The pharmacopoeia of the Royal College of Physicians of London / transl. into English ... by T. Healde. Revised ... with an index shewing the general doses of medicines by John Latham.

  • Royal College of Physicians, London
Date:
1805
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Credit: The pharmacopoeia of the Royal College of Physicians of London / transl. into English ... by T. Healde. Revised ... with an index shewing the general doses of medicines by John Latham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    preparation as directed above fufficiently acid for the purpofes to which it is applied ; but the Edin- burgh College in diftilling eight pints reje& the firft product of the diftillation, viz. the firft quart, and draw over only for medicinal purpofes two others, thinking the remainder either too acid or too em- pyreumatic for general ufe, ACIDUM AGETOSUM. ACETOUS AciD. Take of Verdigris, in coarfe powder, two pounds. Dry it perfe&ly by means of a water-bath faturated with fea-falt; then diftil it in a fand-bath; and afterwards re-diftil the li- quor. | | Its fpecific gravity is to that of diftilled wa- ter as 1,050 to 1,000, REM AR K, Vinegar diftilled from Verdigris has a difagree- able fmell, and turns blue on being faturated with Aq. Ammoniz,—a manifeít proof that it contains copper, (Leenbardi Anmerk in Macquer’s Chem. Worterb. vol. ii.)—a portion of which it retains, according to Porner, even after a re-diftillation with a gentle heat.—According to Mr. Bertholet, ] 3 this
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