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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$Oalcis Sulphas (CaSO^). Plaster of Paris. Sulphate of lime occurs in nature in the form of hydrated gypsum, and the latter when carefully heated loses about 20 per cent, of its water. When powdered and again mixed with water, it develops a certain amount of heat and rapidly becomes solid. The use of plaster of Paris in the form of bandages for the treatment of fractures is well known. We must be careful to avoid such plaster as by being over burnt, has assumed the crystalline structure of the anhydride on cooling, and no longer absorbs water. We should also reject any plaster that has been already wetted, and does not solidify properly on the further addition of water. Carbonis Bisulphidum (CSg). Bisulphide of Carbon. This liquid, with its atrocious odour of garlic, has been recommended for the most various internal and external uses, but is at present almost exclusively retained as a solvent for gutta percha. [Vide also I^^ote in Appendix A.] The evaporation of the bisulphide after the solution has been applied, renders the gutta percha available for stiffening bandages, &c. Bisulphide of carbon is inflammable, and its vapour explodes when mixed with oxygen. Coccus, B.P., U.S. Cochineal. The dried female of the Coccus Cacti, an insect living upon cacti in Mexico and elsewhere. At one time it was reputed to be a specific for hooping-cough$