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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![is not contained in the Dublin pharmacopoeia, but is commonly kept in the shops. It has been only used as a caustic in the bites of rabid animals, applied locally. Antimonii murias ; Antimonii sesquichloridum.—Muriate or Sesquichloride of Antimony ; Butter of Antimony—The muriate of antimony is a deliquescent white salt, but as it is not employed in medicine, the following description refers to the article commonly met with in the shops under that name. Preparation.— Either by dissolving sesquisulphuret of antimony ( Cinis antimonii) in muriatic acid, and adding pernitrate of iron as colouring matter ; or by dissolving crude antimony in muriatic acid with the aid of a little nitric acid. Physical Properties.—A transparent liquid, of a deep reddish- yellow colour, having the odour of muriatic acid, and a strongly acid, caustic taste. Sp. gr. 1*2 to 1'5. Chemical Properties.—It is composed of muriate of antimony, free muriatic acid, a little nitrous acid, muriate of iron, and water. It emits white fumes in the air ; left exposed, it evaporates spontaneous- ly leaving as a residuum, a white semi-crystalline mass ; mixed with water it throws down a yellowish-white powder, formerly called Powder of Algaroth, (oxychloride of antimony). Solution of muriate of antimony has a powerfully acid reaction. Therapeutical Effects.—It is employed as a caustic to parts bitten by rabid animals, its liquidity enabling it to penetrate into all parts of the wound ; the parts should be first dried as well as possible with pieces of lint, as all liquids immediately decompose this prepara- tion. Pure muriate of antimony has been used as an application to staphyloma by some German surgeons; a camel's hair pencil or a point of lint is dipped in the deliquescent salt and applied to the tumour until a whitish crust is perceived, when the whole is washed away by means of a large pencil dipped first into milk and afterwards into milk and water. In cases of poisoning with this solution the same treatment should be employed as in poisoning with muriatic acid. Argenti nitras, [U. S.] L. E. Argenti nitras fusum, D. Argenti nitratis crystalli, D.—Nitrate of Silver ; Lunar Caustic. Preparation.— Take of silver (flattened into plates and cut, D), 37 parts (§iss., L. E.) ; nitric acid, (dilute, D.), 60 parts (fgj., L. E.); (distilled water, f§ij., L. E.) ; dissolve the silver in the diluted acid, in a glass vessel, with the aid of a gentle heat, and evaporate to dryness; liquefy this in a crucible with a slow fire, and pour into proper moulds (into iron moulds previously heated and greased slightly with tallow, E.); preserve in glass vessels. The crystallized nitrate, D. now never used, is prepared as the fused salt, but crystallized by evaporation and cooling. Physical Properties.—A solid salt in the form of rods or pencils, smooth and polished on the surface, of the thickness of a writing pen. They have a crystalline fracture, and are of a greyish-slate colour, inodorous, with a bitter caustic and metallic taste. Chemical Properties.—Nitrate of silver is composed of one eq. of nitric acid, and one of oxide of silver, (AgO, NO5). It is not deliquescent; it is soluble in its own weight of water at 60°, and in](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21143602_0136.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
