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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    membrane (catarrh) ; but its internal administration is now nearly obsolete. Its principal use is in the preparation of ointments. Administration.—When employed internally, it is generally exhi- bited in the form of an emulsion {spermaceti mixture) made with the yolk of egg ; or with mucilage. Pharmaceutical Use.—It is an ingredient in blistering paper. [§ Unguentum Cetacei. Ointment of Spermaceti. Take of Spermaceti . . . .5 ounces. White Wax 2 ounces. 1 pint, or a sufficiency. Melt together with a gentle heat, remove the mixture, and stir constantly while it cools.] Employed as a mild and simple dressing for blisters and excoriated surfaces. EUMINANTIA, Ouvier. The Ruminant Order. MOSCHUS MOSCHIFEEUS, Linn. The Musk Animal. Zoological Character.—An elegant animal about the size of the-roe- buck or. goat, with slender body, no horns, long and pointed ears, scarcely any tail, grey-brown fur, and very coarse hair (fig. 124). The male has two long canines in the upper jaw, and a pouch in front of the preputial orifice (fig. 125, li) filled with an unctuous musky secretion. The female has two inguinal mammce. Anatomy of the Musk Sac.—The sac is peculiar to the male animal. If he be supposed to be laid on his back, and the belly examined (fig. 125) we observe behind the navel, and immediately in front of the preputial orifice (d), a small aperture (h) leading into the mush canal, which terminates in the cavity of the music sac. The preputial orifice (d) is somewhat more pro- minent, and has a number of longish hairs projecting from it, in the form of a brush or hair-pencil; whereas the external musk aperture is placed in a depression, and is smooth. The mush sac is of an oval form, rather broader at the anterior than at the posterior part. It is flat and smooth above, where it is in contact with the abdominal muscles, but convex below (sup- Almond Oil ■