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
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![may be dissolved in fgi. of water ;' or the following ointment may be employed : Unguentum Creasoti, L. E. (Creasote, f3ss. (fsi., E.); axunge, ji. (§iij.s E.); rub and mix them, L. Melt the axunge, add the creasote, stir them briskly, and continue to do so as the mix- ture concretes on cooling, E.) [Creasote is much used in the United States, not only as an as- tringent, but as a caustic, a gargle in ulcerations of the throat, and especially in certain diseases of the ear. For this latter purpose, one drachm is added to three drachms of oil of almonds, and intro- duced by a camel's-hair pencil in purulent discharges from the ear, attended with deafness. Or it may be diluted with twelve times its quantity of the oil, and then poured into the ear. It has acquired a merited popularity by its success in these cases.] Creta, Chalk (described in the division Antacids), is employed as an astringent in the various forms of diarrhoea ; its beneficial ef- fects, however, depend on its antacid properties (see p. 29). Chalk mixture is very generally used as a vehicle for more active astrin- gents. The following preparation is admirably adapted for the simpler forms of diarrhoea unattended with inflammation: Pulvis cretce comp. cum opio, D. L. Pulvis cretcB opiatus, E, (Compound chalk powder, §viss. (§vj., E.); hard opium, powdered, 3iv.; mix them.) Dose, for adults, gr. xx. to gr. xl.; for children, gr. ij. to gr. x. Forty grains (D. L.), thirty-seven (E.), of this powder contain one grain of opium. Cupri sulphas, D. L. E. Sulphate of copper. Blue vitriol. P. P.—This salt usually occurs in fragments of large crystals, of the oblique rhombic prism series, semitransparent; of a beautiful blue colour; without odour, but having a styptic, metallic taste. Sp. gr. 2'2. C. P.—The crystals are composed of 1 eq. of protoxide of cop- per, 1 of sulphuric acid, and 5 of water (CuO, SO3, HO+4 HO). They effloresce slightly in dry air; at a temperature of 212°, they part with 4 eq. of water ; at 400° they become anhydrous and white ; and at a red heat they fuse and lose part of their acid. Sul- phate of copper is soluble in 4 parts of cold, and in 2 of boiling wa- ter ; it is insoluble in alcohol. It has an acid reaction. Prep.—It is an article of the Materia Medica in the three British Pharmacopoe- ias. On the large scale, it is usually prepared by roasting copper pyrites, sulphur ct of copper, exposing it to the air and to moisture until it is oxydated, dissolving out the sulphate thus formed, evaporating and crystallizing. Not liable to adulteration. Th. E.—Sulphate of copper n arge doses, if it oe not rejected by vomiting, is a powerful irritant poison, producing inflammation of the parts with which it comes in contact, and acting remotely on the nervous system, causing death, with coma and convulsions. In small but repeated doses, it operates as a tonic and astringent; with the latter intention, it is employed alone in chronic diairhcea and dysentery, in which it will often succeed in checking the dis-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21143614_0068.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
