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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    but also because it is impossible for it to dry up, or become rancid, and so to excite irritation. It is not, how- ever, entirely without irritating properties, and it causes pain if applied to ulcerated surfaces, mainly owing to its powerful affinity for water. Wben powdered starcb is beated with glycerin, it swells up, and advantage is taken of this property in the prepara- tion of the officinal Glycerinum Amyli^ B.P., a translucent jelly containing 1 part of starch in 8|. It is successfully employed in the treatment of skin diseases, either alone or in combination with other remedies. It must be entirely free from smell, and uniformly soft and translucent. Especial attention should be paid to these points before applying it to irritated surfaces. Glycerin does not dissolve sether, chloroform, the resins, or the sethereal and fatty oils, and hence must not be ordered in combination with them. The most important points to be attended to in examining the purity of glycerin for medical purposes are, the absence of an acid reaction when tested with blue litmus paper, of any odour or discoloration, and the presence of a purely sweet taste. Glycerin is used in the manufacture of artificial wines. [Glycerin is an excellent—perhaps the best—application to the skin in congenital xeroderma and ichthyosis.] The following preparations of glycerin, some of which have been previously alluded to are officinal, B.P. and U.S. :— I tUTYh 1 Glyceri I ^^^^ I Addi CarhoUci. (1 pt. acid in 4|.) G^ly<^eri j ^^^ V Acidi Gallici. (1 in 41) Addi Tannid. (1 in 4J.) Glyceri | ^^^^ j Borads. (Sodii Boratis, U.S.) (1 in 4J.)