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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    coagulation, by which it entangles in its meshes the impurities with which it either rises to the surface or precipitates. When the liquid to be clarified does not spontaneously coagulate the albumen, it is necessary to apply heat. Bookbinders also use the glaire as a varnish. [§ Solution of Albumen (Appendix II.). Take of The White of one Egg. Distilled Water. . . . .4 fluid ounces. Mix by trituration in a mortar, and filter through clean tow first moistened with distilled water. This solution must be recently prepared.] [§ Ovi Vitelltis. Yolk of Egg. The yolk of the egg of Gallus Banckiva, var. domesticus, Tem- minck.~\ Composition.—The yolk consists, according to Dr. Prout, of yellow oil with cry stall is able fat 2875, albumen containing phosphorus 17'47, and water 58*8. The yellow {oleum ovi) rray be obtained by boiling the yolk hard, and digesting in ether or alcohol, which dissolves the oil. By distilling off the alcohol from the filtered tincture, the oil is left behind. Physiological Effects and Uses.—Highly nutritive like the white of egg, and also demulcent and emollient. It also exerts antidotal powers in poisoning by corrosive sublimate, sulphate of copper, and bichloride of tin, and may therefore be freely used like the white of egg. The yolk is also used for preparing emulsions. Pharmaceutical Use.—It is a constituent of mistura spiritus vini gallici. Class : MAMMALIA, Linn. Mammals. CETACEA, Linn. The Cetacean Order. PHYSETEE MACROCEPHALUS, Linn. The Sperm Whale. Zoological Character.—Length 45-60 feet. Shin smooth, without hair ; of back and sides blackish or slate-blue, a little spotted with white ; of belly whitish. A longitudinal eminence on the back over the anus. Head very large; superior portion consisting of large cartilaginous cavities filled with oily matter. Teeth of lower jaw 20-23 on each side, recurved and pointed, entering, when the mouth