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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    stimulating ointment nitrate of mercury is officinal in the form of Unguentum Hydrargyri Nitratis, Citrine Ointment. (Mercury, nitric acid, lard, olive oil; 1 in 15 J, B. P.; without olive oil and slightly stronger, U.S.) Zinci Ohloridum, B.P., U.S. (ZnCy. Chloride of Zinc. A very deliquescent salt. It is chiefly used in the form of a paste, mixed with flour in various pro- portions, to destroy cancerous growths, and also the tubercles of hypertrophic lupus. The paste is rolled out to the neces- sary thickness, and allowed to remain on the part from 4—6 days. [Maisonneuve's Fleches caustiques, or caustic arrows, consist of 1 pt. chloride of zinc, made into a paste with 3 pts. flour and a little water, dried and cut into wedge-shaped pieces. Preparation :— Liquor Zinci Cliloridi, B.P., U.S., Burnett's disinfecting fluid. A solution of chloride of zinc in distilled water. Chiefly employed as a disinfectant of faeces, &c. Sometimes used as an injection in cases of uterine cancer, 1 pt. diluted with 64 pts. water.]