FERRUM.— IRON.

671

R. Red Oxide of Iron, half a pound.

Crude Tartar, one pound.

Distilled Vinegar, three pounds.

Digest in a warm place, and then distil

off the vinegar. Cohobate two or three

times in succession ; the last time distil to

dryness, and pour upon the residuum,

Alcohol, twenty ounces.

Digest for eight days, and decant.The product here is absolutely similar tothat of the preceding, from which it differsonly in its absurd mode of preparation.—Itis of course administered in the same cases,and at the same doses.

FERRUGINOUS TINCTURE.

Tinctura /errata. (Ph. Syph.)

R. Sulphate of Iron, 1 of each,

Supertartrate of Potass, J four ounces.Spring Water, six pounds.

Boil, constantly stirring, till the massbecomes nearly dry. Pour upon it

Cinnamon Water, four ounces.

Dissolve and add

Alcoholized Sulphuric either,

eight ounces.Digest and filter.

This tincture is rather more excitant thanthat of Ludwig.

ferruginous stomachic tincture.(Ferr.)

R. Tartrate of Potass and of Iron,

one dram.Compound Aromatic Spirit,

one pound.Mix. — Dose, from half a dram to onedram.

FERRUGINOUS TINCTURE OF HELLEBORE.

Tinctura Martin helleborata. (Ferr. ; Pa-lat. ; Wirtem. ; Spielmann)

R. Iron Filings, \ f h f OIir ounces

Crude Tartar, | ot eacl1 ' tour ounces -

Root of Black Hellebore, two ounces.

Reduce the whole to a coarse powder,

and add

Spring Water, a sufficient quantity.Digest for several days, in a close vessel,then boil the mixture in an iron vessel, oc-casionally stirring. Set aside the liquor,decant, evaporate slowly to the consistenceof an extract, and add, to it

Spirit of Scurvy-grass, thrice its weight.Mix, and filter. (Palat.)R. Ludwig's Chalybeate Tincture,

four ounces.Extract of Black Hellebore, two drams.

Digest and filter. (Wirtem. ; Spiel-

mann)

R. Extract of Black Hellebore,

two drams.Tincture of Potass and of Iron,

four ounces.Mix. (Ferr.)

This tincture was formerly recommendedin hypochondria, melancholy, and obstinateintermittents.

Dose, from forty to sixty drops. At ahigher dose it acts as a purgative.

FERRUGINOUS SYRUP OP CICHORY.

Syrupus magistralis. (Genev. ; Bories)

R. Tincture of Tartrate of Potass and

of Iron, half an ounce.

Syrup of Cichory, one poun(\

Mix. (Genev.)

R. Tartarized Extract of Iron, six ounces.Compound Tincture of Aloes,

one ounce.Syrup of Cichory, twelve ounces.

Make a syrup. (Bories)

It is tonic and aperitive.

Dose, three spoonfuls daily, in any pro-per vehicle.

wine of iron.

Vitium /erratum seu martiatum seu cnaly-beatum seu Ferri seu Mariis, TincturaMariis vinosa seu cum Vino. (Lond. ;Dubl. ; Amer. ; Bruns. ; Gall. ; Ferr. ;Lipp. ; Lusit. ; Sard. ; Wurceb. ;Coxe ; Cadet de Gassicourt; Nie-mann)

Vitium Ferri.

R

Iron, one dram.

Supertartrate of Potass,

six drams.Distilled Water, two pints ;

or, as much as shall be required.Proof Spirit,

twenty fluid ounces.

Triturate together the iron and su-pertartrate, and expose them, withone fluid ounce of the water, to theair for six weeks, stirring daily with aspatula, keeping the mass continuallymoist by occasional additions of thewater. Then dry it with a moderateheat, reduce it to powder, and mix itwith