Practical prescribing and dispensing for medical students / by William Kirkby.

Date:
1906
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Credit: Practical prescribing and dispensing for medical students / by William Kirkby. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    lodoformum, gr. ss—gr. iij (3 to 20 cgm.) Solubility— Ether, i in 5 ; Chloroform, i in 14. Used externally as a dusting powder, an ointment (Unguentum lodoformi), a suppository, an application formed by dissolving in ether, chloroform, or collodion, and as an insufflation. Internally it should be given in pills massed with compound tragacanth powder and glucose. Incompatibles. Mercurous Chloride. lodum. Solubility—Alcohol, i in 12. Soluble in a Solution of Potassium Iodide. Occasionally given internally in mixtures (Tinctura lodi ni^ij—lT]^v). For external application it is used as a pigment (Tinctura lodi. Liquor lodi Fortis, Tinctura lodi Decolorata B.P.C.), a gargle, an inhalation and an ointment (Unguentum lodi). Incompatibles. Alkalis, Alkaloids, Metallic Salts, Mineral Acids, Ammonia^ Tragacanth, Starch. Ipecacuanhae Radix, as an expectorant gr. ^—gr. ij (i5 to 12 cgm.); as an emetic gr. xv—gr. xxx (i to 2 grm.) Given in mixtures (Acetum Ipecacuanhae, TT|^x— TT\_xxx; Extractum Ipecacuanhae Liquidum, as an expectorant, l^^ss—n]^ij, as an emetic, m^xv—Tl^xx; Vinum Ipecacuanhae, as an expectorant, V(]^x—lT(^xxx, as an emetic, 3iv—3vj; Syrupus Ipecacuanhae Aceticus, B.P.C., 3i—3ij) powders, cachets, tablets (Pulvis Ipecacuanhas Compositus, gr. v—gr. xv), pills (Pilula Ipecacuanhae cum Scilla, gr. iv—gr. viij) and lozenges