Decocta. Decoctions.

Decoctions for which directions are not specifically given should be prepared by boiling 5 of the bruised drug with 120 of distilled water for ten minutes, then straining and, if necessary, making up the volume to 100 by passing distilled water through the strainer.

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