Medicines : their uses and mode of administration / by J. Moore Neligan.

  • John Neligan
Date:
1864
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Credit: Medicines : their uses and mode of administration / by J. Moore Neligan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    antacids. Wd'with for ‘Pe <«It compound which is der)f)C!i+Prl'^*^+1 insoluble, being the repeated attacks of frout joints of persons who suffer from pbosphatic depositsin the urLr At T treatZof pf I’ alkaline carbonates and bicarbonates in the sSat l y 'T bicarbonate of DOSE AND MODE OF ADMINISTT? Attom Pi. -i- t i ■, ^AquaSod^ effervescens. (Bicarbonate of soda 3i • water Oi • dissolve the bicarbonate in the water, and saturate it with drbSic acid under strong pressure. Preserve the liquid in well-cbsed ves sels). _ This constitutes soda water, the form in which the bicarbo nate is most generally used ; as met with in the shops however bonZ^^T-^^ anything more than a simple solution of car- onic acid in water, not containing any carbonate of soda- this mav be easily known by adding some weak acid to the solution as soon when no Str Ze ^^^tle, wnen no turther effervescence will take place, unless tlie alkalinp carbonate be present. Dose, fSvj. to f.^dij,Zo or three tiLstlv Being usually prepared on the large scale by mineral water Zdorn t has been properly omitted from the Pharmacopoeia The soda water manufactured by Messrs. Bewley and Hamilton of this city is five different strengths, as followsNo. 1 contains 10 oraius^of ^ystallized carbonate of soda ; No. 2, 20 grains; No. 3 40 m-ains- No. 4, oO grains ; and No. 90 grains. ’ giains, INCOMPATIBLES.—Acids; lime-water; hydrochlorate of ammonia- and metallic salts, except those of magnesia. ’ ^SoDAi: Carbonas. Carbonate of Soda.' NaO,CO2+10HO We have two distinct sources from which we obtain carbonate of oZtT^ThZ^O^'' combustion of plants in which tliis alkali normally exists , the other, by what may be termed the artificial plan, a pro- CP.SS first suggested by M. Leblanc, whose name it bears ‘‘Leblanc’s tiieZher jl? Tto T if ^'vo substances, one called bakt.1, the other lelp both obtained by tlie incineration of plants generallv i’oZn<?to'^t] sea-side ; banlla being tlie produce of pLits hl l T a / Salicormfond Che- nopodium ; kelp, the produce of sea-weeds, principally the alom