A manual of materia medica and therapeutics : including the preparations of the British pharmacopoeia (1867), and many other approved medicines / by J. Forbes Royle and Frederick W. Headland.

  • John Forbes Royle
Date:
MDCCCLXVIII [1868]
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Credit: A manual of materia medica and therapeutics : including the preparations of the British pharmacopoeia (1867), and many other approved medicines / by J. Forbes Royle and Frederick W. Headland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Garminic acid, and makes it valuable as a dye. It is used for giving colour to some tinctures. Tinctura Cocci, B. Tincture of Cochineal. Prep.—Macerate for seven days Cochineal, in powder gijfl, in Proof Spirit Oj. in a closed vessel, with occasional agitation. Strain, express, and filter. Add Proof Sp. to make Oj. Used as a colouring ingredient. [Syrupus Cocci, L. Syrup of Cochineal. Prep.—Boil bruised Cochineal gr. lxxx. in boiling List, water Oj. for fifteen minutes in a covered vessel, frequently stirring. Strain, and complete as with Syrup. Althcece, adding Sugar Ibiij. and Red. Spirit fgijfi, or q. s. Intended as a colouring addition to draughts and mixtures.] Order Hymenoptera, Linn. Apis mellifica, Linn. The Honey-Bee is officinal only on account of the Honey and Wax which it secrets or stores up. Mel, B. A Saccharine secretion deposited by the hive-bee in the honey-comb. Honey. Honey is secreted by the nectaries of flowers, and sucked by the Bee into its crop, where it undergoes some slight changes, and is then stored up in the comb. The finest Honey is that which is allowed to drain from thence; and, if obtained from hives which have never swarmed, it is called Virgin Honey. It partakes of the properties of the plants from which the bees have collected it. When of fine quality it is liquid and viscid, but translucent, having a fine, though peculiar odour, and a very sweet taste; but the best appears to some people slightly acrid, from an uneasiness experienced in the fauces. After a time honey becomes thick, white, and granular in texture. Inferior qualities are of a reddish-brown colour, granular, and intermixed with impurities, and are usually obtained by pressure of the comb. Honey is soluble in water, and a great part is taken up by boiling Alcohol. It is composed of crystallisable with some uncrystallisable Sugar, a small proportion of Mannite, and a little aromatic principle. The inferior qualities contain Wax, some acid matter, and impurities. Diluted with water, it undergoes the Vinous fermentation, and Hydromel, or Mead, is produced. Honey, if boiled in water for five minutes, and allowed to cool, does not be- come blue with Tincture of Iodine. (B.) This test is to guard against adulteration with starch or flour. Mel depuratum, B. Clarified Honey. Prep.—Melt Honey in a water bath, and strain while hot through flannel. Action. Uses.—Demulcent and slightly laxative. Chiefly used in gargles, &c. It is a constituent of Oxymel, and of the Mel Boracis.