A manual of pharmacy / By William Thomas Brande.

  • William Thomas Brande
Date:
1833
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    nasal stimulant. A piece of blotting paper, or cambric, moist- ened with pure acetic acid, and applied to the cuticle, soon excites a burning heat, with much redness ; and if suffered to remain upon the spot for a sufficient time, the cuticle peels off. This forms a good occasional substitute for a blister, especially in inflammatory sore throat, where external irrita- tion rapidly excited is often singularly effectual in alleviating the internal tumefaction and pain. It would, probably, be a good application in croup, where a very quick external coun- teraction is wanted. The inhalation of the vapour of acetic acid has proved a useful remedy in hoarseness arising from local irritation of the larynx and epiglottis: it may be mixed in small quantity with boiling water in an inhaler, and used in the usual way. The vapour of acetic acid is sometimes employed for the fumigation of sick rooms, where its only use is to cover any bad smell; for it is perfectly ineffectual as a destroyer of con- tagious or infectious matter. The aphlogistic lamp, as it is called, in which the vapour of alcohol^ or of lavender water, or Eau de Cologne may be burned without flame, so as to form vinegar, also furnishes an elegant mode of fumigation. Common vinegar and acetic acid in various states of dilu- tion form a refreshing ingredient in diluent drinks in cases of inflammatory fever, and in those affections of the digestive and urinary organs which are attended by the appearance of white deposits or sand in the urine; (phosphate of lime and ammoniaco-magnesian phosphate,*) but lemon and orange juice, or other acid fruits, are generally preferred. Distilled vinegar is a proper addition to lotions containing acetate of lead ; diluted with rose or elderflower water, it does good in chronic ophthalmia ; and with vegetable astringents it forms a good addition to gargles in relaxed uvula and superficial in- flammation of the posterior fauces. A glyster of diluted vine- gar is sometimes used in typhus fever, and is a useful evacu- ant of the lower bowels. R Aceti fgij Infusi Aiithemidis i^v. ■ M. pro enemate. Acetic acid has sometimes been recommended as an effec- tual antidote to the narcotic poisons ; but the accounts which ■we have of its virtues in these cases are quite unsatisfactory, and the chemical history of opium and other narcotics by no means sanctions such application of this acid. ACIDIUM CITRIC\JM.—Crystallised Citric Acid. This acid occurs again under the Preparations, where the mode of obtaining it and its uses will be pointed out. It is properly