Manual of the medicinal preparations of iron : including their preparation, chemistry, physiological action, and therapeutical use with an appendix containing the iron preparations of the British pharmacopoeia / by Harry Napier Draper.

  • Draper, Harry Napier.
Date:
1864
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Credit: Manual of the medicinal preparations of iron : including their preparation, chemistry, physiological action, and therapeutical use with an appendix containing the iron preparations of the British pharmacopoeia / by Harry Napier Draper. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TINCTUKA FEKRI PEKCHLORIDI TINCTURE OF FEK- CHLORIDE OF IRON. Take of Solution of perchloride of iron, Five fluid ounces. Rectified spirit . . Fifteen fluid ounces. Mix, and preserve in a stoppered bottle. Test Specific gravity, 0'992. This tincture has one-fourth of the strength of tinctura ferri sesquichloridi.—Duh. [A fluid drachm contains 7*93 grains Fe^ CI3] VINUM FERRI WINE OF IRON. Take of Tartarated iron . . .160 grains. Sherry . . . . .One pint. Dissolve. [A fluid drachm contains 1 grain of tartarated iron.] SOLUTION OF PERSULPHATE OF IRON. Take of Sulphate of iron . Eight ounces. Suljjhuric acid . Six fluid drachms. Nitric acid . . Four fluid drachms. Distilled water . Twelve fluid ounces, or a sufiiciency. Add the sulphuric acid to ten ounces of the water, and dissolve the sulphate of iron in the mixture with the aid of heat. Mix the nitric acid with the remaining two ounces of water, and add the dilute acid to the solution of sul- phate of iron. Concentrate the whole by boiling, until, upon the sudden disengagement of ruddy vapours, the liquid ceases to be black and acquires a red colour. A drop of the solution is now to be tested with ferridcyanide of potassium, and if a blue precipitate forms, a few addi- tional drops of nitric acid should be added, and the boiling renewed, in order that the whole of the protosulphate may
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