Merck's manual of the materia medica, together with a summary of therapeutic indications and a classification of medicaments : a ready-reference pocket book for the physician and surgeon.

  • Merck Serono
Date:
1899
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Credit: Merck's manual of the materia medica, together with a summary of therapeutic indications and a classification of medicaments : a ready-reference pocket book for the physician and surgeon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Paraffin, hard and Paraffin soft (Vaseline). Both used in the preparation of different ointments. Paraldehyde Merck. — P. B. Colorl. fluid; cryst. below 10.5“ centigrade; peculiar, aromatic, suffo- cating odor and warm taste. — Sol. in alcohol, ether, oils, chloro- form; about 10 parts water. — Hypnotic, Antispasmodic, Stimulant. Uses: Insomnia, and as antidote for morphine. — Dose: 30—BO tfl (2.0—4.0 cc.), well diluted, with elixir, sweet water, brandy, or rum. Pareira — P. B. Diuretic, LuzetlTe, Tonic. — Deee: 30—60oti (1:1) Extr. 1)om: 10—30 (frn. (0.6—2.0 grm.). cc.). i. (^.0—4.0 grin.).— Pr^parationi P. E. Decoct. (1:16); Doie: i—ob (30 — 60 Pelletierine Sulphate Merck. PuNiciNE Sulphate. — Brown, syrupy liq. — Sol. in water, alcohol. — Anthelmintic. — Dose: 6V2 grn. (0.4 grm.); •edth 8 grn. (0.5 grm.) tannin, in 1 ounce (30 cc.) water. — Give brisk carthartic in half an hour. Pelletierine Tannate Merck. Grayish-brown, hygroscopic, tastel. powd. — Sol. in 800 parts alcohol, 700 parts water. — Anthelmintic Principal and most efficacious salt of Pelletierine. — Dose: 8—16 grn. (0.5—1.0 grm.) in 1 ounce (.38 cc.) water, followed in 2 hours by cathartic. Pepper — P. B. Dom: 2—aOfrn. (0.1 —1.8 grm.).—Pr.iKiro«on : Confoctio (I!10). Don: 60—180 grn. (4-8.0 grm,).—See *leo, Piperine. Peppermint. PreparationM*. Oil [D., 1 —4 min. (0.06—0.85 grm.)]; 8p4. (8 per cent oil); Trochee (one-sixth min. oil); Wster (one-eighth per cent, oil).—Bee also, Uenthol. Pepsin Merck. — P. B. — 1:50, Powd., Granular, or Scales, Dose: 2—5 grn. (0.1—0.3 grm.) Incompatiblbs: Alcohol, tannin, or alkali carbonates. Pepsin, Saccharated, Merck. — U. S. P. — i:300. Dose: 60—150 grp. (4—10 grm.). Peptone, Merck, dried. True peptone from Beef. Light bromi powder soluble in water. Nu- trient for convalescent, and invalids given in enema Va—1 oz (15— .30 grm.), in 3—6 oz (90—180 cc.) water. Excellent for gelatin, agar- agar and bouillon nutrient media in bacteria cultivation. Peronin. BeKZYL-.MOKPHiNE Hydeochlorate , Merck. — White powd. — SoL. readily in water; insol. in alcohol, chloroform, and ether. — Sub- stitute for Morphine as a Sedative and Anodyne. — Uses: Coughs, catarrhs, rheumatic and neuralgic pains, etc.- almost wholly free from the by-effects of morphine. — Va—>/a grn. (0.02-0 03 grm ) in pill or sweetened solut. several times a day. ’ Phenacetin, ~ tastel., cryst. powd. — Sol. in 1500 parts water, 16 alcohol. — Antipyretic, Antineuralgic,. Analgesic,