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Show 420 SENNA, OR AGYPTIAN CASSIA. This forms a mild and useful purge, excellently suited for delicate stomachs and inflammatory diseases. The taste of the senna is well covered by the aromatic sugar, and bythe acidity of the tamarinds. An ounce is a convenient purge. Comrounp TincturE oF SENNA, COMMONLY CALLED ELIxir oF Heattx. Tinctura Senne Composita, (vulgo Elixir Salutis. E.) Take of senna leaves, two ounces; jalap root, bruised, one ounce; coriander seeds, bruised, half an ounce; diluted alcohol, three pounds anda half : Digest for seven days, and to the liquor, filtered through paper, add Doublerefined sugar, four ounces. Comrounp Powner oF SENNA. (Pulvis Senne Compositus. L.) Take of senna, crystals of tartar, of each two ounces; scammony, half an ounce; ginger, two drachms: Triturate the scammonybyitself, reduce the rest together into a powder, and then mix them all. This powder is given as a cathartic, in the dose of two scruples, or adrachm. The scammony is used as a stimulus to the senna; the quantity of the latter necessary for a dose, when not assisted by some more powerful material, being too bulky to be conveniently taken in thisform. The ginger is added to make it sit easier on the stomach, and gripeless. Exrract or Senna. (Extractum Senne. L.) Take of senna, one pound; distilled water, one gallon : Boil the sennain the distilled water, adding, after its decocti on, a little rectified spirit of wine. Evaporate the strained liquor to a proper thickness. The dose is ten grains to half a drachm. Execruary or SENNA, commonty cattep Lenrtive Exrca ruary. (Electuarium Cassie Senne, olim Electuarium Lenitivum. E.) Take of senna, eight ounces; —————- coriander seeds, four ounces: SENNA, OR AGYPTIAN CASSIA. Take of liquorice root, bruised, three ounces; figs, pulp of prunes, each one pound ; pulp of tamarinds, half a pound; double refined sugar, two pounds and a half. Exectuary oF Senna. (Electuarium Senne. L.) Take of senna, eight ounces; coriander seeds, four ounces 5 liquorice, three ounces5 figs, one pound; pulp of tamarinds, pulp of cassia, pulp of prunes, each half a pound ; double refined sugar, two poundsa half: Powder the senna with the coriander seeds, and sift out ten ounces of the mixed powder; boil the remainder with the figs andliquorice, in four pounds of water to one half; express and strain the liquor, which is then to be evaporated to the weight of about a pound and a half; dissolve the sugar in it; add this syrup by degrees to the pulps; and, lastly, mix in the powder, Dub. Take of senna leaves, in very fine powder, four ounces $ pulp of French prunes, one pound; pulp of tamarinds, two ounces; molasses, a pint and a half; essential oil of caraway, two drachms: Boil the pulps in the syrup to the thickness of honey ; then add the powder, and when the mixture cools, the oil ; lastly, mix the whole intimately. This electuary ‘is a very convenient laxative, and has long been in common use among practitioners. Taken to the size of a nutmeg, or more, as occasion may require, it is an excellent laxative for loosening the belly in costive habits. The formula of the Dublin college is much more simple and elegant than the others. PRESCRIPTIONS, R.. 1. Take of the electuary of senna = - - ounce 1, jalap, in powder, ginger, in powder, equal quantities, drachm 1, syrup of roses, as much asis sufficient : |