210 THE NEW ZEALAND FAMILY HERB DOCTOR. 
Syrup oF LoBELIA.— 
Acid tincture lobelia made by steeping one ounce herb and 
one of seed in a pint of vinegar 14 days. The syrup is simply 
weight for weight with sugar. Boil, skim, and cool. 
ScROFULA SYRUP.— 
Yellow Dock Root (dry and crushed).... Two ounces. 
American Sarsaparilla (dry and crushed) Two ounces. 
Sassafras Bark (dry and crushed) ...... One ounce. 
Simmer in five pints of soft or spring water down to four, 
express when sufficiently cool, filter, add four pounds of fine 
white sugar, and two ounces of tincture of Stillingin; gently 
simmer in a water bath for two hours in a covered vessel, 
skim, let it cool, and bottle for use. Dose: froma teaspoonful 
to a dessert or tablespoonful four times a day. 
This is a preparation that may be used with great 
advantage in all cases of scrofula and secondary syphilis, 
scald or scabbed hea 1, eczema, &c. 
Putmonary Syvrvur.— 
Hoarhound (herb, dry)... oss 4+- 1+. Two ounces. 
Coltstoot (rerb, Avy) y e041 eas ees Two ounces. 
Sanicle, wood (herb, dry)............ Two ounces. 
Simmer in three quarts of soft or distilled water down to five 
pints, and when sufficiently cool, express, filter, add five 
pounds of lump sugar, three ounces of tincture of pleurisy-root, 
two ounces of syrup of lobelia, and one ounce of antispasmodic 
tincture ; simmer, for two hours, in a water bath, in a covered 
vessel; skim, and bottle for use. Dose: from a large 
dessertspoonful to a tablespoonful four and six times a day. 
This is an excellent preparation in cough, pleurisy, and 
consumption, and may be used with equal advantage in all 
cases of respiratory disease. 
Syrup oF RavBaRB.— 
Turkey Rhubarb (root, bruised)...... Two ounces. | 
Boiling soft or distilled water ...... ,. One pint. 
Infuse twenty-four hours, strain, filter, add one pound of 
