The pocket formulary, and synopsis of the British & foreign pharmacopœias : comprising standard and approved formulæ for the preparations & compounds employed in medical practice / by Henry Beasley.

  • Beasley, Henry
Date:
1851
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Credit: The pocket formulary, and synopsis of the British & foreign pharmacopœias : comprising standard and approved formulæ for the preparations & compounds employed in medical practice / by Henry Beasley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    obtained be enveloped in calico, subjected to powerful pressure, and then dissolved in f§%xvj of oil of -vitriol diluted with 34 times its bulk of water: boil the solution for twenty minutes, allow it to cool, and set it by for a week. Let the deposit which forms be then pressed, dried, and dissolved in 3 times its weight of boiling water, filtering if required; and when cooled to 80° decant the liquid from the crystalline sediment, and wash the latter with fziij of ice-cold water. Transfer it to blotting- paper, and afterwards dry it at 212°. It may be rendered nearly white by re-dissolving it in 20 times its weight of boiling water, and filtering through animal charcoal spread on a calico filter, Dose, as an astringent, gr. iij, to gr. x. Larger doses have been given to expel the tape worm. Externally as a styptic. Acipum Hypriopicum. Dr, BucHanan’s Medicinal Hy- driodic Acid is made by dissolving separately 264 grs. of tartaric acid, and 330 grs. of iodide of potassium, each in fziss of distilled water. Mix the solutions, agitate, and when settled, decant the clear liquid, adding water to make up the measure f3vjf. [f3j contains gr. v of iodine. Dose f3ss to f5j, gradually increased to faiv. | Actpum Hyprocutorioum. The hydrochloric (muriatic) acid of commerce is usually impure, containing sulphurous and sulphuric and nitrous acids, iron, arsenic, &c,. The L. college gives no directions for its preparation or purifi- cation; but states that it should be colourless, evaporate — entirely by heat, give no precipitate with chloride of barium, or with ammonia or its subcarbonate; that it should not dissolve gold leaf, nor bleach solution of indigo. Sp. gr. 1:16; 100 gr. are neutralized by 132 gr. of cr. carb. of “soda, E, and D. give processes for obtain- ing it pure. . Acipum Hyprocutoricum Purum. (See Acidum Muri- aticum Purum.) Acipum Hyprocutoricum Ditutum. [Acidum Mauriati- cum Dilutum,K.andD.] L. Hydrochloric acid 3yv, distilled water, f3xv, mix. KE. muriatic acid fZiv, distilled water f%xij. D. pure muriatic acid fziv, distilled water f3xiij. AcipuM Hyprocyanicum Dinurum., L. Dilute or Medi-
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