferri Sulphatis crystal, 
200 
Extracti Hellebori Nigri, 
Si 
100 
Myrrhae, 
m- 
100 
Saponis, 
100 
Canellae in pulverem tritae, 
s- 
50 
Zingiberis in pulverem tritae, 
s- 
50 
1000 parts. 
