PHARMACEUTICAL NOTICES. 
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been used for some years past in England, and is justly es- 
teemed. 
The following formula, which differs in some respects 
from tlie English, I believe to yield an excellent preparation. 
Take thirty-two ounces of fresh dandelion root, collected 
in Sept<!mber or October, slice it transversely, and reduce 
to a pulp by bruising. Mix this with one-sixth of its bulk 
of alcohol; macerate for twenty-four hours, then express 
strongly. Add a pint of water, containing a little alcohol, 
and again express. Evaporate the liquid to twelve fluid 
ounces ; add four fluid ounces of alcohol, and filter. A tea- 
spoonful of this fluid extract represents half a dram of ex- 
tract of dandelion, obtained from the expressed juice, which 
is several times the strength of that obtained by boiling the 
root in water, as directed by the Pharmacopoeia. 
If alcohol should be objectionable in certain cases, eight 
ounces of sugar may replace it in the above formula, it being 
dissolved by agitation. 
As it is always attended with inconvenience, to make such 
preparations at only one season of the year, the fluid ex- 
tract may be made from sixteen ounces of the dried root 
that has been collected as above, reduced to coarse 
powder, macerated in two pints of water mixed with half a 
pint of alcohol, for two days expressed, &c., as in the other 
case. 
Extradum Spigclias et Senn(B. Fluid Extract of 
Pinkroot and Senna, A preparation of this character is 
not new, as a fluid compound, analogous in its medical in- 
gredients to the ordinary *' worm lea,'^ was published 
several jears since in this Journal, by Thomas Eastlack, Jr. 
The preparation now proposed, was in use before the 
publication of the above noticed formula, and has continued 
ever since to be employed by physicians, and in domestic 
practice, with satisfactory results. Its permanence, and the 
readiness with which children take it, are additional motives 
for its employment. 
