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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1 his excipient, or any excipient containing glycerine, should not be used with powders of which borax and any carbonate are constituents, because glycerine reacts with borax, liberating boric acid (in presence of water), which in its tum acts upon the carbonate, setting free carbonic-acid gas. The paste then becomes spongy. Powders containing soap should be made rather to the thm Slde at first, because the soap gradually gets into solution, and the paste in consequence stiffens with age. Areca Tooth-paste i Crete pracipitat. Terra rosas Pulv. arecce Pulv. sacchar. alb. Ol. caryophyll. 01. cinnamom. Glycerini Aq. rosse _ Mix the powders, sift through a No. 140 sieve, sprinkle on the per- fumes, and sift through a No. 40 sieve ; then mass. This method to be followed when general direc- tions only are given. 5xvj- syj- 3>T 5“j- 5ss. rrpcx. ST q.S. Crete pracipitat. Pulv. oss. sepiae Pulv. arecae Ol. lavandul. Ol. cinnamom Otto rosse Mellis Glycerini Aq. rosae M.S.A. n Syj. 3ss. giss. nix. iilvj. miij. ST Sss. cps. Antiseptic Dental Cream Precipitated chalk . Powdered white soap Salicylate of sodium Oil of rose-geranium Oil of wintergreen . Solution of carmine Glycerine (4) ] Water (1) j xx. 5V- 5j- gr- uiiv. niiij. triij. a sufficiency oils, and continue trituration until well mixed ; then make into a paste of the desired consistency with glycerine and water mixed in the proportions given, add the solution of carmine, and rub all together until a smooth, creamy paste results. Carbolic Tooth-paste 1 M,elIis. .• • • . §xvj. Glycerini . . , £V- Melt together and add the fol- lowing, previously mixed and sifted : — Crete pracipit. Pulv. iridis Carmini . Acid, carbol. . Ol. gaultherte 01. cinnamom. Spt. rectificat. 3xvj- Siv- 5J- 5ss. uixx. mv. n Triturate the powders, add the Precipitated silica I Carmine . Powdered orris Carbolic acid . Oil of wdntergreen Oil of peppermint Saccharin Glycerine , Rose-water Triturate the carmine and the saccharin with the silica and orris and sift , add the other ingredient! and make into a paste. IV- Bj- sj- 5SS. itlviij. iilv. gr- ij. 5T- u sufficiency

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