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Root of round birthwort; of valerian; of each 4-1/2 oz.; of sweet flag, 5 oz. 3 drm.; of gentian, 7-1/2 oz.; of igusticum meum, 3 oz. 6 drms.; of ginger, 15 oz.; herb of dittany of Crete, 7-1/2 oz.; of pennyroyal, and of scordium, of each 10-1/2 oz.; leaves of laurus cassia, 12 oz.; flowers of St. John's wort, 3-1/2 oz., of French lavender, 12 oz.: of red lavender, and of roses, of each, 7-1/2 oz.; Celtic nard, 7-1/2 oz.; spikenard, 15 oz.; lemon grass, 13 oz.; seeds of thlaspi, 15 oz.; of seseli, 12 oz.; of carrot, 10-1/2 oz.; of parsley, and fennel, of each, 7-1/2 oz.; of anise, 4-1/2 oz.; juniper berries, 1 oz.; long pepper, 12 oz.; white pepper, and fruit of amyris opobalsamum, of each 10-1/2 oz.; lesser cardamoms, 7-1/2 oz.; saffron, 15 oz.; cinnamon, 15-1/2 oz.; Arabian costus, 12 oz.; cassia lignea, 10-1/2 oz.; trochiscs of agaric, 15 oz.; castor, 12 oz.; scincus marinus, 3-1/2 oz.; myrrh, 16 oz.; olibanum, 15 oz.; bdellium, 10-1/2 oz.; gum Arabic, 7-1/2 oz.

Pulverise, mix, and sift the above. Then dissolve in 8 lb. of wine galbanum and opoponax, of each 12 oz.; sagapenum, 4-1/2 oz.; juice of hypocist, 12 oz.; juice of acacia, 4 oz.; opium, 7-1/2 oz.

Mix this solution with 106 lb. despumated honey, and gradually incorporate the powder. Then pour into the mixture 12 oz. of storax dissolved in 14 oz. of turpentine, and finally add 12 oz. of opobalsamum. Stir for several hours and leave the mixture to ferment in a large vessel.

Root of Florentine iris, licorice, of each, 12 oz.; of Arabian costus, Pontic rhubarb, cinquefoil, of each 6 oz.; of Ligusticum meum, rhubarb, gentian, of each, 4 oz.; of birthwort, 2 oz.; herb of scordium, 12 oz.; of lemon grass, horehound, dittany of Crete, calamint, of each, 6 oz.; of pennyroyal, ground pine, germander, of each, 4 oz.; leaves of laurus cassia, 4 oz.; flowers of red roses, 12 oz.; of lavender, 6 oz.; of St. John's wort, 4 oz.; of lesser centaury, 2 oz.; saffron, 6 oz.; fruit of amyris opobalsamum, 4 oz.; cinnamon, 12 oz.; cassia lignea, spike-*dard, of each, 6 oz.; Celtic nard, 4 oz.; long pepper, 24 oz.; black pepper, ginger, of each 6 oz.; cardamoms, 4 oz.; rape seeds, agaric, of each 12 oz.; seeds of Macedonian parsley, 6 oz.; of anise, fennel, cress, seseli, thlaspi, amomum, sandwort, of each 4 oz.; of carrot, 2 oz.; opium, 24 oz.; opobalsamum, 12 oz.; myrrh, olibanum, turpentine, of each 6 oz.; storax, gum Arabic, sagapenum, of each 4 oz.; asphaltum, opoponax, galbanum, of each 2 oz.; juice of acacia, and of hypocist, of each, 4 oz.; castor, 2 oz.; Lemnian bole, calcined vitriol, of each, 4 oz.; trochiscs of squill, 48 oz.; of vipers, of sweet flag, of each 24 oz.

Triturate the balsams, resins, and gums in a sufficient quantity of wine, to form a thin paste, and incorporate the whole with 960 oz. of honey.

Appended are the formulas for these two confections as given in the P.L. 1746. The drugs named in parentheses are those which the College officially authorised as substitutes.