angelicæ, L. Prep. 1. (Ph. Baden.) From a tincture of the root, prepared with spirit sp. gr. ·944 (= 211⁄2 u. p.).
2. (Ph. Bor.) Angelica root and rectified spirit, of each 2 parts; water, 9 parts; digest, strain, and evaporate. Inferior to the preceding.
3. (Dr Moir.) Angelica root, 2 lbs.; rectified spirit, 1 gall.; make a tincture; to the ‘marc’ add proof spirit, 1 gall., and repeat the digestion; filter the two tinctures separately, mix, distil off the spirit, and evaporate. Balsamic, stomachic, and tonic.—Dose, 10 to 20 gr. The last is the most balsamic and agreeable.
Extract of Ap′ples. Syn. Chalybeated e. of a.; Extractum ferri pomatum, L. Prep. 1. (Ph. Bor.) Crab-apples (unripe), 6 lbs.; peel them and reduce them to a pulp; add iron wire (in small coils), 1 lb.; digest in a vapour bath for about a week, express, strain, decant, and evaporate in a porcelain vessel, with constant stirring, to the consistence of a soft extract; dissolve the residuum in water, 4 parts, strain and evaporate as before.—Dose, 5 to 10 gr.; as a chalybeate tonic. The formula of the Ph. Baden is nearly similar.
2. (Ph. Germ.) Reduce 5 lbs. of unripe apples to a pulp; mix them with cut straw, and press. To the strained juice after removal of the sediment add 11⁄2 oz. of reduced iron. When this has dissolved, to the cooled liquid add as much water as will make up 43⁄4 lbs. Filter, and reduce to a thick extract.
Extract of Ar′nica. Syn. Extract of arnica flowers; Extractum arnicæ florum, L. Prep. 1. (P. Cod.) From the dried flowers, as ALCOHOLIC EXTRACT OF ACONITE—P. Cod.
2. (Ph. Græca, 1837.) From a tincture of the flowers, prepared with rectified spirit, 3 parts, and water, 5 parts.—Dose, 2 to 6 gr.; as a stimulant in various diseases accompanied with debility, deficient nervous sensibility, paralysis, dropsies, diarrhœa, amenorrhœa, dysentery, &c.
Extract of Arnica-Root. Syn. Extract of arnica; Extractum arnicæ radicis, L. Prep. 1. (Ph. Baden.) As Extract of angelica—Ph. Baden.
2. (Ph. Græca.) From tincture of the root, prepared as No. 2 (above). The form of the Hamburg Codex is nearly similar.—Dose, &c. As the last.
Extract of Art′ichoke. Syn. Extractum Cynaræ, L. Prep. From the fresh leaves of the artichoke, as EXTRACT OF ACONITE—Ph. L.—Dose, 3 to 6 gr., twice or thrice daily; in rheumatism, &c.