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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    (2.) Sapo Durus, Hard Soap. Chiefly oleate of soda (NaCj 3113302)3, prepared witK olive oil and caustic soda (com- pare Glycerin). When given internally it is said to increase the secretion of bile, and also to accelerate the circulation in the branches of the venaportce, but no reliable proofs of the correct- ness of this theory have been adduced. The dose is gr. v.—xv. Preparations:— {a.) Emplastrum Cerati Saponis, B.P. (Hard soap, bee's wax, oxide of lead, olive oil, vinegar.) (h.) Emplastrum Saponis. (Hard soap, lead plaster, resin; 1 in 7i, B.P.; 1 in 10, U.S.) (c.) Ceratum Saponis, U.S. (Soap plaster, yellow wax, olive oil; 1 in 8J.) {d.) Linimentum Saponis. (Hard soap, camphor, oil of rosemary, rectified spirit, distilled water; about 1 in 10.) (e.) Pilula Saponis Comp>osita, B.P. (Vide Opium, p. 6.) (3.) Sapo Mollis, Soft Soap. Green soap, made with oKve oil and potash. [A solution of 2 pts. soft soap in 1 pt. alcohol, with the addition of 3j. spirits of lavender, forms Hebra's Spiritus Saponis Alkalinus, a valuable application in various chronic skin diseases.] When soaps are diluted with a large quantity of water, they break up into an acid and a basic salt, the latter .of which readily combines with free acids. Soap and water may therefore be recommended as an antidote, which is almost always likely to be at hand, in cases of poisoning by caustic acids. SpongisB Ceratse, Waxed Sponges. Plat discs of ordinary bath-sponge com- pressed and saturated with melted wax. They are sometimes used by surgeons to dilate orifices and cavities. The wax gradually softens at the temperature of the blood, and the X