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.
![be a great improvement from the pharmacist's standpoint to substitute the soft petroleum paraffinoids, of which one is now ofBcially recognized in the Pharmacopoeia under the name of Petrolatum. (See that title.) The only official ointment in which lard may be required (for chemical reasons) is the ointment of nitrate of mercury, and even this prepara- tion might perhaps be better made with some other base. The keeping qualities of lard are so poor, and the melting point so low, that in the warmer portions of this country, and in summer, the use of lard becomes a positive nuisance. And yet it is- questionable whether any perfect substitute for lard can be had when we take into consideration the well- known fact that no other fatty substances are able to soften and pene- trate the skin as well as animal fats do. Lard and lard oil are far better mediums for inunction than olive oil, cotton-seed oil, petroleum paraf* finoids (such as vaseline, cosmoline, petrolina, etc.), or any other vegetable or mineral fatty matter. Medicinal Uses.—Lard is mostly employed as an ingredient of ointments ; but sometimes also for inunction in scarlatina and measles, so as to prevent the itching and the occurrence of complications, such as- taking cold, scarlatinal dropsy, etc. In fevers with hot, dry skin the inunction with lard reduces the temperature and pulse. It is very generally employed as a lubricant to the hot and dry membrane of the vagina in tedious or difficult labors, causing the parts to become soft and moist and facilitating the passage of the foetus; it is also used as an inunction to facilitate the removal of the sebaceous substances from the surface of the newborn child. Badly nourished, cachectic children are often much benefited by inunctions with lard or oils, and warm baths followed by inunctions of lard or cod-liver oil over the body, just before going to bed, will greatly improve the condition of delicate and spare women, who wish to gain fulness of form. The same treatment is of great benefit in cases of consumption, both by nourishing the patient and by preventing the taking cold by changes of temperature. When taken internally it acts as a laxative, having this property in common with other oils and fats. ADEPS BEKZOI]SATUS ; U. S. Benzoinated Lard. [^enzoated Lard— Ointment of Benzoin (1870). ] Tie thirty grams (1 ounce) of benzoin, in coarse powder, loosely, in a bag of coarse muslin and suspend it in one thousand five hundred grams](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21070866_0082.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
