The elements of therapeutics : a clinical guide to the action of medicines / by C. Binz ; tr. from the 5th German ed., and ed., with additions, in conformity with the British and American pharmacopoeias, by Edward I. Sparks.

  • Karl Binz
Date:
1877
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Credit: The elements of therapeutics : a clinical guide to the action of medicines / by C. Binz ; tr. from the 5th German ed., and ed., with additions, in conformity with the British and American pharmacopoeias, by Edward I. Sparks. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    Liquor Epispasticus to loosen those hairs which are attacked by the fungus.] Preparations:— (1.) Acetum Cantharidts, B.P. (Cantharides, glacial acetic acid, acetic acid ; 1 in 10.) Only used externally. (2.) Gharta Ep>ispastica, B.P.; Cliarta Cantliaridis, U.S. Blistering paper. (White wax, spermaceti, oKve oil, resin, Canada balsam, cantharides, distilled water; 1 in 15J, B.P.; only half the strength, U.S.) (3.) Emxolastrum Cantharidis, B.P. (Cantharides, yellow wax, suet, resin, prepared lard; 1 in 3.) (4.) Emplastrum Calefaciens, B.P. (Cantharides, boiling water, oil of nutmeg, yellow wax, resin, soap plaster, resin plaster; 1 in 25.) (5.) Liquor Ejnspasticus, B.P. Blistering fluid. (Can- tharides, acetic acid, sether; 1 in 2J.) (6.) Tindura Ccmthcmdis,B.'P. (Cantharides, proof spirit; 1 in 80.) Dose, T[{y.—xx. U.S. much stronger. (1 in 30.) Dose, TT|^xx.—Ix. (7.) Unguentum Gantharidis. (Cantharides, yellow wax, olive oH; 1 in 8, B.P.; 1 in 12, U.S.) (8.) Linimentum Gantharidis, U.S. (Cantharides, gj., oil of turpentine Oss. ; digested for three hours and strained.) (9.) Emplastrum Picis cum Cantharide, U.S. (Burgundy pitch, cerate of cantharides; 1 in 12.) (10.) Geratum Gantharidis, U.S. (Cantharides, yellow wax, resin, lard; 1 in 3.) (11.) Geratum Extracti Gantharidis. (Made by extract- ing 5 troy ounces cantharides with 2J pints stronger alcohol, evaporating, and melting with resin, §iij., yellow wax, §vj., lard, gvij.) The German Pharmacopoeia contains a convenient prepara- tion of cantharides called Gollodium Gantharidatum. It is made by dissolving gun cotton in cether which has been