Manual of general medicinal technology including prescription-writing / by Edward Curtis.

  • Edward Curtis
Date:
1895
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Credit: Manual of general medicinal technology including prescription-writing / by Edward Curtis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    [Metric System: 100 G.c. Mixture.'] Gm. 50 3. Olei Ricini 22 Yitellum Ovi unius. Tere bene simul; dein adde Syrupi Aurantii... 20 00 Aquae Menthae Viridis 45 00 M. Fiat emulsum. S.— One-half at a dose. G. H.,M.D., No. 2, Second Street. Office-Hours: 11 to 2. August 26, 1894. The third of our examples was for lemon-fla- vored citric acid, to be dissolved in water to the strength of ordinary lemon-juice, and then neu- tralized with potassium carbonate. Here our data for computing amounts are that we want about five or six doses ; these of tablespoonful di- mensions ; that a proper strength of the potion is afforded by operating upon a six-per-cent. strength of acid solution—which is about the acid strength of average lemon-juice ; and that about a one-tenth of one per cent, impregnation with oil of lemon gives the desirable degree of lemon- flavor to the solution. By the apothecaries' sys-