The medical formulary : comprising standard and approved formulae for the preparations and compounds employed in medical practice / by Henry Besley.

  • Beasley, Henry.
Date:
1856
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    the following processes:—E. Take of acetate of Jead, dried at 320° by an oil or metal bath (but Mr. Phillips says it may be sufficiently dried at 212°), 3yj, sulphuric acid f 3ixss. Distil to dryness at 320°. The product to be shaken with a little red oxide of lead and redistilled. D. directs it to be distilled from 52 parts of sulphuric acid, and 100 of acetate of potash. Acidum Acetosum, L. 1788, was made by distilling, by the heat of a sand-bath, crystallized verdigris, bruised and thoroughly dried; and redistilling the product. These stronger acids are chiefly used in preparing Aromatic Vinegar.] Acidum Aceticum Dilutum. L. 1824. (Acidum Aceticum. L. 1809.) Distilled Vinegar. See Acetum Destillatum. It is imitated by mixing 15 parts of strong acetic acid (Ac. Acet. L.) with 85 parts of distilled water; or so much that 100 grs. of the diluted acid may saturate 13 grs. of crys. subcarbonate of soda. Acidum Aceticum Aromaticum. E. 1839. Dried rosemary 3j, lavender flowers 3ss, origanum 3j> bruised cloves 3ss, acetic acid Oiss. Macerate 7 days, strain, express, and filter. This is substituted for the old Acetum Antisepticum, or Four-Thieves' Vinegar, which contained, in addition, rue, garlic, &c. E. 1817 directed distilled vinegar, for which the strong acid was substi- tuted in 1839; in 1841 the preparation was omitted. Acidum Aceticum Camphoratum. E. & D. Camphor (pul- verized with spirit) 3ss, strong acetic acid f 3viss. [f 3vi, D.] Acidum Antimonicum. [Ac. Stibicum, P.] Antimonic acid is precipitated when diluted sulphuric acid is added to the washings of Diaphoretic Antimony (Antimonium Calcinatum). Acidum Arseniosum. See Arsenicum Album. Acidum Arsenicum. Brande. White arsenic 8 parts, nitric acid 24 parts, muriatic acid 4 parts. Distil to dryness, and heat the residue to dull redness. Acidum Benzoicum. L. & E. Flowers of Benzoin. Gradually heat Benzoin, in a proper [glass E.] vessel placed in sand, till the acid sublimes. Press this between blotting paper, and re- sublime. [The Benzoin may be mixed with clean sand, and put into a shallow iron vessel, covered with porous paper tightly pasted to the rim, and over this a cone or hat of stiff cartridge paper. The acid, passing through the former, will be deposited on the latter sufficiently pure for use. The vessel should be