ON  MAGNOLIA  GLAUCA. 
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Thus  made,  fluid  extract  of  Ipecacuanha  is  a  dark  reddish 
brown  liquid  having  the  odor  of  Ipecacuanha,  well  marked,  after 
standing  awhile,  and  mixes  with  water  and  syrup  to  form  a 
transparent  solution.  If  the  process  is  carefully  conducted  it  ful- 
ly represents  the  drug,  as  Pereira  states  that  the  waxy  matter 
separated  from  the  tincture  is  not  possessed  of  emetic  properties. 
Syrup  of  Ipecacuanha, 
Take  of  Fluid  Extract  of  Ipecacuanha,  a  fluidounce, 
Simple  syrup,  thirty-one  fluidounces. 
Mix  them. 
Thus  prepared  syrup  of  ipecac  has  a  fine  bright  color,  is  trans- 
parent, and  may  be  made  without  heat,  and,  in  fact,  extempo- 
raneously. It  may  be  well  to  mention  that  in  the  forthcoming 
Pharmacopoeia  it  has  been  proposed  to  increase  the  strength 
of  this  preparation  to  to  Oj,  which  is  double  the  present 
strength,  and  equal  to  that  of  the  wine.  This  will  be  a  great  im- 
provement, and  to  make  such  syrup  it  will  be  simply  necessary  to 
mix  a  fluid  ounce  of  this  fluid  extract,  and  fifteen  fluid  ounces 
of  simple  syrup. 
ON  MAGNOLIA  GLAUCA. 
By  William  D.  Harrison. 
(Extracted  from  an  Inaugural  Essay.) 
This  species  of  Magnolia  is  a  small  tree,  usually  from  ten  to 
thirty  feet  high  in  this  latitude,  and  in  the  Southern  States 
attains  the  height  of  forty  feet.  It  is  noticed  in  Massachusetts, 
but  becomes  more  abundant  in  New  Jersey  and  Maryland,  and 
very  abundant  in  Florida  and  Louisiana.  It  is  called  by  the 
names,  Swamp  Magnolia,  Swamp  Sassafras  and  Beaver  Wood. 
At  the  South,  White  or  Sweetbay,  is  a  name  applied  to  it.  It  is 
confined  chiefly  to  the  tide  water  along  the  Atlantic  coast. 
The  parts  of  the  plant  which  have  been  used  in  medicine  are 
the  bark  of  the  root,  that  of  the  trunk,  and  the  fruit.  The 
leaves  are  also  medicinal. 
The  bark  of  the  root  is  thick,  tough,  and  spotted  externally, 
