A medical handbook : for the use of practitioners and students / by R.S. Aitchison.

Date:
1899
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Credit: A medical handbook : for the use of practitioners and students / by R.S. Aitchison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    V. —Soluble salts, with different acid and basic radicals—not belonging to the previous groups—can only be prescribed together, when actually known that they do not decompose. VI. —Mixtures containing siro?tg tinctures when prescribed with water, require the addition of mucilage, to suspend the resi- nous matter. Weak tinctures, although they render the mixture cloudy, need not be so suspended. VII.—Alkalies may be prescribed with solutions containing resi- nous matter, and they render them more soluble ; but acids precipitate resins. VIII. —Essential and aromatic oils should have some spirit or syrup in the mixture ; or mucilage must be used. Fixed oils and copaiba also require mucilage. IX. —Iron may be prescribed with infusions of quassia, calumba, or chiretta, as these do not contain tannin. X. —The perchloride of mercury may be prescribed with iodide of potassium, and also with ammonium chloride—the latter in- creasing the solubility of the mercuric salt. For a short list of common incompatibles, see Griffith's Lessons on Prescriptions and Prescribing, or Elborne's Pharmacy and Materia Medica. PRESCRIPTIONS. a. li.—Liquoris Arsenici Hydrochlorici, .... 5^* Tincturae Ferri Perchloridi, . ... 3iv. Infusum Calumbse (vel Quassias) ad . . ^v]. Misce. Signetur.—A dessertspoonful in water, thrice daily, after meals. Cardiac tonic. Anaemia. 2. R.—Quininse Sulphatis, gr. xlviij. Acidi Sulphuric! Diluti, ..... 5ij. Aquam ad ....... , o'^'j- Solve. Signetur.—A dessertspoonful in water, thrice daily, be- fore meals ; as a tonic. 3. R.—Quininse Sulphatis, gr- 'j- Ferri Redacti, . . . . . . gr. i. Pulveris Digitalis,. gr. i. Extracti Gentianse, . . . . . . q. s. Misce. Fiat pilula, mitte tales, xx.\. Signetur.—One pill, thrice daily, after meals. Cardiac tonic.