The druggist's general receipt book : comprising a copious veterinary formulary, numerous recipes in patent and proprietary medicines, druggists' nostrums, etc., perfumery and cosmetics, beverages, dietetic articles, and condiments, trade chemicals, scientific processes, and an appendix of useful tables / by Henry Beasley.

  • Beasley, Henry
Date:
1872
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Credit: The druggist's general receipt book : comprising a copious veterinary formulary, numerous recipes in patent and proprietary medicines, druggists' nostrums, etc., perfumery and cosmetics, beverages, dietetic articles, and condiments, trade chemicals, scientific processes, and an appendix of useful tables / by Henry Beasley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    nnx, decant, and add 1 oz. of tartaric acid. Or, simple sulphuretted hydrogen water 4 oz., tartaric acid 1 dr. lnOMMER’s Test for sugar in urine. Put some of the suspected urine into a large test-tube, and add a few drops 0 solution ot sulphate of copper, then sufficient solution of potash to render it strongly alkaline. If sugar be present, the precipitated oxide redissolves into a blue liquid, and on boiling red oxide of copper is precipitated. [White merino that has been wet with a solution of bichloride of tin is said to form a ready test for sugar in urine, &c. oaa^13^ witb tllc susPe°ted liquor, and exposed to to 300 of heat, becomes blackened if sugar is present.] 1 he following is proposed as a quantitative test for sugar Dissolve 400 grains of pure crystallized sulphate of copper in 1600 grains of distilled water; add this gradually to a solution of 1600 grains of neutral tartrate of potash in a little water mixed with 6000 or 7000 grains of solution ot caustic soda, of 1‘12 sp. gr. Add water to make up the whole 11,544 grain measures (26 fl. oz., 2 fl. dr., o4 minims). 1000 grain measures are equivalent to 5 grains of grape sugar. Pettenkofeb’s Test for bile, in urine, Ac. Put a small quantity of the suspected liquid into a test-tube, and add to it, drop by drop, strong sulphuric acid till it becomes warm taking care not to raise the temperature above Ji- lain-. Then add from 2 to 5 drops of syrup, made with 5 parts of sugar to 4 of water, and shake the mixture. If the liquid contain bile, a violet coloration is observed. . Acetic acid, and those substances which are converted into sugar by sulphuric acid, may be substituted tor sugar. Tobacco Watee. See Washes for vermin on plants. Touch 1 apee. Dip a piece of white blotting-paper, or printing-paper, in a solution of 1 oz. of nitre in 8 oz. of water. Dry it perfectly. IiiEES, M etallic. Lead Tree. Dissolve 1 oz. of su<uir of lead m a quart of distilled or filtered rain-water, addin a few drops of acetic acid. Filter, and put the clear solution into a decanter or bottle. Suspend in it a piece of zmc, and set it aside. Siher Tree. Dissolve 20 gr. of crystallized nitrate of