Materia medica, pharmacy, pharmacology and therapeutics / by W. Hale White.
- William Hale-White
- Date:
- 1899
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Materia medica, pharmacy, pharmacology and therapeutics / by W. Hale White. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Molliniim.—A mollinum is an ointment having for its basis mollin, a superfatted soap. It is readily absorbed, and also readily washed off with water. Nebulae.—Solutions sprayed into the throat by means of an atomizer. Paste.—A preparation to be applied as an ointment. Pastillus.—Pastils are lozenges having glyco-gelatin as a basis. Ferles are small pills. Pessus.—Pessaries are solid preparations made like sup- positories, and introduced into the vagina. Pigfiiientum.—A paint is a preparation adapted for paint- ing on the skin, throat, &c. Tablets or Tabloids.—Solid, disc-like or lenticular bodies made by compression. They are very popular, but are often useless, for they may be so hard and insoluble that they are found in the fteces quite unaltered. Triturationes are intimate mixtures of substances with sugar of milk. They are official in the United States Pharma- copoeia. Vapores.—Inhalations are preparations arranged for the inhalation of volatile drugs. Vaselmum.—This term is applied to an ointment the basis of which is vaseline. PHARMAC01.00Y A]\I> THERAPEUTICS. Before describing the actions and uses of drugs we must consider the manner, quantity, and form in which to give them. MODES OF ADMINISTRATION OF DRUGS. (a) Into the blood-vessels by injection. This method is rarely used in man, except that a saline solution (a tea- spoonful of common salt to the pint of sterilized water at the temperature of the body) is injected into the veins in cases of great loss of blood. (6) Into tlie subcutaneous tissues by hypodermic injection. The skin of the patient, where it is lax, should be raised between the thumb and forefinger of the operator's left hand ; the skin of the forearm is often selected. In his right hand he takes a perfectly clean syringe containing the quantity of fluid to be injected, and fitted with an aseptic hollow silver needle, which is thrust under the raised piece of skin, but not](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20388652_0048.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
