Thomson's Conspectus of the British pharmacopoeias.

  • Anthony Todd Thomson
Date:
1852
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    colour; inodorous; taste feebly chalybeate, but not disagreeable. Slightly soluble in water, when pure. The solution in distilled water is not affected by a solution of nitrate of baryta, nor of oxalate of am- monia. It has an acid reaction on vegetable colours. Oper. Tonic, emmenagogue. Use. Chlorosis and atonic amenorrhcea. Dose. Gr. vj. to gr. xij. in twenty-lour hours. FERRI PRUSSIAS. U. S. Prussiate of Iron. Prussian Blue. Comp. Prussic acid 35*1, red oxide of iron 53, water 11 '9S in 100 parts. Prop. Inodorous; insipid; of a deep blue colour; insoluble in water and alcohol, and not decomposed by hydrochloric and sulphuric acids. Oper. Tonic. Use. In intermittents, scrophula, chorea, epilepsy. Dose. Gr. iij. to gr. viij. in syrup thrice a day. Incomp. Solutions of potassa and soda; lime, baryta. FRASERA. U. S. American Calumba. (Frasera Walteri, Tetrand. Monogyn. N. O. Gentianacece. ' United States. <J.) The root. Prop. Bitter without aroma. Oper, Tonic. Dose. Gr. x. to 9j. twice or thrice a day. GERANIUM. U. S. Crane's bill. (Geranium Maculatum. Mona- delph. Decand. N. O. Geranianacece. N. America. If..) The root. Comp. Tannic and gallic acids. Prop. Astringent (one of the most powerful of the vegetable kind). Use. In the second stage of dysentery and diarrhoea, after evacuants; in haemorrhages of the alimentary canal; and as a styptic in external bleedings. Dose. From gr. x. to 3ss. of the powder: f3ss. to f3j. of a decoction made with Bad. Geranii Aquce ferventis Oss. HEUCHERA. U. S. Alum Root. (Heuchera Cortusa. Pentand. Digyn. N. O. North America. %.) The root. Prop. Intensely astringent. Oper. Styptic. Use. In external haemorrhages, and in cancerous sores. INDIGO. A peculiar colouring matter obtained from the leaves of several species of Indigofera. (Diadelphia, Decandria. N. O. Legu- minosce. (Fabacece, Lindley.)) Comp. A glutinous matter, indigo blue (indigotin), indigo brown, and indigo red. Prop. Colour deep blue, shaded with violet; inodorous, taste somewhat metallic. Insoluble in water, cold alcohol, and in ether; partia.Uy soluble in boiling alcohol. Oper. Tonic, antispasmodic. Use. Idiopathic epilepsy, chorea, hysteria, convulsions. Dose. Gr. v. three times a day, increased cautiously but rapidly until §j. or more be taken in the day. (Compound indigo pills, indigo gr. xv., opium powdered gr. ij., extract of valerian, and extract of cinchonia of each gr. xxij.; mix, and divide into twenty-four pills. Dose, four daily.) INFtTSUM CINCHONiE CUM SUCCO LIMONUM. U. S. Infusion of Cinchona with Lemon Juice. (Cinchonce in puLvere Succi Li- monum f|ij., Tinct. Camph. Comp. f3iij., Aquce frigidce Oj. Macerate for twelve hours in a covered vessel, and strain.) Use. In cases requiring bark, attended with great irritability of stomach. Dose. From f2j. to f?iij. INFUSUM EUPATORII. U. S. Infusion of Thoroughwort. (Eu- patorii %)., Aquce ferventis Oj. Infuse for two hours in a covered vessel, and strain.) Oper. Emetic, diaphoretic, tonic, when given cold. Use. In fevers and inflammatory diseases. Dose. From f|j. to fjviij.
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