Materia medica, pharmacy, pharmacology and therapeutics / by W. Hale White.
- William Hale-White
- Date:
- 1897
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Materia medica, pharmacy, pharmacology and therapeutics / by W. Hale White. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Extractum Mezerei .Ethereum is not given internally; it is used in making Linimentum Sinapis Co, The extracts of Nux Vomica and Opium, and the liquid extracts of Cinchona and Opium are standardized. Glycerina.—Solutions of drugs in glycerine They are liquid preparations, used for external application, except Glyeerinum Tragacanthae (used to make pills) and Glycerinum Amyli, which are semi- solid. The B. P. contains— Olycerinum Acidi Carbolici ] Glycerinum Amyli — Acidi Gallici | — Boracis — Acidi Tannici — Plumbi Subacetatis — Aluminis | — Tragacanth® Infnsa.—Solutions made by pouring boiling dis- tilled water upon the drug to be extracted, then covering up the vessel, agitating horn time to time, tisuallj for half an hour,, sometimes for fifteen minutes, sometimes for one hour, and in one case for two hours, and straining. The filtrate is the Two arfe made with Cold Water. Inf. Calxiin'bse, to prevent the solution of the starch the drug contains, and Inf. Qiiassiae, to prev<ent the extractien 'of nauseous principles. For this last reason Inf. Chiratse and Inf. Cuspariae are made with water at 120° T. Inf. Gusso is not strained. Two are compound, vi^. Inf. Aurantii Co., Inf. Gen- tianae Co. Two contain acid: Inf. Cinchonas Acidum, Inf. Eos^ A'cidum. The dose of all is I—2§, except Inf. Cusso 4—8§, Inf. Lini ad libitum, and Inf. Bigitalis 1 —4 fluid drachms. Infusions shuold be made fresh, as they readily decom- pose. Injectiones.—Concentrated neutral solutions for injection under the skin. The pharmacopoeial in- jections are unsatisfactory, as they spoil by keeping. The B. P. contains— c](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20397161_0029.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
