Pharmacy and dispensing for nurses / by C.J.S. Thompson.

  • Charles Thompson
Date:
1908
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    soluble and unpalatable drugs in an envelope composed of thin wafer paper called a cachet, has been largely employed on the continent, and France in particular, for a considerable time. Within the last few years this mode of adminis- tration has become very popular in our own country. The cachets in general use are those of Morstadt or Finot, and consist of two circular bowl-shaped discs with flat edges. The drug to be enclosed should be reduced to fine powder, and then packed into the bowl part of one of the discs. The edges of another disc, having been slightly moistened, are placed over that containing the powder, and the edges or rims pressed together. Several handy machines are made, by m.eans of which a dozen or more cachets can be filled and sealed with very little trouble. In this form the most nauseous drugs may be easily swallowed by the most fastidious patient. Capsules.—The capsule is another method of administering both solid and liquid medicines which has become very popular with prescribers. For liquid medicines, flexible capsules of gela- tine are made to hold from 5 to 30 minims. They are usually egg-shaped in form, with an aperture at one end, by means of which they are filled with the aid of a pipette, or small syringe. They are sealed by passing a camel-hair brush charged with a solution of gelatine over the