Thomson's Conspectus of the British pharmacopoeias.

Anthony Todd Thomson

Date:: 1852

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$SIMAROBA. E. D. The Bark of the Root of Simaruba. (Simaruba Amara. Decandria Monogynia. N. O. Simarubiacece. Jamaica. T?0 Prop. The bark is inodorous ; taste bitter, not unpleasant; texture fibrous ; yellowish on the inside, darker on the outside, scaly and warty. Both water and alcohol extract its virtues. It possesses no astringency. Oper. Tonic. Use. In dysentery, chronic diarrhoea, lienteria, and dyspepsia. Dose. 3ss. to 3j. of the powder ; but the infusion is a better form of exhibiting this remedy. Off. Prep. Infusum Simarubce. E. D. SINAPIS. L. E. D. Semina. Mustard Seed. Sinapis Nigra et Alba. Common and White Mustard. {Tetradynam Siliquosa. N. O. Ciu- cifercc. (Brassicacea?, Lindley.) Europe. 0.) Comp. Sinapisin ; volatile, crystallizable substance; a fixed oil ; my- rosine and myronic; the two latter under the influence of heat react on each other, producing a pungent volatile oil. Prop. Inodorous when entire, but when bruised and the oil pressed out, the odour developed by water is very pungent; taste bitterish, acrid; properties yielded to water; the seeds give out a bland oil by expression. Oper. Stimulant, diuretic, emetic, rubefacient. Use. In dyspepsia ; a torpid state of the bowels ; and chlorosis. The seed is swallowed entire, or only slightly crushed ; a strong infusion of the flour is used to produce vomiting in apoplexy and paralysis ; externally the flour is applied as a cataplasm to the chest in pulmonary affections, to the heart in painful palpitation, to the side in hysterical pain, to the legs and the soles of the feet in typhus, and comatose affec- tions. Dose. 9j. to 3ss.; or f^ij. of the following infusion : — R Sinapis pul~ veris, Armoracice rad. sing. Aq. ferventis Oij. Infuse in a co- vered vessel for twelve hours ; then strain and add Spir. Menthoe Piper, f^ij. Off. Prep. Cataplasma Sinapis, L. E. D. Empl. Cantharidis Co. E. Inf. Armoracice, L. SODiE ACETAS. D. Acetate of Soda. {Soda Carbon, crystall. Ibj., vel q. s. Acidi Acetici venalis, sp. gr. 1-044, Oj. To the acid, placed in a porcelain capsule, add by degrees the carbonate of soda, and taking care that there shall be a slight excess of acid, evaporate the resulting solution till a pellicle begins to form on its surface, and set it by to crystallize. The crystals, when drained off the mother liquor, and dried by a short exposure to the air on a porous brick, should be enclosed in a well-stopped bottle.) Striated prismatic crystals. Comp. Acetic acid 36*95, soda 22*94, water 40*11, in 100 parts ; or 1 eq. acid=51*48+l soda 31*3+6 water=54, equiv.=136*78. (NaO, A, 6 HO.) Prop. Taste sharp, bitterish, soluble in 2*86 parts of water at 60° ; sp. gr. 2*1, effloresces in heat, but not in the air ; melts in a high tem- perature ; little soluble in alcohol. Oper. Purgative, diuretic, refrigerant. Use. In cases requiring a mild purgative; also in the same cases as acetate of potash. Chiefly used for making acetic acid. Dose. From 3j. to 5jv. in any bland fluid, or, as a diuretic, from gr. x. to gr. xx. Incomp. Carbonate of lime, sulphuric, nitric, and hvdrochloric acids. SODtE BIBORAS. D. Biborate of Soda. See Borax. SODiE BICARBONAS. L. E. D. Bicarbonate of Soda. (Sodce Car- bonatis tbvij., Aq. distil, cong.j.) Dissolve the carbonate of soda, and pass carbonic acid through the solution; then set the solution$

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