The pocket formulary and synposis of the British & foreign pharmacopoeias : comprising standard and approved formulae for the preparations & compounds employed in medical practice / by Henry Beasley.

  • Beasley, Henry
Date:
1877
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Credit: The pocket formulary and synposis of the British & foreign pharmacopoeias : comprising standard and approved formulae for the preparations & compounds employed in medical practice / by Henry Beasley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    capacity of at least one gallon. Connect llie flask by coi-ks and a bent glass tube with a three-necked bottle, furnished with a safety tnbe, and containing giv of water j then, applying heat, conduct the gas into a second bottle containing gl distilled water, by means of a bent tube dipping about half an inch below its surface; and let the process be continued until the product measures glxvj. The bottle containing the distilled water must be care- fully kept cool during the whole operation. Sp. gr. 1-16; 114-8 gr., ingss. water, neutralize 1000 gr. measures of the volumetric solution of soda. U.S. 31-8 per eent. of Iiydro- chloric acid gas. P. {Acide Morhydrique) 31 per cent. G. 25 per cent. Antidotes.—Calc. magnesia, or hicarh, soda in milk at short intervals. In the absence of these, chalk, soap and toater, or the 23laster from the ceilinij. AciDUM HxDBOCHLOEicuM DiLUTUM. B. Dihite hydro- chloric acid fgviij with distilled water f l-wj, then add distilled water till at a temperature of 60'' Y. it measures f 5xxviss. Sp. gr. 1-052. [f 5yj neutralize 1000 gr. mea- sures volumetric solution of soda, and contain 1 equiva- lent, or 36-5 gr. of hydrochloric add.] Dose inx—xxx. U.S. 1 to 3. (Acid 1-038.) G. p. re. acid and water f wt.). AciDTJM Htdeoctanicum- DiLtTTUjii. B. Dissolve ferro- cyauide of potassium giji in gx of distilled water, then add sulphuric acid f gj, previously diluted witli =iv of distilled water and cooled. Put them into a retort, and adapt this to a receiver containing gviij of water, which must be kept carefully cold. Distil with a gentle heat until the fluid in the receiver measures f gxvij. Add to this giij of tlic water, or as much as may be sufliciont to bring the acid to the required strength of 2 per cent, by wt. [Sp. gr.-997. 100 gr., or 110 minims, precipitated with a solution of nitrate of silver, give a precipitate of cyanide of silver, which, when dried, weighs 10 gr. 270 gr., reiulered alkaline by liquor soda?, require 1000 gr. measures of volumetric solution of nitrate of silver before a permanent precipitate begins to form.] D. Same strength. E. 4 per cent. U.S. 2 per cent, (wt.) anhydrous acid. P. 10 per cent, by wt. Antidotes.—?)j carh. potash dissolved in about g; water, and direct/// afterwards 10 ffrains sulphate iron also dis-