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

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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$The Glyceritum Picis LiquldcB (tar, glycerin, alcoliol, water, carbonate of magnesia; 1 in 20), is only contained in the U.S. Pharmacopoeia. [Pterocarpi Lignum, B.P., Bed Sanded wood. Obtained from Pterocarpns Santaliims (Leguminosae), a native of Ceylon, is only used to colour Liquor Arsenicalis and Tindura Lavandulce Composita. StapMsagrise Semina (not officinal). The seeds of Delphinium Staphisagria, or Stavesacre (Eanunculacese). The fixed oil expressed from them is an excellent parasiticide, especially in pediculi vestimentorum. It is colourless, and less irritating than sulphur, and frequently has no irritant effect at all (B. Squire). Best used as an ointment j 3j. to ^■. lard j stiffened in warm weather with 3ss. white wax.] The following ointments, which have not previously been mentioned, are also officinal:— (1.) Unguentum Simplex, B.P. (White wax, almond oil, lard.) {a.) Unguentum, U.S. (Lard, yellow wax.) (&.) Cercdum, U.S. (Lard, white wax.) (2.) Unguentum Cetacei, B.P., Spermaceti ointment. (Spermaceti, white wax, almond oil; 1 in 5.) Ceratum Cetacei, U.S. (Same with olive oil instead of almond oil; 1 in 9.) (3.) Unguentum Zinci, Zinc ointment. (Oxide of zinc, benzoated lard; 1 in 6J, B.P. ; 1 in 7, U.S.) [One of the most useful ointments for the treatment of eczema. It should be spread thickly and evenly upon lint, and firmly applied so as to exclude the air. For the relief of itching 3j.—ij. of spirits of camphor may be added to each ounce.] (4.) Ceratum Zinci Carbonatis, U.S. (Precipitated car- bonate of zinc, simple ointment; 1 in 6.) The following drug, which is only adapted for external use, may be inserted here :—$