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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    exposed to a beat of 100° F. ; the sliced bulbs should be (h ied at the Same temperature. Dr. Wood. Dr. Hodlton •says tliat colchicum may be dried by placing the corrai, without slicing theui, in a dry situation, al'ter removing the loose coats, and carefully extracting the eye or bud, the rudiment of the future plant.] Barks are to be collected at the season iu which they fire most readily separated from the wood. [This, with few exceptions, is late in the spring, or early in the sum- mer. Bkande.] Serbs and leaves are to be gathered after the flowers .are fully blown, and liefore the seeds ripen. Fruits and seeds when fully ripe [and kept iu their seed vessels. ]S36.] Flowers when recently blown. Keep the parts of vegetables dry for use, unless other- ^wise directed. Let those you wish to dry be placed, soou after they are gathered, in shallow wicker trays, exposed to a gentle heat iu a current of air, the light being ex- cluded ; then as the moisture evaporates, gradually raise the heat to ISO^F., that they may be dried. Keep the more delicate parts, as the flowers and leaves, iu well-stopped black glass bottles, and the rest iu suitable vessels, pro- tected from damp and light. [Opium should be carefully freed from extraneous sub- stances ; and kept soft for pills, and hard (dried by water bath) for powders. L. 1836.] Vebateia. B. Cevadlila tbij, distilled water q.s., rectified spirit q. s., solution of ammonia q. s., hydrochloric acid q. s., purified animal charcoal gr. Ix. Macerate the ceva- dilla with half its weight of boiling distilled water ni a covered vessel for 21 liours. Remove the cevadilla, squeeze it,aud drv it thoroughly with a gentle heat. Heat it now in a mortar, and separate the seeds i'rom the capsules by •brisk agitation in a deep narrow vessel, or by winuowiug it gently on a table with a sheet of paper. Grind the seeds in a coflee-mill, and form them into a thick paste with rectified spirit. Pack this firmly in a percolator, and pass rectified spirit through it till the spirit ceases to be coloured. •Concentrate the spirituous solution by distillation, so loug as no deposit forms, and pour the residue, while hot, into 12 times its volume of cold distilled water. Filter through