Extractum Maticae Liquidum, B.P.C. Liquid Extract of Matico.

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Related entries: Matico

Matico, in No. 40 powder 100.00 | 20 ounces
Alcohol (70 per cent.) ... to 100.00 | to 20 fl. ounces

Moisten the drug with the alcohol, pack in a percolator, and exhaust by percolation with the alcohol. Reserve the first 80 (16 fluid ounces) of percolate, recover most of the alcohol by distillation from the subsequent percolate, evaporate the residue to a soft extract, dissolve this in the reserved portion, and add sufficient menstruum to make up to the required volume.
Dose.—2 to 4 mils (½ to 1 fluid drachm).


The British Pharmaceutical Codex, 1911, was published by direction of the Council of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.