British pharmacopœia, 1867 / published under the direction of the General Council of Medical Education and Registration of the United Kingdom.

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1867
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    of the volumetric solution of soda, corresponding to 10-91 per cent, of anhydrous sulpWc acid. Six fluid drachms there- fore correspond to 33-2 grains of anhydrous acid. Dose—5 to 30 minims. ACIDUM SULPHURICUM DILUTUM. Diluted Sulphueic Acid. Take of ^ ^ Sulphuric Acid . . . • 7 flmd ounces Distmed Water . • • • a sufficiency DHute the acid with 77 fluid ounces of the ^a^^^''^f^^;:];^;! the mixture has cooled to 60° add more water, so that it shaU measure 83^ fluid ounces. Or as follows:— . , . 1350 grains Sulphuric Acid . - . • • Distilled Water •> Weigh the acid in a glass flask the capacity of l n,ark on the neck, is one pint, then graduaUy add disMled ^Iter until the mixture, after it has been shaken and cooled to 60°, measures a pint. - . t.^ T..^..-Specific gravity 1-094. 359 grains 1^7 --g^^ ^^ flxdd drachms) of it require for neutrahsation 1000 gram- s of the volumetric solution of soda, -responding to 11-14 per cent, of anhydrous sulphuric acid. Ichms therefore coi.espond to 40 grains o the a^ydrous acid (one equivalent of SO3, or half an equivalent of SO3). Dose.—5 to 30 minims. Preparation m ivhich Diluted Sulplmric Acid is used. Infusum Eosoa acidum . 1 fluid di-achm in 10 fluid ounces