Pye's surgical handicraft : a manual of surgical manipulations, minor surgery and other matters connected with the work of house surgeons and surgical dressers / [Walter Pye].

  • Walter Pye
Date:
1891
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Credit: Pye's surgical handicraft : a manual of surgical manipulations, minor surgery and other matters connected with the work of house surgeons and surgical dressers / [Walter Pye]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    2—Of Iodoform. l\ grs. iodoform, 15 grs. oil of theobroma.. 3.—Of Opium. 10 to 12 grs. of the compound soap pill (P.B.). HYPODERMIC INJECTIONS. 1.—Of Acetate of Morphia. The P.B. solution for injection contains 1 gr. in 10 TTl. (altered to this strength in the last edition), but provided that the solution be kept perfectly neutral, a solution of 1 gr. in 6 Til. will often be found more convenient, especially if large doses are required. It may be thus prepared : To 352 grs. of hydrochlorate of morphia dissolved in 8 oz. distilled water, with heat, add 4|- drms. liq. ammonias, or sufficient quantity to produce slight alkalinity. When cool, wasli the precipitated morphia by decantation, and on a filter, till free from chlorides. Dizain well and dissolve in IJ drms. distilled water, warmed, and 150 ni. acetic acid, or sufficient to produce' slight acidity. Make up to 4 oz. with distilled water, and filter. ^.—Of Morphia and Atropia. To the above add ini to tV gr. of atropia. 3.—Of Apomorphia. 2 p.c. hydrochlorate of apomorphia dissolved in water. Dose : 5 TTl. = IT, gr. — 4.—Of Carbolic Acid. The pure acid with 5 p.c. of water (see p. 280). 5.—Of Ergotine. 15 grs. ergotine, 15 m. glycerine, 1 oz. water, and 1 p.c. pure carbolic acid. Dose: 1 to 4 n\ = :| to 1 grain ergotine. 6.-0/ Ether. 10 to 20 m pure ether, or of ether Avith equal parts of pure alcohol or brandy. (Page 358). * Morphia injections keep better if 1 p.c. of pure carbolic acid be added, and if the sohition be made up with 25 p.c. of glycerine in place of so much water, clogging of the needle by evaporation will be greatly prevented.