Specification of Lewis Jacob Jordan : tonic.

  • Jordan, Lewis Jacob.
Date:
1861
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Credit: Specification of Lewis Jacob Jordan : tonic. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    3 A.D. 1861.—N° 1100. Jordan^s Nervine Tonic. Provisional Specification. 2. To obtain the hypophospbite of soda. Take of hypophospbite of lime, prepared as above 60 ounces. Carbonate of soda - - - • - 100 „ Water sufficient quantity. Boil and treat in the same manner as for lime salt. 5 3. To obtain the hypophospbite of iron. . Prepare by decomposing a per-salt, viz.‘per-sulphate of iron with hypo^ phosphite of soda, well washing the precipitate with water. 4. To obtain the hypophosphorous acid. Prepare by the double decomposition of hypophospbite of lime with crystallized oxalic acid in the following proportions:—* Hypophosphate of lime - - 8 ounces (apothecaries’weight). Oxalic acid, - - - - 6 ounces. „ Mix and dissolve each salt in separate portions of water, mix the solution & filter, evaporate the clear liquor to two pints or forty fluid ounces. - 15 5. To obtain pure quinse. Take of quinine of commerce \ pound, apothecaries’ weight; sulphuric acid (dilute), sufficient to dissolved the quinine; caustic ammonia, sufficient to precipitate the quinse; the precipitate to be well washed and carefully dried. LONDON: Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queens most Excellent Majesty. 1861.
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