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tiori as a medicine. It is usually employed in the forms of 
decoction and infusion. Asa diuretic, these preparations 
are generally made in the proportion of an ounce to a pint 
of water, and administered in doses of a wineglass full. 
For exhibition as a tonic, two drachms to the same quan- 
tity of water, and given in like doses. 
In closing, it may be remarked, that on account of the 
importance of this indigenous medicinal agent, it merits and 
will receive further examination. By some western prac- 
titioners it is much used, and regarded as an efficient medi- 
cine. If such be indeed the case, it is hoped that its em- 
ployment will be more geiieral, and that ere long it will be 
added to the list of efficient remedies. 
ART. XXL— PHARMACEUTICAL NOTICES. 
By William Procter, Jr. 
Fluid Extract of Bnchu, Buchu leaves contain, ac- 
cording to Cadet de Gassicourt, volatile oil^ resin, chloro- 
phylky extractive and twenty-one i)er cent of gummy mu- 
cilage, soluble partly in cold, but wholly in boiling water, 
and communicating to that fluid by ebullition, a considera- 
ble ropiness which is manifest in the officinal infusion. 
As a remedy in diseases of the bladder, it is held in much 
esteem by some physicians, and as its use requires to be 
continued for a length of time, it hay been thought ; that a 
preparation embodying all the medical virtues of the drug, 
so concentrated as to require but a small dose, and yet 
sufficiently permanent to be kept for a length of time, 
would be a desideratum. 
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