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NON-OFFICINAL  FORMULAE  IN  LOCAL  USE. 
*Ferrated  Tincture  of  Cinchona,  eight  fluidounces. 
Syrup  of  Orange-peel,  four  fluidounces. 
Distilled  Water,  three  and  a-half  fluidounces. 
Tincture  of  Cardamom,  four  fluidrachms. 
Water  of  Ammonia,  a  sufficient  quantity. 
Dissolve  the  citrate  of  bismuth  and  ammonia  in  the  distilled  water;  add 
water  of  ammonia  in  slight  excess  ;  then  dissolve  the  citrate  of  iron  and 
ammonia;  add  the  ferrated  tincture  and  tincture  of  cardamom;  filter, 
and  add  the  syrup  of  orange-peel.  Bach  fluidrachm  contains  nearly  two 
grains  each  of  the  salts  of  bismuth  and  iron. 
Elixir  Chloroformi  (Chloroform  Paregoric  of  Dr.  Hartshorne.) 
Take  of  Chloroform, 
Tincture  of  Opium, 
Tincture  of  Camphor, 
Aromatic  Spirit  of  Ammonia,  of  each  a  fluidounce  and  a-half. 
Oil  of  Cinnamon,  twenty  minims. 
Brandy,  two  fluidounces. 
Mix.    Dose,  half  a  fluidrachm  or  less. 
Elixir  Ferri  Pyrophosphatis. 
Take  of  Pyrophosphate  of  Iron,  three  hundred  and  twenty  grains. 
Distilled  Water,  eight  fluidounces. 
Syrup  of  Orange  peel, 
Best  Brandy,  of  each  four  fluidounces. 
Mix. 
*  The  Ferrated  Tincture  of  Cinchona  used  in  this  preparation  is  made  in 
the  following  manner : 
Take  of  Calisaya  Bark,  in  moderately  fine  powder,  a  troyounce. 
Bitter  Orange-peel,  in  moderately  fine  powder,  six  drachms. 
Serpentaria,  in  moderately  fine  powder,. one  drachm  and  a-half. 
Diluted  Alcohol,  a  sufficient  quantity. 
Sub-carbonate  of  Iron,  four  ounces,  or  a  sufficient  quantity. 
Boiling  Alcohol,  a  sufficient  quantity. 
Citrate  of  Iron  (soluble),  one  hundred  and  sixty  grains. 
Mix  the  powders,  and  having  moistened  the  mixture  with  one  fluid- 
ounce  of  diluted  alcohol,  pack  it  firmly  in  a  glass  percolater  and  gradually 
pour  diluted  alcohol  upon  it,  until  ten  fluidounces  of  tincture  are  ob- 
tained. Moisten  the  sub-carbonate  of  iron  with  four  fluidounces  of  diluted 
alcohol,  add  the  tincture  ;  agitate  briskly  for  fifteen  minutes  ;  set  it  aside 
for  24  hours  ;  test  a  portion  with  solution  of  subsulphate  of  iron  ;  if  a  pre- 
cipitate should  form  treat  it  with  more  of  the  sub-carbonate,  till  the  tinc- 
ture tested  remains  clear ;  filter,  add  sufficient  boiling  alcohol  through 
the  filter  to  make  the  tincture  measure  ten  fluidounces.  Lastly  dissolve 
the  citrate  of  iron  in  the  tincture. 
