Pharmaceutical formulas : a book of useful recipes for the drug trade, comprising formulas for toilet preparations and specialties and preparations for the hair, dentrifices, perfumes, household and culinary requisites, beverages, antiseptics and disinfectants, inks, varnishes, confectionery, medicinal compounds, and many other preparations related to the art of pharmacy collated chiefly from The chemist and druggist and The chemists' and druggists' diaries / with annotations by Peter MacEwan.

Date:: 1898

Credit: Pharmaceutical formulas : a book of useful recipes for the drug trade, comprising formulas for toilet preparations and specialties and preparations for the hair, dentrifices, perfumes, household and culinary requisites, beverages, antiseptics and disinfectants, inks, varnishes, confectionery, medicinal compounds, and many other preparations related to the art of pharmacy collated chiefly from The chemist and druggist and The chemists' and druggists' diaries / with annotations by Peter MacEwan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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camphor (r to 4 is common) is the one generally used. Reduce the camphor to fine powder with the help of rectified spirit and gradually add the chalk, briskly triturating. Sift twice. Carbolic Tooth-powder.—Some formulas have already been given under Antiseptic Dentifrices. Here it should be mentioned that when carbolic acid is mixed with chalk or other alkalies it slowly combines with the bases to form a carbolate whereby the antiseptic power is not only diminished, but the odour of the acid almost disappears. The Chemist and Drug- gist has pointed out that one of the most popular carbolic dentifuces is made with precipitated silica or with fine white kieselguhr, such as ‘ Dimatos.’ The latter has not only great absorptive power and neutrality, but is in itself superior to cnalk as a friction agent, for each particle of the kieselguhr is the skeleton of a diatom. It may be used in any of the recipes given here, and the dentifrices may be tinted with carmine or otherwise. Terra alba (china clay) is also excellent for carbolic dentifrice, but lacks grit. 5™J- 5iss. ?5S. Terra alba (fine sifted) Orris-powder . Powdered white soap Carbolic acid ... Camphor . , t ^SS- Otto of rose . . . 1T]_Xi Solution of carmine a sufficiency Proceed as with No. in. 11 Pulv. myrrhse . Terne rosae Acid, carbol. . Pulv. sapon. castil. Otto rosae . 01. caryoph. . Cretie prcecip. . M. Hi Silicse pnecipitat. Pulv. sapon. alb. Acid, carbolic. Camphor. 01. gaultheriae . . Rub the camphor and acid to- §j- 5ss. 5SS. gss. 1TIXV. 5SS. oxvJ- 5V)J- §SS. gether and add § oz. of the silica, tri- turate well, and gradually add the ATSt , -the ingredients and sift. May be tinted with rose pink. IV Acid, carbolic. Pulv. iridis Pulv. oss. sepia; Dimatos. 01. gaultheriae 01. menthae pip. Carmini . Rub the carmine and acid with the orris and some dimatos and proceed as with No. in. 5b- §ss. ?ss. 5vij- nix. nfiv. gr. iij. Soluble Acid, carbolici Pulv. boracis . Pulv. sacch. lact. Pulv. sacch. alb. Pulv. cardamomi Ol. caryoph. . Terras rosae M. gr. vj. 5j- gss. ?.ss. gr. xv. nij. cps.

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