Volume 1

The medical directory for Ireland. 1852, 1856, 1858-60.

Date:
1852-60
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The medical directory for Ireland. 1852, 1856, 1858-60. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    moon’s changes. Lftst Quarter 6tli day 10b. 36m. morn. New Moon 13th day 7b. 14m. morn. First Quarter 19th day llli. 56m. aftem. Full Moon ...» 27th day llh. 54m. aftern. Dat OF Month. ANNIVERSARIES AND MEETINGS OE MEDICAL SOCIETIES, &0, Sun ] Sun rises | sets at London. 1 F Pheasant shooting begins. H 6 M. 3 H. M. 5 37 2 S 6 5 5 34 3 S Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity. 6 7 5 32 4 M Dublin Univ. Philos. Soc. 6 9 5 29 5 Tu 6 11 5 27 6 W Assoc. Fell, and Lie. King and Queen’s Coll, of Phys. 6 12 5 25 7 Th 6 14 5 22 8 F Lord Erskine died, 1817. 6 16 5 20 9 S 6 17 5 18 10 £ Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity. 6 19 5 15 11 M 6 20 5 13 12 Tu America discovered, 1492. 6 22 5 10 13 W 6 23 5 8 14 Th 6 25 5 6 15 F Dr. Gill died, 1771. 6 26 5 4 16 S 6 28 5 2 17 £ Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity. 6 29 5 0 18 M 6 31 4 58 19 Tu Dean Swift died, 1745. 6 32 4 56 20 W 6 34 4 54 21 Th Battle of Trafalgar, 1805. 6 36 4 52 22 F 6 38 4 49 23 S Irish Rebellion, 1641. 6 40 4 47 24 £ Twentieth Sunday after Trinity. 6 42 4 45 25 M Battle of Agincourt, 1415. 6 44 4 43 26 Tu 6 46 4 41 27 W 6 48 4 39 28 Th Bristol riots, 1831. 6 50 4 37 29 F 6 61 4 36 30 S Dubl. Obstet. Soc. Tower Armoury burnt, 1841. 6 53 4 34 31 £ Twenty-first Sunday after Trinity. 6 55 4 32 New Method oe Preparing Powders for Usb in Medicine.—A simple, and often probably, an excellent and available method is recommended by a Ger- man apothecary, Wittke of Erfurt, by which the bulk of the dose of a substance in powder may be exceedingly reduced. It is admitted that the active properties of very many medicinal substances are best extracted by alcohol, and that these pro- Serties, therefore, are to be found in tinctures ; but the quantity of spirit in the ose of a tincture often renders that form of administration inadmissible. Wittke, therefore mixes tincture of hellebore, cinchona, &c., with an equal quantity of sugar, evaporates to dryness, and powders the residuum. In this manner, he suc- ceeds in concentrating in a small bulk, the active portion of a very large quantity of the drug. He prescribes the preparation as saccharized cinchona, Ac. These saccharine powders bear some analogy to conserves, from which, however, they differ in being free from mucilage, vegetable albumen, and other inert matters.
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