Dr. Pereira's Elements of materia medica and therapeutics : abridged and adapted for the use of medicine and pharmaceutical practitioners and students and comprising all of the medicines of the British Pharmacopœia, with such others as are frequently ordered in prescriptions or required by the physician / edited by Robert Bently and Theophilus Redwood.

  • Jonathan Pereira
Date:
1872
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Credit: Dr. Pereira's Elements of materia medica and therapeutics : abridged and adapted for the use of medicine and pharmaceutical practitioners and students and comprising all of the medicines of the British Pharmacopœia, with such others as are frequently ordered in prescriptions or required by the physician / edited by Robert Bently and Theophilus Redwood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [§ Charta Epispastica. Blistering Paper. Take of White Wax Spermaceti Olive Gil - Resin Canada Balsam Cantharides, in powder Distilled Water . *h ounces. 1^ ounce. 2 fluid ounces. | ounce. J ounce. 1 ounce. 6 fluid ounces. Digest all the ingredients, excepting the Canada balsam, in a Vvater-bath for two hours, stirring them constantly, then strain, and separate the plaster from the watery liquid. Mix the Canada balsam with the plaster melted in a shallow vessel, and pass strips of paper over the surface of the hot liquid, so that one surface of the paper shall receive a thin coating of plaster. It may be convenient to employ paper ruled so as to indicate divisions, each of which is one square inch.] This is a mild, yet generally efficient, blistering application. [§ Emplastrum Calefaciens. Take of Cantharides, in coarse powder' Expressed Oil of Nutmeg Yellow Wax . Resin Soap Plaster . Resin Plaster Boiling Water Warm Plaster. of each 4 ounces. . 3J pounds. . 2 pounds. . 1 pint. Infuse the cantharides in the boiling water for six hours ; squeeze strongly through calico, and evaporate the expressed liquid by a water-bath till reduced to one-third. Then add the other ingre- dients, and melt in a water-bath, stirring well until the whole is thoroughly mixed.] Stimulant, rubefacient, and, in some cases, vesicant. Used in catarrh, local pains, &c. [§ Emplastrum Cantharidis. Cantharides Plaster. Take of Cantharides, in powder . . . .12 ounces. Yellow W ax) , Prepared Suet / °f Gach ' ' ' jounces. Prepared Lard . . . . .6 ounces. R-esin ....... 3 ounces.