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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    Argenti Nitras, B.P. (Fusa, U.S.) Nitrate of Silver, melted, and cast into sticks. Valuable for superficial cauterisation, and for destroying the tubercles of lupus of the face, as it does not injure the healthy tissues. Mitigated Nitrate of Silver. A combination of 1 pt. of nitrate of silver with 2 pts. of nitrate of potash, melted together and moulded into sticks, is sometimes preferable to the pure nitrate, owing to its milder action. Alumen Exsiccatum, B.P., U.S., Burnt Alum. Prepared by driving off the water of crystallisation from ordinary alum. It is used as a mild caustic to sprinkle on unhealthy or too freely granulating wounds. Oupri Sulphas. [Sulphate of Copper is applied in the solid form to the eyelids in granular conjunctiva, and also as an astringent lotion, gr. ij. ad §j. water in simple conjunctivitis. Fifteen grains dissolved in 3j- water form an admirable solution for destroying soft chancres, or for cleansing unhealthy ulcers (Sigmund). It causes scarcely any pain, and does not injure the healthy tissues.] The German Pharmacopoeia contains a combination called Cuprum Aluminatum, consisting of equal parts of sulphate of copper, nitrate of potash and alum, fused with -^ of their weight of camphor. It is specially used in ophthalmic medicine and is known as Green stone, or Lapis Divinus.