Notes on pharmacy and dispensing for nurses / by C.J.S. Thompson.

  • Charles Thompson
Date:
1898
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Credit: Notes on pharmacy and dispensing for nurses / by C.J.S. Thompson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    arranged alphabetically in that work, and, further, take note of their chief characters and doses. Taking the British Pharmacopoeia as a guide, the first^group of preparations we come to are ui the waters. ^ The Waters of pharmacy consist of water holding in solution very small quantities of oils or other volatile principles. Dill, anise, orange- flower, carraway, cinnamon, fennel, cherry laurel, peppermint, spearmint, pimento, rose, and elder- flower are prepared by distillation ; while camphor water is made by maceration, and chloroform water by simply shaking a certain proportion of chloroform and water together. Cataptasms or poulpces are soft, /hoist, loc^l applic^ions employed either for /the sake /of their/moisture and temperature, ox on accc^nt of ^rtain peculiar Active remedi^ containqa in them, as in the poultice of hemlock. Confections ar^-som-etimes u^sed as a pill masses only,-or in other cases as methods of acijliiiustetuig remedies which are but slightly soluble, and require to be given in bulky doses. ^ They are about the consistency of ■presey-ve; j honey or sug€erusu^lly~ femung- the- base. Decoctions are^jwatery sofutrons of a vegetaWe ariil_jiLodioina^ prepared by boiling. With two .simple drug, after— being^^^xtepared,. is ...Boiled- for ten minutes of
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