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
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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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    on addition of a few drops of sulphuric acid. The nitrate of sil- ver produces a white (cyanide of silver) precipitate; which, after being washed and dried, and then held on a watch-glass over a flame, burns with a fresh rose-colour, cyanogen being at same time evolved. When a mixture is to be examined, containing matters from the stomach, &c, if alkaline, it must first be neutralized by addition of sulphuric acid, then | part cautiously distilled therefrom into a receiver immersed in some frigorific mixture ; and the product may then be tested by nitrate of silver, as above. Gaseous (Narcotic) Poisons. CHLORINE, CARBONIC ACID, CARBURETTED HYDROGEN, SULPHURET- TED HYDROGEN, &C. {Obj.)—To avert suffocative symptoms, in the first place. (Treat.)—Remove the patient from the situation or apartment in which the poison had been inhaled; or open the doors, win- dows, &c, for admission of pure air; continued application of cold water to the head and neck. V. S. may be necessary; or cupping at back of the neck; cautious inhalation of steam from warm water placed in a convenient vessel. Tests. Chlorine:—Take a bottle containing distilled water into the tainted apartment, and after pouring out rather more than half the water, cork the bottle, and apply the tests directed for Muri- atic Acid. Carbonic Acid:—Proceed with a bottle of (lime) water, as just described ; the solution of lime acquires a milky appearance on being well agitated, if the said gas may have been in the at- mosphere of the apartment. A lighted candle will detect the pre- sence of carbonic acid gas (if in excess) by being immediately extinguished in the tainted atmosphere; it must, for this purpose, be held near the floor. [The utmost caution requires to be ob- served in introducing lighted tapers into close situations supposed to contain this gas, lest an explosive hydrocarbon may, instead, be met with.] III. ACRID NARCOTIC POISONS. Alcohol, Belladonna, Cocculus Indicus, Colchicum Autumnale, Digitalis, Fool's Parsley, Hellebore, (Water) Hemlock, (Spotted) Hemlock, (Poi- sonous) Mushrooms (many varieties), Nux Vomica, Stramonium, Saba- dilla, Tobacco, Veratria, Yeratrum Album, &c. &c. (Obj.)—To relieve the stomach and bowels of their poisonous contents as speedily as possible.