A dispensatory and therapeutical remembrancer : with a full and distinct version of every practical formula, as authorized by the London, Edinburgh and Dublin royal college of physicians, in the latest editions of their several pharmacopias ... / By John Mayne ... Rev., with the addition of the formulæ of the United States pharmacopia, etc. By R. Eglesfeld Griffith.
- Mayne, John
- Date:
- 1848
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A dispensatory and therapeutical remembrancer : with a full and distinct version of every practical formula, as authorized by the London, Edinburgh and Dublin royal college of physicians, in the latest editions of their several pharmacopias ... / By John Mayne ... Rev., with the addition of the formulæ of the United States pharmacopia, etc. By R. Eglesfeld Griffith. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.
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![same manner as directed for Ext. stramon.foh, u. s.—or—Bruise in a stone mortar fresh belladonna leaves (sprinkled with a little water) Ibi.; squeeze out ihe juice, and evaporate it, unstrained, to due consistence, l.—or—Bruise to pulp any desired quantity of fresh belladonna leaves in a marble mortar. Express the juice; moisten the residual mass with water, and again express. Unite the expressed fluids ; filter, and in the vapour-bath evaporate to consistence of firm extract, stirring continuously towards the close, e.—or—Prepare in same way as succus spissatus aconiti, d. Use.—(Intl.) same as foregoing. Dose, gr. ss. (cautiously in- creased to) grs. ii.—grs. iv. (Extl.) rubbed into neck of womb to obviate rigidity or spasm ; it dilates the pupil when dropped (in solution) into the eye—some apply it undiluted to the ball of the eye. [extractum belladonna alcoholictjm, v. s. Alcoholic Extract of Belladonna. Prep.—In the same manner as directed for the alcoholic extract of aconite (Ext. aconiti alcohol), v. s. Use.—(Intl.) As the last. Dose to begin with gr. ss.—gr. i.3 emplastrtjm belladonna, u.s. l. E. d. Belladonna Plaster. Prep.—Melt by heat of a vapour-bath plaster of resin ^iii., and add to it extract of deadly nightshade ^iss.; mix, l. e. (the latter College orders a gentle heat, and brisk agitation after adding the extract.)—01—With inspissated juice of belladonna 51., and soap plaster ^ii., form a plaster, d. Use.—Against stubborn rheumatic and other local pains; violent palpitation of the heart; nervous irritability of bladder, and rec- tum. Camphora, v. s. l. e. d. A peculiar concrete substance derived from Laurus Camphora, and purified by sublimation, (u. s.) A peculiar Concrete purified by sublimation, (l.)—Camphor of Camphora officinarum, (e.)—from Laurus Camphora, (d.) [Dryobalanops Camphora is also given by the D. Ph.] Camphor. Use.—(Intl.) in putrid fevers, typhoid exanthemata; asthma, epilepsy, hysteria ; gout, gonorrhoea ; constitutional irritation from pneumonia, &c. &c. Dose, grs. ii.—9i. suspended in emulsion, Camphor. Acidi benzoic. R Camphorae Sacchari M.,et Ext. hyoscyami M. f. divide in chartulas pilulae. quarum capiat q. q. & Camphorae hora.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21013950_0200.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
