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TARAXACUM.—DANDELION.

Boil down to about one half, and setaside and decant the liquor. (Ant.)

Niemann prescribes one ounce and a halfof root, and three pounds of water ; to bereduced to one third.

It is diuretic and deobstruent. — Dose,one pound daily.

COMPOUND DECOCTION OF DANDELION.

Decoctum Taraxaci compositum seu résol-vons. (Mil. Copen. ; Niemann ; Swe-diaur)

R. Root of Dandelion, four ounces.

Herb of Buckbean, half an ounce.

Water, forty-eight ounces.

Boil down to one half, and express

strongly. Add to the liquor when half cold

Muriate of Ammonia, two drams,

or, Sulphate of Magnesia, one ounce.

Sulphuric ¿Ether, two drams.

Mix. (Mil. Copen.)

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Swediaur prescribes one pound and ahalf each, of herb and root of dandelion andof dog-grass, six pounds of water, reducedto three, and the addition to the strainedliquor of half a pound of oxyme], six dramsof sulphate of potass, and twenty-live dropsof spirit of sulphuric œther. — Niemann —■two ounces and a half each, of dog-grass,of root of dandelion, and of root of cichory,and a sufficient quantity of water to obtainone pound of strained decoction, and the ]addition to this of from one to three ounces 'of compound syrup of smallage, two dramsof sulphate of potass, and twenty-five dropsof sulphuric aether.

It is recommended by Stoll, in obstinatequartan fevers, enlargements of the abdo-minal viscera, jaundice, and in cases, ofbiliary calculi. — Dose, half a pound, four orsix times a day.

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DEOBSTRUENT DECOCTION.

Decoctum resolveos. (Fuld. ; Hamb. ;Sainte-Marie ; Van Mons)

R. Root of Dandelion, "1 of each,

---------- Dog-grass, J two ounces.

Water, three pounds.

Boil down to two pounds ; then add tothe strained decoction,

Sulphate of Potass, half an ounce.

Oxymel, two ounces.

Mix. (Sainte-Marie ; Van Mons)

R. Root of Dandelion, four ounces.

Spring Water, two pounds.

Boil down to one half, and add to thestrained liquor

Supertârtrate of Potass, one ounce.

Sub-borate of Soda, three drams.

Glycyrrhized Honey, two ounces.

Dissolve. (Hamb.)

R. Root of Dandelion, two ounces.

Spring Water, one pound.

Boil down to one half, and add when

strained,

Extract of Great Celandine, two drams.

Tartarized Antimony, two grains.

Dissolve. (Hamb.)R. Root of Dandelion, four ounces.

Supertârtrate of Potass, \ of each ,

Sub-borate of Soda, /half anounce.

Water, three pounds.

Boil down to one half, and add

Despumated Honey, two ounces.

Mix. (Fuld.)

EXTRACT OF DANDELION.

Extractum seu Mellayo Taraxaci seu Leontodontis Taraxaci. (Lond. ; Dubl.Amst. ; Austr. ; Batav. ; Bavar.Belg. ; Bruns. ; Dan. ; Hisp. ; Ferr.Fenn. ; Fuld. ; Genev. ; Hann.Hass. ; Lipp. ; Olden. ; Lusit. ; Pol.Borus. ; Ross. ; Sax. ; Suec ; Hf.rbip.Bruonatelli ; Coxe ; Piderit ; Swe-diaur ; Van Mons)

Extracty.m Taraxaci. (Lond.)Ext. Herbse et Radiéis Taraxaci.(Dubl )

R. Fresh Root of Dandelion,

one pound.Boiling Water, one gallon.

Macerate for twenty-four hours,and then boil down to one half. Strainthe decoction while hot, and eva-porate to the proper consistence.(Lond. ; Coxe)

Dübl. directs the herb and root tobe employed.

R. Fresh Root and Herb of Dandelion,

one pound.Water, ten pounds.

Boil for two hours, and express ; setapart the decoction, strain it through flan-nel, and evaporate till the extract no longeradheres to the lingers. (Amst.)

Ross, directs one part of herb and rootto be boiled in two or three of water; thedecoction to be filtered and evaporated. —Hass. ; and Piderit — one of herb and rootto be boiled in three of water; the decoctionto be expressed and evaporated over a slowfire. — Austr. — equal parts of root and ofherb to be boiled in a sufficient quantity of