PHARMACEUTICAL NOTICES. 
2S3 
Dissolve the gum in the boiling water with frequent stir- 
ring; then add the sugar; boil so as to form a syrup, and 
strain. When cold add the orange flower water. 
The quantity of gum is here placed at a medium between 
the French and former American standards. When the gum 
is in large proportion it is very apt to ferment, even when 
thickly boiled, and besides, is not very miscible with water. 
The slight addition of orange-flower water makes it more 
agreeable. 
Paregoric Elixir. 
Some of our brethren complain, and not without a cause, 
of the new formula for this preparation. That they would 
not be readily inclined to adopt it in strict conformity with 
the directions might have been supposed, from the fact of the 
very wide distinction in its appearance from the former pare- 
goric. Made according to the new recipe, it exhibits an ab- 
sence of color, while that of the old formula was not only 
colored, but so deeply with liquorice, as to present very little, 
if any, apparent difference from laudanum. This sudden 
change, so visible to our customers, to whom explanation as 
to causes is most frequently thrown away when the evidence 
of their external senses cannot be overcome, engenders sus- 
picion as to the merits of a remedy, and operates to our pre- 
judice. How many times does it occur that a remedy ap- 
pearing different from heretofore, is either brought back or 
peremptorily refused in the first place? For this reason we 
find it necessary to add a sufficient quantity of red saunders 
to impart a deep red color, which it is presumed will be done 
by others, or else adhere to the old formula. 
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