Report on the U.S. pharmacopoeia ; Note on rhubarb, for 1869. Note on collodion / by F.C. Mussgiller. Liquor opii compositus ; by Edward R. Squibb.

E. R. Squibb

Date:: 1870

Credit: Report on the U.S. pharmacopoeia ; Note on rhubarb, for 1869. Note on collodion / by F.C. Mussgiller. Liquor opii compositus ; by Edward R. Squibb. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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$ide is only used for making tartar emetic, having been super- ceded in therapeutics by the oxysulphuret, or Kermes mineral. Should be oxysulphide. AXTIMONIl SULPnCRATUM Should be dismissed as an inferior and unnecessary duplicate of the oxysulphide. AQUA AMMONLE. Unless the muriate of ammonia be purified, or a wash bottle be used, the product of this process will not be free from foreign odor and empyreuma, both of which arc objectionable for medi- cal uses. It is questionable whether this process should not be omitted, and bo substituted by one of simple dilution of the aqua am- minoiiiie Ibnior. AQUA AURANTII FLORDM Should be transferred to the materia medica list. See Gob- ley's test. Proceedings for 1S6G, page 148. AQUA CAMPHOR.E. See paper by a member of the Association, Mr. CJ. F. IF. Markoe, in the Proceedings for 1805, p. 153. Docs the camphor not crystallize out of the officinal solution in cold weather 'i AQUA CREASOTl Should be filtered. AQUA DKSTILLATA. In this process is found a curious instance of the sacrifice of common sense to English grammar. The direction is Distil two pints, using a tin or glass condenser, and throw them away ; then distil sixty-four pints, and keep them in glass bottles. The throwing away the condenser is not justly chargeable to grammar ; but the sixty-four pints of water, requiring a relative pronoui\ in tlic plural, is grammatical nonsense. ARGENTI XITRAS. The solution should finally be evaporated to dryness, being stirred into a granular condition. This shortens and simplifies the jn-ocess, is more economical, and yields the product in a more convenient condition for use. The test by burning with sugar should be given here.$