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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    (EademacTier), but it is now cliieflly used to colour ointments and mixtures. Preparation :— Tinctura Cocci, B.P. (Cochineal, 1 pt., proof spirit, 8 pts,) Dose, 3ss.—iss. CoUodium {C^^^^^4L^0^)fi^,). Collodion. (Pyroxylin, 1 pt., aether, 36 pts., rectified spirit, 12 pts., B.P.; pyroxylin, 1 pt., aether, 28 pts., rectified spirit, 8 pts., U.S.) The prepared wool used for making collodion chiefly differs from gun cotton in its solubility in aether, and in its smaller explosibility. In both cases its preparation depends upon the action of nitric acid upon fine cellulose (cotton wool), by which part of the hydrogen of the latter is replaced by nitrous acid (^Og). The gun cotton contains rather more nitrous acid than the medicinal pyroxy- lin. Collodion is used as a dressing for wounds, and also to compress inflamed parts, e.g., in erysipelas, mastitis, and orchitis. [It may sometimes be applied with advantage to protect the vesicles of herpes zoster, and also as a covering to chilblains.] K carefully applied in suitable cases it some- times is extremely valuable for compressing vascular tissues to which it is not easy to adjust an ordinary bandage. Collodion can easily be removed from the skin by means of acetic ^ther, in which it is much more soluble than in ordinary aether or alcohol. Preparation:— CoUodium flexile, B.P., U.S. (Collodion, 48 pts., Canada balsam, 2 pts., castor oil, 1 pt.) Used for covering exco- riated surfaces, burns, &c., and not for purposes of compression.