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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    [§ Unguentum Simplex. Simple Ointment Take of White Wax 2 ounces. Prepared Lard 3 ounces. Almond Oil 3 fluid ounces. Melt the wax and lard in the oil on a water-bath; then remove the mixture, and stir constantly while it cools.] A mild and cooling dressing. Used also as a basis for more active preparations, in a considerable number of the official oint- ments. Pharmaceutical Uses.— Simple ointment is an ingredient in eight of the official ointments. Sub-kingdom IL— VERTEBRATA.— VERTEBRATE ANIMALS. Class: PISCES. Fishes. ACIPENSER, Linn. Generic Character.—Body elongated, angular, defended by indu- rated plates and spines, arranged in longitudinal rows. Snout pointed, conical. Mouth placed on the under surface of the head, tabular, and without teeth. Species.—At least eight species are known, but they are not well determined. Four species appear to. yield the commercial varieties of isinglass: these are, Acipenser Huso, Linn., the Beluga ; A. Giilden- stadtii, Brandt and Ratzeburg, the Osseter; A. Buthenus, Linn., the Sterlet; and A. Stellatus, Pallas, the Sewruga. Habitat.—The above species mostly inhabit the Black and Caspian Seas, and their tributary rivers. [§ Isinglass. (Appendix L). The swimming bladder or sound of various species of Acipenser, Linn., prepared and cut into fine shreds.] Preparation.—The organ from which isinglass is usually procured is the air-bag or swimming bladder, or, as it is sometimes termed, the sound. It is a membranous sac filled with air, and placed under the spine, in the middle of the back, and above the centre of gravity. The mode of preparing the swimming bladder for sale as isinglass varies in different countries. Sometimes the bag is dried unopened,