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
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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.

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    As a first 'menstruum use a mixture of two hundred grams (about 8|- fluidounces) alcohol, and five grams (77 grains) tartaric acid. As a second menstruum use alcohol. Moisten the drug with the first menstruum. Pack it tightly in a cylindrical percolator. Saturate with menstruum. Macerate forty-eight hours. Then percolate. Reserve four hundred and twenty-five cubic centimeters (14|- fluidounces) of the first percolate. Continue the percolation until the drug is exhausted. Evaporate the second percolate to the consistence of honey and then dissolve it in \\\q, first percolate. Add enough of the second men- struum to make the whole measure five hundred cubic centimeters (or 17 fluidounces). For suggestions as to details, see page 451. Each cubic centimeter of this fluid extract represents the soluble matter of one gram of the drug. Each fluidounce represents four hun- dred and fifty-five and two-thirds grains, and each fluidrachm nearly fifty-seven grains. Dose.—0.05 to 0.12 cubic centimeters (1 to 2 minims), with care. ACOKITI LINIMENTUM. Aconite Liniment. ♦ Dissolve ten grams (150 grains) camphor in sixty cubic centimeters {2 fluidounces) fluid extract of aconite, and then add sufiicient soap liniment to make the whole measure one hundred and twenty cubic centimetres (4 fluidounces). In the Pharmacopoeia of 1870 the preparation called Liniment of Aconite was simply fluid extract of aconite, which name the prepara- tion now bears. Fluid extract of aconite root may be a good liniment in some cases, but we have'seen its application cause severe vesication. A diluted preparation like the one above suggested will probabl}^ prove sufficiently strong in most cases. Uses.—An embrocation, exceedingly valuable in painful affections or inflammations, as rheumatism, enlarged joints, neuralgia, etc. ACONITI [RADICIS] TINCTURA ; U. S. Tincture of Aconite [Root]. Moisten four hundred grams (14 ounces 48 grains) aconite root in No. 60 powder with two hundred grams (7 ounces 24 grains, measuring S^ fluidounces) alcohol, in which has been previously dissolved four grams (62 grains) powdered tartaric acid. Macerate twenty-four hours.