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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    In the fourth example—the pills of blue mass, aloes, and rhubarb—the amounts are readily fixed. We want enough pills to last ten days or thereabouts ; and the nightly allowance of each ingredient is about—apothecaries' system—two grains. A daily dose, then, of two pills, each containing one grain of the several constituents, will answer the purpose, and, plainly, twenty such half-strength pills will be needed. We must, then, order a mass composed of twenty grains each of the three constituents, and direct this to be divided into twenty pills. Metrically, we would rate the daily allowance of the several constituents at ten centigrammes, and the amount necessary for ten days would then be, of each, ten times ten centigrammes, or one gramme. The prescription would then read : Example IV.— For Miss M. N. [Apothecaries' System: 20 pills @ gr. j. of each ingredient.'] :^. Mass8B Hydrargyri, [Pulveris] Aloes Purificatae, [Pulveris] Rhei aa 3j. Aquae... • ... q. s.