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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    morphia with an ioduretted solution of iodide of potassium, keeping the liquid at the temperature of 140° for an hour. Pour off the liquid, wash the scales, and dry them. Dose, gr. | at bedtime. Morphia et Zinct Hydriodas cum Iodinio. Bouchardat. Boil 9j of ioduretted hydriodate of morphia with f^ij of water and 3x of zinc. After some days' action, filter the boiling liquid, which deposits the salt. [gr. iss in 8 pills, with marsh- mallow root and syrup; 1 or 2 daily, in gastralgia, &c] Mucilago Hordei. D. Ground pearl barley %ss, water f^xvj: triturate the barley with the water gradually added, and boil for a few minutes. Mucilago Oleosa. Mialhe. Powdered gum arabic gvj, white sugar ^iij, almond oil ^iij, water |>viij. Mix. As a vehicle for medicines, an excipient for pills, &c. Narcotin^ Murias. Exhaust opium by alcohol, add to the liquid sufficient ammonia to render it turbid; distil off f of the spirit, and let the remaining fluid cool. Wash the crystalline mass with water, then dissolve it in water acidulated with mu- riatic acid (Oj of water, and Jss of acid for each Ifej of opium) ; filter and evaporate to dryness. Dose, as an antiperiodic, 3 grains in the intermissions: in larger doses it is powerfully su- dorific and calmative, as well as antiperiodic. [Dr. Stewart.] Nicotia. M. Orfila. The vapor of tobacco is passed into cold water acidulated with sulphuric acid. An excess of an alkali is then added, and the nicotia set free is volatilized by heat. (An oily, colorless, strongly alkaline fluid, sp. gr. 1-048, boiling at 77° F. Very poisonous.) Oleum Allii. A volatile oil (sulphuret of allyle) is obtained from garlic by distillation, which is a powerful irritant. A stimulating infused oil, is used externally in palsy and rheuma- tism. Oleum Aloeticum. Distilled from socotrine aloes, as 01. suc- cini; externally, as a vermifuge. Oleum And^e. Obtained by expression from the seeds of An da Gromesii. Purgative. Dose, 20 to 30 drops in sugar. Dr. Norris prescribed 50 drops, but Dr. Ure found 20 usually sufficient. Oleum Anisi. From Aniseeds. Dose, 2 to 8 drops.