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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    140° F. for each inhalation. In jjhari/ngifis and lari/Htjilis^ lulien associated ivith exanthemata. The Throat Hospital Phaemacoposia contaius instruc- tions for administering a great variety of inhahttions, such as hot, cold, dry, spray, and fuming. Vaselin. Vaselin. The patentee of this preparation states that it is the residue of the distillation of petro- leum, purified by filtration through animal charcoal. He terms it petroleum jelly. Its indisposition to change by e.xposure to the air, as well as its negative properties, commend it as a substitute for lard in the prepara- tion of ointinents, &c. Cosmolin appears to be, if not the same, a variety of the same substance. VEaETADiLiA PciEPAEATA. L. 'Jhe purifled guni-resins and the pulps of fruit are noticed elsewhere, liiee Cassia Prajparata, Pulpa3, &c. The mixture should be constaiitli/ stirred. Mr. Beande recommends reducing the gum- resins to powder in cold weather, and passing the product through a sieve. M. Gobiey heats them in a tinned copper vessel, with 3-8ths their weight of proof spirit, stirring with a wooden spatula, and strains through a linen cloth. Vegetabilia Deceependa et Conseetanda. The follow- ing are the general directions given in the L. Pharmaco- poeia for collecting and preserving vegetable substances. A few additions from other sources are included m brackets. No directions are given in the British Phar- macopoeia. Vegetables should be collected in dry weather, when neitlier wet with dew nor rain. They should not be kept longer than a year. Most Boots and Ehizomes should be dug up when tlie old leaves and stallis have fallen off, and before the new ones shoot forth. [^»MMaZ roots, just before the time of flowering ; biennial, after the voge'tatiou of the first year has ceased; perennial,m the sjn-ing, before vegetation' has commenced. ])r. Wood.] Lay up the roots tliat are to be kept fresh, in sand. Cut the cormi of mcadow-saflVon, and the bidbs of squill, before drying them, into thiii transverse slices, after removing their dry coats. ]j. 183(5. [Plesliy roots may be sliced, and, afier drvino- in the air^