Medicines, their uses and mode of administration : including a complete conspectus of the three British pharmacopoeias, an account of all the new remedies, and appendix of formulae / by J. Moore Neligan ; with notes and additions, conforming it to the pharmacopoeia of the United States, and including all that is new or important in recent improvements by David Meredith Reese.

John Neligan

Date:: 1851

Credit: Medicines, their uses and mode of administration : including a complete conspectus of the three British pharmacopoeias, an account of all the new remedies, and appendix of formulae / by J. Moore Neligan ; with notes and additions, conforming it to the pharmacopoeia of the United States, and including all that is new or important in recent improvements by David Meredith Reese. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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pills, and hard for powdering, L.) Dose, gr. x. to 3i.—Extrac- tum sloe Resina Jalapce, E. (Take any convenient quantity of jal- ap in moderately fine powder, mix it thoroughly With enough of rectified spirit to moisten it well, put it, in 12 hours, into a perco- lator, and exhaust the powder with rectified spirit; distil otf the greater part of the spirit, and concentrate the residuum over the vapour-bath to a due consistence.) This is the impure resin ; the dose is from gr. iij. to gr. x.; it should be given in a state of mi- nute division, for which purpose it may be rubbed with sugar or some mild powder, or made into an emulsion with milk, sugar, and almonds. — Sapo Jalapinus, Pr. (Castile soap and jalap resin, equal parts; rectified spirit, q. s.; dissolve, and evaporate with a gentle heat to the consistence of a conserve.) Dose, gr. xij. to 3i., for adults ; gr. iij. to gr. vj., for children.—Tinctura Jalapce, D. L. E. (Jalap, in coarse powder (bruised, L.), §viij. (§x., L. ; §vij., E.) ; proof spirit, by measure, Ibij. (Oij., L. E.) ; macerate for 7 (14, D. L.) days, and strain ; or may be prepared by percolation, E.) Dose, f5j. to f3iv.—Sirup of Jalap, P. (Jalap, 20 parts; corian- der and fennel seeds, of each 1 part; water, 200 parts ; sugar, 400 parts ; mix. Dose, fsij. to f3iv. [Juglans cinerea, U. S. P. {Butternut. Monascia Polyandria. Indigenous.) P. & C. P. — The inner bark fibrous; bitter and slightly acrid taste, but little odour ; yields all its virtues to boiling water. Tfi. E.—Cathartic, analogous in its action to rhubarb, and often useful in habitual constipation. D. & M. of Adm.—The powder made of the inner bark of the root is given in doses of 10 to 30 grs., as a cathartic, or 5 grs., re- peated, as a laxative. It is usual to combine it with calomel for purgative purposes. — Extraction Juglandis, U. S. P. Take a pound of the inner bark of the root, reduced to coarse powder, pour upon it a pint of water, let it stand for 24 hours, and treat it by displacement, pouring more water upon it, until it .passes but slightly impregnated with the root. Then heat the filtered liquid to the boiling point, strain, and evaporate to the proper consistence. Dose, 5 grs. to a scruple.] Linum catharticum, E. Purging jlax.—K slender indigenous annual from two to six inches high, with small white flowers, droop- ing before expansion. It belongs to the natural family Linacece, and to the Linnsean class and order Pentandria Monogynia. The whole herb is officinal; it is void of odour, but has an intensely bit- ter taste. It was formerly held in high esteem as a cathartic and diuretic; at present it is never used in regular practice, and has only been retained in the Edinburgh Pharmacopoei-a on the author- ity of Dr. Christison, as a useful indigenous cathartic, in doses of a drachm of the powder, or an infusion of two or three drachms of the herb.

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