The London manual of medical chemistry, comprising an interlinear verbal translation of the Pharmacopoeia, with extensive ... notes ... together with the treatment and tests of poisons, and ... the theory of pharmaceutical chemistry ... / By William Maugham.

  • Maugham, William.
Date:
1831
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    ]2 Monadelphia Polyandria. JV. O. Columniferse, L. Mal- vacea?, J, Indigenous. It grows in salt marshes, and on the banks of rivers and ditches, flowering in July. Perennial. —Prop. Emollient. Used principally in de- coction, to form fomentations, clysters, and gargles.— Off. Prep. Syrwpus Alihoscs* ALUMEN. Alum,—Found native in some parts of the world, sometimes eflioresced on bituminous schists, or united with the soil as in volcanic countries. At the Sol- fatara, near Naples, it is obtained from the soil by mere lixiviation and evaporation; the latter process is carried on in pans sunk in the ground, the heat of which pro- duces the necessary evaporation. It is also procured in much greater quantity from schistose pyritic clays, or alum ores, by a peculiar process.—Prop. Tonic, astrin- gent—Dose, gr. v. to gr. xv., or more. Externally, it is used for forming astringent lotions.—Off. Prep. Alumen Exsiccatum ; Liquor Alum, comp, AMMONIACUM. Gum Ammoniac,—Heracleum gum- miferum. Gum-hearing Heracleum, Pentandria Digy- nia. N, O, Umbellatag. Africa and the East Indies. Cultivated in the botanical garden, Chelsea, where it grows luxuriantly. It is said that the plant is attacked by a horned beetle, which wounds it, and the gum exudes. The gum is also procured by incisions—Prop. Ex- pectorant, antispasmodic, stimulant.—Dose, gr. x. to 3ss. For its external use see Empl, Ammoniaci^ &c.— Off. Prep. Mist, Ammoniaci ; Pil, ScillcB C, ; Empl, Ammoniaci ; Empl, Ammon, cum Hydrarg, AM?tIONIJS MUKIAS. Muriate of Ammonia,—Until of late years this salt was imported from Egypt, where it is manufactured by subliming the soot of camel’s dung. It is now manufactured in Europe by double decomposition from sulphate of ammonia by adding muriate of soda; the result is sulphate of soda, and muriate of ammonia: the ^ latter is then purified by sublimation. The sulpljate of ammonia is prepared by lixiviating the spot of coal, which is highly impregnated with it; or it is procured for tlie above purpose by exposing bones, or animal matter, to