Medicines, their uses and mode of administration : including a complete conspectus of the three British pharmacopoeias, an account of all the new remedies, and an appendix of formulae / by J. Moore Neligan ; with notes and additions, conforming it to the pharmacopoeia of the United States, and including all that is new or important in recent improvements by David Meredith Reese.
- Neligan, J. Moore (John Moore), 1815-1863.
- Date:
- 1844
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Medicines, their uses and mode of administration : including a complete conspectus of the three British pharmacopoeias, an account of all the new remedies, and an appendix of formulae / by J. Moore Neligan ; with notes and additions, conforming it to the pharmacopoeia of the United States, and including all that is new or important in recent improvements by David Meredith Reese. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![acids, are strictly chemical remedies, and, when taken beyond the extent necessary to correct free acid, become irritants to the nerves of the stomach, and prove a source of numerous morbid mischiefs. The direction to combine them with vegetable tonics, while it miti- gates the evil by taking the antidote and poison together, will fail to remove it. A much better practice for removing acidity is to rely upon antacids only as a palliative and temporary remedy, and employ suitable medication and regimen, especially the latter, for removing the cause upon which the generation of acid in the stomach depends. In a majority of cases, it will be found that functional indi- gestion or incipient dyspepsia is the source of acidity when its pres- ence in the stomach becomes afflictive. The food, or any portion of it, remaining in the stomach undigested, becomes subject to chemical laws, and undergoes fermentation or putrefaction before passing the pylorus, and the generation of acids and gases is the result, which present us with the phenomena of flatulence and acidity, which usually coexist. In infant children, the improper quantity and quality of the food which is so often indiscreetly given is the source of the symptoms for which antacids are pre- scribed. In these, as well as in adults, therefore, proper abstinence and attention to regimen will soon correct the evil without medi- cation, if treated early ; but where the mischief has subsisted so long that the tone of the stomach is impaired, either by the disease or the treatment, the vegetable tonics may be resorted to, or any other agencies adapted to restore or improve the digestive func- tion.] Ammonite caustics aqua, D. Ammonite liquor, L. Ammonite aqua, E. Water of caustic Ammonia; Aqueous solution of Am- monia. P- P-—A colourless limpid fluid, with a pungent ammoniacal odour and a very acrid alkaline taste. The sp. gr. varies with the strength of the preparation; that of Dublin is directed to be -950, that of London and Edinburgh -960. C. P.—A solution of gaseous ammonia in water* Ammonia is composed of N. H3., or of 1 eq. of amidogene and 1 of hydrogen (Kane). At 32° F. water may be made to absorb 780 times its volume of the gas; the solution of the Dub. Phar. contains 10*5 per cent., that of Lond. and Edin. 8-3. per cent, of ammonia. It neutralizes acids, with which it forms salts ; gives a brown colour to litmus paper, which is only temporary ; and forms dense white fumes with the vapour of muriatic acid. Exposed to the air, in consequence of the volatility of the gas, part of it rapidly escapes, while the remainder, absorbing carbonic acid, is converted into carbonate of ammonia, which remains in solution. Cooled down to —40°, a strong solution freezes into long, silky needles; and at 50° it boils ; the weak solution of the pharmacopoeias boils at about 150°. Prep.—Dub. Muriate of ammonia, in powder, 3 parts ; recently-burned lime, 2 parts; water, 10 parts ; sprinkle one part of hot water on the quick-lime, put into](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21143596_0030.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
