Volume 174702

The British dispensatory, containing a faithful translation of the new London Pharmacopoeia, published by the College of Physicians ... To which are joined, in a compendious manner, the whole contents of the Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia; with notes explanatory and additional.

Date:
1747
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Credit: The British dispensatory, containing a faithful translation of the new London Pharmacopoeia, published by the College of Physicians ... To which are joined, in a compendious manner, the whole contents of the Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia; with notes explanatory and additional. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    flowers which rife firft to be thrown away, and the red only to be kept for ufe. ; Lixivium martis. Deliquiate fteel. Set what remains in the retort, after the fublima + tion of the fteel. flowers, in a moift place, and let the fluid which runs from it be preferved for ufe. Sal martis. “Take of ftrong fpirit or oil of vitriol eight ounces, ftee] filings four ounces, water two pints; mix them, and the effervefcence being over, let the mixture ftand for fome time in hot fand ; then pour off the fluid, and filter it through paper, and after a due evaporation fet it to cryftallize. (> ). (4) This preparation feems very unneccffarily di- refied, being only an expenfive manner of procuring common green vitriol, for the falt produced is really: no other. hadi Caufticum lunare. Lunar cauftick. Diffolve pure filver in about twice its weight of aqua fortis, ina fand heat ; then the heat being in- creafed, evaporate to drynefs; afterwards melt it in a. crucible, that it may be poured into proper moulds, carefully avoiding too great an heat, left the matter thicken beyond the juft degree. (7) (4) The Edinburgh difpenfatory diredts the quantity of aqua fortis to be three times the weight of the filver, and that the mixture continue in the melted flate, till it ceafes to emit any fumes; this quantity of aqua fortis is certainly preferable to that ordered in the London dil- _penfatory, which, admitting the aqua fortis to be of the juftelt ftrength, and firft purity, mutt be infuffiicient to diffolve perfectly that proportion of filver, and an excefs in the quantity of the aqua fortis can be no-in- jury tothe preparation, as it will neceflanly be evapo- sated in) thé operations’ 1) 1) Sone rare : Sac- ee ee