Notes on materia medica : pharmacology and therapeutics for dental students and practitioners / by Douglas Gabell and Harold Austen.

  • Gabell, Douglas (Douglas Phillimore)
Date:
1909
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    •^>0 Styptics. Source. The dried bark and leaves of Hamemelis virginica. Incompatihles. As for tannic acid. See p. 44. rreparations. Extvactum Hamamelidis Liquidam. Dose. 5 to 15 mins. Hazeline (a speciality ; not official). Dose, i to 3 drs. Pharmacology and Therapeutics. H/EMOSTATIC, ASTRINGENT. H/EMOSTATIC. Hamamelis contains 8% of tannic acid, also a volatile principle not yet isolated. Its local haimostatic action is doubtless due, in part at all events, to the presence of the former constituent. It is also reputed to have a remote luemostatic action when given by the mouth, and may thus be employed for the hgemorrhagic diathesis. The unofficial preparation Hazeline” is con- sidered by some to be more efficacious. ASTRINGENT. See p. 4S. Oleum Terebinthinae. oil of turpentine. Materia Medica. Source. The oil distilled from the oleo-resin (turpentine) obtained from various species of Pinus. Dose. 2 to 10 mins. Solubility. Does not mi.x with water unless ])reviously emulsified, hence must be prescribed with some form of mucilage.