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.
- John Neligan
- Date:
- 1849
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. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Dose and Mode of Administration.—For children, 3i- to §ss., for adults, §i. to §ij.—Mannite, for children, 5ss. to 3ij-> for adults, §ss. to §i. Mel, [U. S.] D. L. E. Juice extracted from flowers, and prepar- ed by the Bee, L. Saccharine secretion of Apis mellifica, E. Honey- Honey is secreted by the nectaries of most flowers, from whence it is collected by the Bee, an insect belonging to the order Hymenoptera ; in the honey bag of the insect, which is a dilatation of the oesophagus, it probably undergoes some alteration previous to its deposition in the cells of the honey-comb. Honey is too w^dl-known to require any de- scription ; it is composed of grape-sugai^G&ne-sugar, mannite, acetic acid, aromatic principle, wax, &c. It is- sometimes adulterated with sand, with starch, or with wheaten or pea flour ; the first adulteration may be detected by dissolving in water ; the others by the action of tincture of iodine on the cooled decoction, which is rendered blue if any fecula be present. Dissolved in a large quantity of water, honey possesses demulcent and cooling properties; in a small portion of water it operates as a mild laxative. It is now but little used in medi- cine ; nevertheless, eaten at breakfast it is found very beneficial by persons liable to habitual constipation. Honey has in some instances proved poisonous, in consequence of having been collected by the bees from poisonous flowers. By melting honey in a vapour bath and re- moving the scum, Clarified honey, Mel Despumatum, [U. S.] D., is prepared. Both the flavour and odour of honey are injured by this process. OuViE oleum, [U. S.] D. L. E. Oil espressedffrom the fruit, {of the pericarp, E), of Olea Europoza. This tree, originally a native of Asia Minor, now grows freely on the borders of the Mediterranean, and is cultivated all over the South of Europe, especially in Provence. It belongs to the Natural family Oleacece, and to the Linnaean class and order Diandria Monogynia. Botanical Characters.—A moderately sized tree with hard, veined, wood; Leaves, in pairs, acute, hoary beneath, giving a whitish character to the foliage ; Flowers, small, white; Drupe, elliptical, dark-bluish-green, with a hard nut generally one seeded. Preparation.—The finer sorts of the oil are obtained by simply pressing the fresh, ripe, fruit in a mill; a second sort, by moistening the marc, left after the first expression, with boiling water and repressing it; and a third and very inferior sort by boiling this cake in water, and submitting it to very strong pressure. Physical Properties.—Olive oil is a transparent, unctuous fluid, of a yellow colour, pale or greenish according to quality, (the finer sorts being of a ligher shade) ; when good, odourless, with a bland, oily, taste ; by keeping it acquires both a rancid odour and taste, more slowly however than the other fixed oils. Sp. gr. *911 at 77? F. Chemical Properties.—It is composed of 72 parts of elaine, and 28 of margarin. Olive oil readily saponifies ; exposed to the air, even in thin layers, it thickens but does not dry. It congeals at 36° F.; is insoluble in water or in alcohol, but at 59° it dissolves in once and a half its weight of ether. Adulterations.—Cheaper vegetable oils, as poppy oil and rape-seed](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21143602_0109.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
