The dispensatory of the United States of America / by Geo. B. Wood and Franklin Bache.

Date:
1883
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Credit: The dispensatory of the United States of America / by Geo. B. Wood and Franklin Bache. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Gerstein Science Information Centre at the University of Toronto, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Gerstein Science Information Centre, University of Toronto.

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    fifty parts [or one ounce av.] of Sugar of Milk, cover it with a piece of thin muslin gauze, and set aside in a warm place, where the temperature will not rise above 50° C. (122° F.), until the mixture is dry. Lastly, having added enough Sugar of Milk to make the mixture weigh one hundred parts [or two ounces av.], reduce it to a fine, uniform powder. Preserve the powder in a well-stopped bottle. U. S. Abstract of Nux Vomica is well adapted to replace the extract, it having been the custom of late years to use the powdered extract largely in preference to the soft extract. If the fixed oil be not removed by the method noticed under Abstract of Ignatia, the abstract will be in the form of a greasy powder, which is not as sightly as the dry sabulous powder resulting when the fixed oil is removed (see Ex- tractum NucisVomtcse). The dose is from one to two grains (0-06 to 012 Gm.). ABSTRACTUM PODOPHYLLT. U.S. Abstract of Podophyllum. (AB-STRAC'TUM POD-O-PHYL'LI.) Podophyllum, in No. 60 powder, two hundred parts [or four ounces av.]; Sugar of Milk, recently dried and in fine powder. Alcohol, each, a sufficient quantity, To make one hundred parts [or two ounces av.]. Moisten the Podophyllum with eighty parts [or one and three-quarter fluidounces] of Alcohol, and pack firmly in a cylin- drical percolator; then add enough Alcohol to saturate the powder and leave a stratum above it. When the liquid begins to drop from the percolator, close the lower orifice, and, having closely covered the percolator, macerate for forty-eight hours. Then allow the percolation to proceed, gradually adding Alcohol, until the Podophyllum is exhausted. Reserve the first one hundred and seventy parts [or three and one-half fluidounces] of the percolate, distil ofi the alcohol from the remainder, and mix the resrdue with the reserved portion. Place the mixture in an evaporating dish, and, having added fifty jmrts [or one ounce av.] of Sugar of Milk, cover it with a piece of thin muslin gauze, and set aside in a warm place, where the temperature will not rise above 50° C. (122° F.), until the mixture is dry. Lastly, having added enough Sugar of Milk to make the mixture weigh one hundred parts [or two ounces av.], reduce it to a fine, uniform powder. Preserve the powder in a well-stopped bottle. U.S. This preparation has probably no advantages over the resin of podophyllum. The yield of extract to alcohol is about 10 per cent. The dose of the abstract is from five to ten grains (0-33 to 0-67 Gm.). ABSTRACTUM SENEGtE. U.S. Abstract of Senega. (AB-STRAO'TUM SEN'E-g^.) Senega, in No. 60 powder, two hundred parts [or four ounces av.]; Sugar of Milk, recently dried and in fine powder, Alcohol, each, a sufficient quantity., To make one hundred parts [or two ounces av.]. Moisten the Senega with eighty parts [or one and three-quarter fluidounces] of Alcohol, and pack firmly in a cylindrical percola- tor ; then add enough Alcohol to saturate the powder and leave a stratum above it. When the liquid begins to drop from the percolator, close the lower orifice, and, having closely covered the percolator, macerate for forty-eight hours. Then allow the percolation to proceed, gradually adding Alcohol, until the Senega is exhausted. Reserve the first one hundred and seventy 'parts [or three and one-half fluidounces] of the percolate, evaporate the remainder to thirty parts [or half a fluidounce], at a temperature not exceeding 50° C. (122° F.), and mix with the reserved portion. Place the mixture in an evaporating dish, and, having added fifty parts [or one ounce av.] of Sugar of Milk, cover it with a piece of thin muslin gauze, and set aside in a warm place, where the temperature will not rise above 50° C. (122° F.), until the mixture is dry. Lastly, having added enough Sugar of Milk to make the mixture weigh 07ie hundred parts [or two ounces av.], reduce it to a fine, uniform powder. Preserve the powder in a well-stopped bottle. U. S. This preparation is intended to take the place of the extract formerly oflScinal. It affords a convenient way of giving senega when a solid preparation is desired. The dose is from one to three grains (006 to 0-20 Gm.).
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