A new supplement to the pharmacopoeias of London, Edinburgh, Dublin, and Paris; forming a complete dispensatory and conspectus. Including ... the pharmacopoeia of the Veterinary College / [James Rennie].

James Rennie

Date:: 1829

Credit: A new supplement to the pharmacopoeias of London, Edinburgh, Dublin, and Paris; forming a complete dispensatory and conspectus. Including ... the pharmacopoeia of the Veterinary College / [James Rennie]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$‘quill or a glass tube™in order to preserve the teeth, in chronic hepatitis, cachexia, dyspepsia, typhus, lues, &c. As a lotion 3v to ibj of water in old, foetid, or spongoid ulcers. In fumigation, to. destroy contagion, place 3iv with 3ij of sulphuric acid in a saucer and set it on a pipkin filled with hot sand, when the acid will come over in vapour. Poisonous in large doses, producing burning sensations in the throat and stomach, excessive vomiting, obstinate constipation, and pert torture on going to stool. Antidotes. The best are large doses of calcined magnesia, or soap __ mixed with water or barley-water. Blood-letting and purgatives are indispensable when there are symptoms of inflammation. Tests. This poison stains the skin yellow as well as the coats of the stomach, which may be discovered on dissection. When boiled with copper filings it will exhale orange-coloured fumes, and ammonia will in that case turn the liquor in the vessel blue. Enters into Argent. Nitras. L. Ung. Hydrarg. Nit. L. Acid. Nitric. Dilut, L. Lig. Ferr: Alkalini. L. Spir. /Ether. Nitric. L. Hy: drarg. Nitrico-oxyd. L. Acrpum Nirricum Dizutum. L. Diluted Nitric Acid. rhitiass is pre« pared by adding 3j of nitric acid to 31x of water. The dose is mx to 1, Xxx in 3iij of water, sweetened with sugar in the same cases as the last, like which also it is poisonous. Acipum Nirrosum, See next article. Enters into Spir. Ether. Nitros. E. D. Ung. Acidi Nitros. E. D. Argent. Nitrat. D. Acid. Nitros. Dilut. E, D. Ung. Nitrat. Hydrarg. E. D. Actpum Nrrrosum Dinurum. Nitrous Acid. This is of a brown-red colour, while nitric acid is colourless.. Its properties and dose are the same as the nitric acid, like which also it is poisonous. Enters into Submurias Hydrarg. Precipitatus. E. D. Acet. Hydrarg. E. D. Submur. Hydrarg. Ammoniatus. D.{Nitr. Argent. E. Oxyd. Hydrarg. Ciner. E. D. Ox. Hyd. Rub. E. D. Acrpum. Nirro-muriaticum. Nitro-muriatic Acid. Aqua regia. O. Procured by mixing 3xvj of nitric acid with Ziv of chlorate [mu- riate] of soda, or tbij of hydrochloric [muriatic] acid with ibj of nitric acid, Dissolves gold. Decomposition. Both the acids are partially decomposed, and a portion of the hydrogen of the hydrochloric acid, uniting with a portion of the oxygen of ‘the nitric acid, forms water, and white nitrous acid and chlorine are the results. Medicinally it is used as a bath in hepatic and =ypbiliaid complaints,$