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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    [ADIPIS] UNGUENTUM ; U. S. Ointment. Uhguentum Simplex—Simple Ointment. Melt one hundred grams (3 ounces 230 grains) yellow wax, and then add gradually four hundred grams (14 ounces 48 grains) lard, stirring the mixture until cool. It is curious that although Simple Ointment was prescribed already in the Pharmacopoeia of 1870 to be made from yellow wax, the prepara-^ tion is comparatively rarely seen other than white. The singular feature; Figs. 10-13.—Maidenhair Fern (p. 71), natural size ; a, edge of frond flattened out, enlarged; 6, section through edge of frond, enlarged, showing the insertion of sporangia. about it is that an ointment made with yellow wax, as officially pre- scribed, is cheaper as well as better, and white ointment seems to be- preferred solely on account of the color. Used simply as a base for medicated ointments.