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

Beasley, Henry.

Date:: 1856

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

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$liquor, and adding with the fresh spirit, that which distils over. Mix the strained tinctures, distil off the spirit, and evaporate what remains to an extract. Dissolve this in water, filter, and evaporate the solution to the consistence of syrup. Add suffi- cient diluted sulphuric acid, mixed with distilled water, to dis- solve the aconitine, and throw down the latter by solution of ammonia. Redissolve the precipitate by more acid and water, agitate the solution with animal charcoal, filter, and again pre- cipitate with ammonia. Wash the precipitate and dry it. [Other authorities direct the expressed juice of the plant to be boiled, filtered, neutralized by carbonate of potash; the mix- ture agitated with aether, and the aetherial solution evaporated. It is an energetic poisony only used in outward applications.~\ Adeps Myristic^e. Oil of Mace, It is obtained from nutmegs by strong pressure. Adeps Pr^paratus. L. 1824. Cut the raw hog's fat into pieces, melt it over a slow fire, and strain through linen. L. 1836, directs the lard of the shops to be well washed with water. Adeps Oxygenatus. See Unguentum Acidi Nitrosi. [Another preparation of lard, intended to facilitate its combination with quicksilver, may here be described. The fat is melted and poured in a shower or fine stream into a large vessel filled with cold water; it is then placed on a hair or wicker sieve, in a cool dry cellar, for a few weeks or months.] Adeps Ovillus Pr^eparatus. Mutton suet is prepared in the same way as lard. Other fats are similarly treated. .ZErtjgo Prjeparata. Verdigris (diacetate of copper) prepared in the same manner as chalk. See Creta Praeparata. iETHER Aceticus. P. Rectified spirit ^xxx, strong acetic acid |jxx, sulphuric acid ^vji. Distil ^xl; agitate the product with dry carbonate of potash, and redistil, to obtain ^xxx. j^Ether Chloricus. The so-called medicinal chloric aether is an alcoholic solution of chloroform, of variable strength. Mr. Gruthrie obtained it by putting into a large glass retort Ibiij of chloride of lime, and two wine-gallons of rectified spirit, and carefully distilling one gallon. Mr. Redwood states that what is sold in this country consists of one part of chloroform to six or eight of alcohol. Dose, Jss in water, as an antispasmodic. .ZEther Muriaticus. Into a retort connected with a Woolfe's apparatus, put equal weights of alcohol and muriatic acid, and$