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ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 
The above is from the Paris Codex and contains about 
sixteen grains of ipecac, to the ounce, or about two and a half 
grains of emetia. To get clear of the gum and starch which 
make a syrup soon spoil, other recipes recommend alcoholic 
maceration, and subsequent evaporation in making the syrup 
to dissipate the spirit. 
As a better process than either of the above mentioned, I 
would suggest the following, being an improvement upon 
them : 
Take of ipecac, finely bruised, two ounces; place in a small 
displacement filter, and, to extract the soluble active princi- 
ples, pass over it weak alcohol, (15°,) lb.iss. Evaporate by a 
gentle heat to four ounces, and add four pints of simple syrup; 
then boil for a little while, that the syrup may be of proper 
consistence. 
There are several compound syrups of ipecac, combining 
its virtues with those of senega, bark, and opium. 
