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
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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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![of syrup (removing the scum, D.), D.L.—Infuse the petals in the water for six hours, strain and squeeze; let the impurities subside; pour off the clear liquor, mix with it the honey, and evaporate the whole to the consistence of syrup, removing the scum, E.). Chiefly <m- ployed as an addition to astringent gargles ; Dose, 5ij- to 5iv. Syru- pus Roscegallicce, E.—(Diied red-rose petals, §ij.; pure sugar, §xx. ; boiling water, Oj.; infuse the petals in the water for 12 hours, strain the liquor, and dissolve the sugar in it with the aid of heat). Princi- pally used for imparting its fine red colour to mixtures, &c. i Incompatibles.—All substances incompatible with tannin. Sod.*; boras, [U S.] D. Borax; Sodje biboras, L. E.—Borax; Blhorate of Soda. Preparation.—An article of the Materia Medica ; on the large scale it is prepared either by refining crude borax ot commerce, Tincal, a natural crystalline formation, met with on the shores of some lakes in Thibet and Per>ia; or by saturating native boracic acid, obtained from the lagoons of Tuscany, wiih carbonate of soda. Physical Properties.—Usually met with in large, translucent, colourless crystals aggregated together ; the crystals are either oblique rhombic prisms, or regular octohedrons ; inodorous ; with a somewhat styptic alkaline taste. Chemical Properties.—Crystallized borax consists of 1 eq. of soda, 2 of boracic acid, and 10 of water, (Na O, 2 BO3 + 10 HO); but octahedral borax contains only 5 equivalents of water. Exposed to the air it effloresces slowly ; heated it melts in its water of crystal- lization, which if the heat be increased is driven off, and a light anhy- drous salt, calcined borax, left; at a still higher temperature it fuses again, and as it cools forms a transparent solid, glass of borax. Borax is soluble in 8 parts of cold and in 2 of boiling water; the solution is alkaline, changing the vegetable blues to green. In solution this salt is readily recognized by adding sulphuric acid, which precipitates boracic acid rh pearly crystalline scales. Therapeutical Effects.—Borax is only employed as a topical astringent, as such it is used with benefit in aphthous ulcerations of the mouth and throat, in excessive mercurial salivation, and in some forms of chronic skin disease. (See Diuretics). Dose and Mode of Administration.—For a lotion or gargle, gr. xx. to gr. xxx. may be dissolved in f|i. of water ; or §i. of the fol- lowing preparation in f§v of water.—Mel Boracis, D. L. E. (Borax, powdered, 3j-; clarified honl^, §i. ; mix). The best form for ap- plying borax to aphthous ulcerations. Incompatibles.—The mineral acids', and most of their salts. [Statice. Marsh Rosemary. The root of Statice Caroliniana. U. S. secondary. Indigenous. Belonging to the Natural family of Plumbaginacea, and to the Linnaean class and order Pentandria Pentagynia. Statice has been found to contain about 12 pr. ct. of tannic, acid, with volatile oil, resin, extractive, colouring matter, &c. Statice is a good astringent, and is much employed in some parts of the country in the form of decoction or infusion, as a gargle in apthous ulceration of the mouth, sore throat, &c. ; and internally in diarrhoea. It is chiefly used as a domestic remedy.]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21143602_0081.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
