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308 STILLINGIA SYLVATICA. 
' p. Stillingia root, recent, §iv. 
Sarsaparilla root, bruised, lb,ss» 
; : , Guaiacum wood, rasped, Ib.ss. 
/i , . Sassafras root, §iv. 
Water, 1 gallon. 
They are boiled in a covered vessel till sufficiently 
extracted, strained and reduced to two quarts, and sugar 
or treacle added to make a syrup by simmering. 
This crude mode of preparation proved less advantageous 
than when a saturated tincture of the Stillingia was added 
to a syrup of the other ingredients in the rates of a pint to 
the gallon. 
The dose of this syrup varies from §ss, to gj. three or 
four times a day. 
Dr. Frost states that the bichloride of mercury and iodide 
of potassium may sometimes be associated with great ad- 
vantage. 
Dr. F. recommends this preparation of Stillingia in ulcer- 
ations of the palate, throat, and mucous membrane, of the 
nose, the skin and other parts. It will remove blotches, 
foul spots, and stains, &c., from the skin, and will be found 
useful in various cutaneous diseases. 
Should this article prove of sufficient importance to attract 
general attention, its properties may be extracted and pre- 
pared according to a more enlightened method than that 
above stated; viz., by means of diluted alcohol in the 
present method of extracting sarsaparilla for extract or com- 
pound syrup,] 
