52  Syrup  of  Phosphate  of  Iron,  etc.    {AM^  SK?"' 
Sulphate  of  quinia  ......       grs.  Ixiv. 
Strychnia,  grs.  if. 
Curacoa  cordial  (white),         ....        q.s.  3xvss. 
Essential  tinct.  orange       .       .       .       .       .  giii. 
Dilute  phosphoric  acid,  .        .        .  . 
Dissolve  the  quinia  and  strychnia  in  the  Curacoa  cordial  by  aid  of 
the  phosphoric  acid,  add  the  syrup  of  the  phosphate  of  iron  and  lastly 
the  essential  tincture  of  orange.  This  forms  a  more  reliable  elixir 
than  any  found  in  the  market  ;  any  druggist,  with  the  syrup  of  the 
phosphate  of  iron,  could  extemporaneously  form  it  as  ordered,  and 
thus  avoid  the  cinchonia  frauds  so  extensively  practiced  with  this 
preparation  by  some  manufacturing  chemists  ;  or,  if  economy  be  de- 
sired, the  physician  could  easily  order  the  cinchonia  and  the  druggist 
dispense  it. 
I  think  Mr.  Rother  has  really  made  a  valuable  contribution  to 
pharmacy  in  this  syrup,  and  believe  it  worthy  of  officinal  recognition. 
It  is  not  the  iron  tonic  that  the  proto-phosphate,  in  point  of  energy, 
falls  much  below  the  phosphate  with  phosphate  of  ammonia  in 
diseases  attended  with  nervous  prostration,  yet  the  difficulty  in  pro- 
curing these  of  a  reliable  character  is  a  great  offset  to  their  general 
use.  As  found  in  the  shops  they  are  mostly  unworthy  of  confidence, 
while  their  inestimable  value  when  properly  prepared  will  always 
maintain  a  demand  for  them,  although  the  miserably  prepared  syrup 
usually  dispensed  for  Easton's  differs  as  far  from  the  learned  Profes- 
sor's preparation  as  the  attenuated  solution  of  hyponitrous  ether  as 
found  in  the  shops  differs  from  the  spirit  of  nitrous  ether  of  the  Phar- 
macopoeia. 
The  syrup  of  iron  with  ammonium  citrate  presents  no  induce- 
ment for  fraud,  and  really  resembles  in  appearance  nought  else  but 
the  syrup  of  the  pyrophosphate,  which  is  an  apple  green,  while  the 
syrup  proposed  by  Mr.  Ilother  is  an  olive  green.  As  the  pyrophos- 
phate is  more  expensive  and  even  more  difficult  to  prepare,  we  would 
have  nothing  to  fear  from  that  direction.  It  could  be  prepared  by 
the  manufacturing  chemists  and  obtained  by  the  pharmacists  of  a  re- 
liable quality,  from  which  all  other  ferrated  syrups  and  elixirs  con- 
taining phosphate  of  iron  could  be  extemporaneously  formed. 
In  thus  recommending  Mr.  Rother's  preparation  over  mine,  I  am 
led  by  a  firm  conviction  that  it  is  not  only  better,  but  fills  a  purpose 
heretofore  unfilled  as  a  reliable  base  for  other  preparations.    I  refer 
