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DI ANTHUS —CLOVE-PINK.
DIANTHUS CARYOPHYLLUS, Linn.— CLOVE-PINK.
Synonimes :— Œillet commun, Fr. ; Gar-tennelke, Germ. ; Kramsky lirebjcek,Bohem. ; Fiernellike, Dan. ; Clavel plu-mario, Span. ; Geplümde anjelier, Dut.;Garofano piamario, Ital. ; Cravo pal-mario, Port. ; Fraegœrds juglika, Fiederjuglika, Swed.
Edinb.; Dubl. ; Amst. ; Ant. ; Belg. ;Bruns. ; Hisp. ; Gael. ; Genev. ;Wirtem. ; Bergius ; Coxe ; Gui-BOURT ; Murray and Gmelin ; Spiel-mann; Zarda.
A plant of Europe. (Decandria Digynia,Linn. ; Can/op/iyllea>, Juss. Fig. Zorn,Ic.pl. t. 345.)
The petals of the flowers {Flores Tunicceseu Tunicœ liortensis seu rubrat seu Caryo-phyllorum rubrorum) are employed. Theyare naked and crenelated. Their taste issweet and slightly nauseous ; their odour,which is agreeable, is dissipated by desic-cation.
They formerly ranked among those medi-caments which were called nervine.
Dose, from a scruple to a dram.
CONSERVE OF CLOVE-PINK. (PaLAT. ;
Sard.; Wirtem.; Van Moss)
R. Petals of Clove-pink, freed fromtheir claws, and reduced to pulp,
one part.
White Sugar, two parts.
Beat together. (Palat. ; Wirtem.)
Van Mons gives the same process ; but
directs the mass to be heated, to effect the
more perfect mixture of the sugar. — Sard.
— prescribes one part of petals and three
parts of sugar boiled à la grand plume.
VINEGAR OF CLOVE-PINK.
Acetum Tunica: seu Caryophylli. [Gall. ;Wirtem.)
R. Petals of Clove-pink, freed from
their claws, one part.
Vinegar, sixteen parts.
Macerate for fifteen days, occasionallyshaking ; then strain and filter. (Gall.)
Wirtem. prescribes one part of petalsand six parts of vinegar.
SYRUr OF CLOVE-PINK.
Syrupus Timicœ seu Tunica florum seu Ca-ryophylli rubri seu de Floribus Diantfti
Caryophylli seu Caryophylloriuin rubro-rum. (Edinb. ; Amst. ; Bruns. ;Gall. ; Genev. ; Palat. ; Wirtem. ;Coxe ; Van Mons)
Syrupus Dianthi Caryophylli.(Edinb.)
R. Fresh Petals of Clove-pink,freed from their claws,
one part.Boiling' Water, four parts.
Refined Sugar, seven parts.
Macerate the petals in the waterfor twelve hours ; then strain the in-fusion, add the sugar, and form asyrup with a moderate heat.
R. Fresh Petals of Clove-pink, freed
from their claws, eight ounces.
Boiling Water, sixteen ounces.
Digest for twenty-four hours at a verymoderate heat ; then strain without expres-sion, and add to eight parts of the infusion
Sugar, sixteen parts.
Make a syrup. (Amst.)
Palat. ; and Wirtem. prescribe sixteenounces of sugar to nine ounces of saturatedinfusion. — Gall. — four pounds of flowers,eight of boiling w T ater, twelve hours' infu-sion, and double the quantity of the pro-duct, of sugar. — Genev. — one pound ofclove-pink, two pounds of water, twelvehours'maceration, and four pounds of sugar.
R. Fresh Petals, without claws, one part.
Cold Water, one half part.
Having bruised the petals, add the water,
and after some time, pour upon the mixture
Boiling Water, one pound and a half.
Infuse for twenty-four hours, strain with
slight expression, set aside and decant.
Then
R. Of this Infusion, three parts.
Sugar, five parts and a half.
Dissolve without ebullition and skim.(Van Mons)
Bruns, directs one pound of petals to bebruised, and then infused in eighteen ouncesof boiling water for several hours ; the li-quor then to be slightly expressed, and thenboiled for a few minutes, with thirty ouncesof sugar.