A companion to the United States Pharmacopoeia : being a commentary on the latest edition of the pharmacopoeia and containing the descriptions, properties, uses, and doses of all official and numerous unofficial drugs and preparations in current use in the United States, together with practical hints, working formulas, etc., designed as a ready reference book for pharmacists, physicians, and students : with over 650 original illustrations / by Oscar Oldberg and Otto A. Wall.
- Oscar Oldberg
- Date:
- 1887
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A companion to the United States Pharmacopoeia : being a commentary on the latest edition of the pharmacopoeia and containing the descriptions, properties, uses, and doses of all official and numerous unofficial drugs and preparations in current use in the United States, together with practical hints, working formulas, etc., designed as a ready reference book for pharmacists, physicians, and students : with over 650 original illustrations / by Oscar Oldberg and Otto A. Wall. 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.
![This remedy is used to reduce fevers. It is especially useful in in- flammatory diseases of tine lungs, in tonsillitis, acute pharyngitis, over- excitement of the heart, etc. In neuralgia it may be used advan- tageously—externally as well as internally. Dose.—0.03 to 0.12 gram (^ to 2 grains) of the powdered root. Average dose about 0.03 gram [^ grain). The doses of aconite preparations, as quoted by various authorities, differ materially, and this fact, in addition to the variability of the quality of the drug itself, makes it difficult to state doses. It is safest to commence with small doses and carefully increase them until the de- sired effect is obtained. Poisonous Effects.—In an overdose aconite is a powerful narcotic poison. The effects begin in a few minutes after the taking of the excessive dose, the patient complaining of excessive weakness and fatigue, to which is added stupor as the paralysis proceeds from the periphery to the centres, finally affecting the brain. The patient dies from paralysis of the muscles of respiration and of the heart, which latter organ ceases to beat in diastole, being too weak to contract. Antidotal treatment requires the prompt evacuation of the stomach and the administration of alcohol, ether, ammonia, or digitalis. Arti- ficial heat must be applied to the surface, and the failure of the heart's action overcome by subcutaneous injection of atropine or alcohol. The patient should lie down to prevent cessation of heart action through syncope. ACONITI [RADICIS] ABSTRACTUM; U. S. Abstract of Aconite [Root]. One thousand grams (35 ounces 120 grains) of aconite root in No. 60 powder is m-oistened uniformly (by rubbing between the hands) with four hundred grams (14 ounces 48 grains, measuring 16f fluidounces) of alcohol, in which has been dissolved ten grams (154 grains) powdered tartaric acid. The moist powder is run through a coarse sieve, to break up any lumps, and is then packed tightly in a cylindrical percolator, which is to be properly labelled. More alcohol is now poured on until the whole mass is entirely permeated, and liquid begins to drop from the exit tube, while a layer of the alcohol remains covering the top of the packed drug. The exit tube of the percolator is now closed tightly, and the top carefully covered to prevent evaporation. The whole is allowed to stand forty-eight hours to macerate. Then the percolator is opened below and the percolation proceeded with, adding alcohol on top, from time to time, so as to keej) the drug always covered, until](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21070866_0070.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
