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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    Jry them by exposure to tlie air, carefully avoiding tlio contact of all orgauic substances. To obtain llic nitrate in rods, fuse the crystals in a capsule of platinum or thin porcelain, and pour the melted salt into proper moulds. Nitrate of silver must be preserved in bottles furnished with accurately ground stoppers. [If impure silver is used, the copper may be removed by washing the salt with pure nitric acid, or heating it iu an iron spoon, and again dis- solving and crystallizing.] Dose, gr. i to gr. Tonic. Externally it is employed as a caustic, and to arrest some inflammatory affections. By introducing a platinum wire as a core, it is rendered less liable to break when introduced into cavities. Either iodide of potassium or the cyanide will remove the stains caused by nitrate of silver.' The cyanide is a most potent poison. Antidotes for nitrate of silver.—Solut. of common salt and emollient drinJcs. Aegextum NiTRictJM CUM Kali-nitrico. G. Nitrate silver 1 part, nitrate potash 2 parts. Powdei-cd, mixed, and fused together, they make a milder form of caustic. The nitre may be increased from 2 to 4 parts. Aegenti^ Oxidu.u. B. Dissolve crystallized nitrate of silver gss in giv of distilled water, and, having poured the solution into a botllc containing solution ot lime Oiiiss, shake the mixture well, and set it aside, to allow the de- posit to settle. Draw off the supernatant liquid, collect the deposit on a filter, wash it with gvj of distilled water, and dry it at a heat not exceeding 212° P. Keep it in a stoppered bottle. 29 grains, heated to redness, leave 27 gr. of metallic silver. Dose, i gr. to gr. ij, in cases of gas- tralgia, pyrosis, nervous affections, ha;morrhagcs. &c., twice or thrice a day. Aegfnti Pulvis. Heat the oxide to dull redness in a porcelain crucible; when cold, triturate it iu an agate mortar, and pass it through a sieve. Aegenti Sulphas. Add gradually to a sol. nitrate silver, a sol. of sulph. .soda, until a pp. ceases to form, and wash and dry it. AENiciNUAf. Prom arnica niont;ina; as Ijobclina. Doso scarcely determined.