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![VINA MED I CAT A. ] 77 of oinole, and subsequently, of cenole, according to the suggestion of M. Henry. Parmentier has proposed, it is true, to add to any generous wine an alcoholic or hydralcoholic tincture, * of the substances of which a medicinal wine is wished to be made. *f* But this author, whose memory can never perish, at first suggested this process only for the preparation of medicinal wines in quantity, for mi- litary hospitals : and in this respect his method possessed nu- merous advantages ; for in these establishments, often moveable, there is a want of time and of good wines. It was necessary to supply this want; and Parmentier’s idea was useful. But this is not the case in civil practice. Here every facility exists, and there is nothing to prevent medicinal wines from pos- sessing all their requisite properties. The method of Parmentier is only adapted to chalybeate wine, and in general the receipts of the Codex ought to be followed. We must remember, nevertheless, with regard to the wine of worm- wood, that M. Boudet has given a process which consists in tri- turating the dried summits of wormwood with white wine in a marble mortar for ten minutes, and then expressing and filtering it. The proportions to be employed are, Chablis wine a half litre, wormwood grammes. This wine, saturated with the aromatic bitter principle, is said to keep well.—Ch. and R. The London College, in the last edition of their Pharmacopoeia, has been guilty of singular solecisms in regard to the medicated wines. They have rejected the use of wine altogether in Pharmacy, and even expunged it from their Materia Medica, but have retained the title. They have Vinum aloes, V. ipecacuanhas, V. veratri, V. colchici, V. antimonii tartarisati, and V. ferri, which contain no wine ; and, most unaccountably, the tartar-emetic wine, which was called Liquor ant. tartar, when it was made with wine, is now called Vinum when it contains none. I may take this opportunity of supplying an omission in the last edi- tion of the Dispensatory, by now inserting the London formula for Vinum Colchici. “ Take of recent seeds of meadow saffron one pound ; proof spirits four fluid-ounces ; distilled water eight fluid- ounces ; macerate for fourteen days, and filter.”—(A. D.) Extract a.—The progress of scientific chemistry has removed every thing vague and faulty from the classification of extracts. M. Ilecluz has founded an arrangement on their most active con- stituent principle ascertained by analysis, and of which the effects are evident. This attempt is creditable to its author, j * Hydralcohol is brandy which does not exceed 22° of the areometer of Baume, 12° of the Batavian scale, (sp. gr. 0.923.) Code Pharmaceutique, p. 365, 3d edition, t Journal de Pharmacie, T. ix. 1823, p. 76 ; see also the Report of M, Henry, Se- guin, and Chereau, p. 76 of the same volume. z](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21978979_0189.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
