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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    Acidum Pyroligneum. E. An impure acetic acid procured by the destructive distillation of wood. Sp. gr. 1-034. 100 grains neutralize 53 of carb. soda. Acidum Saccharicum. Saccharic acid is obtained by accurately decomposing saccharate of barytes by sulphuric acid. Acidum Succinicum. D. Acid, or Salt of Amber. Mix amber with its weight of sand, and distil. Press the crystals in bibu- lous paper, and resublime. Dose, 4 to 12 or 15 grains. Acidum Sulphuricum Purum. E. & D. The commercial acid purified by distillation in glass, rejecting the first 12th or 16th part. [No luting, or corks, should be used. A few strips of platinum in the retort will moderate the ebullition. Sulphuric acid may be freed from nitrous acid, by heating f Jjviij with 10 or 15 grs. of sugar. E. A little sulphuret of barium, in so- lution, will remove the metallic impurities.] Acidum Sulpuhricum Dilutum. L. Spirit of Vitriol. To f ^xivss of distilled water, add gradually f ^iss of sulphuric acid, and mix. E. directs f^j of acid to f ,§xiij of water. D. One part by weight of acid to 7 of water. Dose, tr^x to xxx, properly diluted. Acidum Sulphuricum Alcoholisatum. P. Eau de Rabel. Add gradually 1 part of sulphuric acid to 3 parts of rectified spirit, by weight. [From 3ss to Jj to Oij of water as an acidu- lous drink. Externally as an escharotic. It is sometimes co- loured with cochineal.] Acidum Sulphuricum Aromaticum. E. Elixir of Vitriol. Sulphuric acid f ^iijss, rectified spirit Oiss, cinnamon bruised ^iss, ginger bruised |jj. Digest for 6 days and strain. L. 1746, directs |jiv, by weight, of sulphuric acid, to be added to f ^xvj of compound tincture of cinnamon. Dose, -n^ v to xv. Acidum Sulphydricum (hydrosulphuricum) Aqua Solutum. P. Cold water fully saturated with sulphuretted hydrogen gas, procured from sulphuret of iron, and dil. sulphuric acid. Acidum Sulphurosum Aqua Solutum. P. Sulphurous acid gas (procured by gently heating 3 parts of sulphuric acid with 2 of quicksilver, in a glass matrass) is to be conveyed, first through a very little water to purify the gas, and then into the water to be charged, till the latter is fully saturated. A Woolfe's apparatus should be used, with a tube passing from the last bottle into a vessel of moistened chalk, to absorb the excess of gas.