Manual for medical and dental officers of the Royal Air Force / Air Ministry.

Date:
1938
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Manual for medical and dental officers of the Royal Air Force / Air Ministry. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    2 (2) cocaine (including synthetic cocaine) and ecgonine and their respective salts, and the esters of ecgonine and their Sm nlenes salts ; (e ) any solution or dilution of morphine or cocaine or “their salts in an inert substance whether liquid or solid, containing any proportion of morphine or cocaine, and any preparation, admixture, extract or other substance (not being such a solution or dilution as aforesaid) containing not less than 0.2 per cent. of morphine or 0.1 per cent. of cocaine ; ! (f) any preparation, admixture, extract or other substance containing any proportion of diacetylmorphine or of the other esters of morphine, and any preparation, admixture, extract or other substance containing any proportion of ecgonine or of the esters of ecgonine ; (g) dihydrohydroxycodeinone, dihydrocodeinone, dihydromor- phinone, acetyldihydrocodeinone, dihydromorphine, their esters and the salts of any of these substances and of their esters, morphine-N-oxide (commonly known as genomorphine), the morphine-N-oxide derivatives, and any other pentavalent nitrogen morphine derivatives ; (hz) thebaine and its salts, and benzylmorphine and the other ethers of morphine and their respective salts ; (i) any preparation, admixture, extract or other substance containing any proportion of any of the substances mentioned in sub-paras. (g) or (#) except, in the case of preparations of methyl- morphine or ethylmorphine, syrupus codeine phosphatis, B.P.C. 1934 and preparations, admixtures or other substances containing not more than 2.5 per cent. of methylmorphine or ethylmorphine (calculated as pure drug) associated with other medicinal substances. For the purpose of the foregoing provision the expression ‘ ecgonine ’ means levo-ecgonine and includes any derivatives of ecgonine from- which it may be recovered industrially, and the percentage in the case of morphine shall be calculated as in respect of anhydrous morphine. 2. These drugs will not be supplied more than once on the same prescription, provided that, if the prescription so directs, the drugs may be supplied on more than one, but not exceeding three occasions, as . directed in the prescription, at intervals, to be specified in the prescrip- tion. A prescription containing any of the drugs specified above will only be given by a dental officer for the purpose of dentaltreatment, and will be marked ‘ for local dental treatment only.’ 3. Exceptions.—These regulations do not apply to the following preparations :— Cereoli Iodoformi et Morphine, B.P.C. Cocaine Eyedrops—a preparation consisting of an admixture of cocaine in castor oil with mercuric chloride in a proportion . of not more than one part in 200 of cocaine and not less than one part in 200 of cocaine and not less than one part in 3,000 » of mercuric chloride. Elixir Diamorphinez et Terpinic. Apomorphina, B.P.C. Emp. Opii, B.P. 1898. Lin. Opii, B.P. 1914. Lin. Opii Ammon., B.P.C. Linctus Diamorphine Camphoratus, B.P.C. Linctus Diamorphine c. Ipecacuanha, B.P.C. Linctus Diamorphine et Scillz, B.P.C. Linctus Diamorphine et Thymi, B.P.C. Methylmorphine and ethylmorphine and their respective salts and any preparation, admixture or other substance containing any proportion of methylmorphine (codeine) or ethylmorphine (dionin) associated with an inert substance, whether solid or liquid ; and preparations and admixtures or other substances
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