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

  • Jonathan Pereira
Date:
1874
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Credit: Dr. Pereira's Elements of materia medica and therapeutics : abridged and adapted for the use of medical and pharmaceutical practitioners and students and comprising all the medicines of the British Pharmacopœia, with such others as are frequently ordered in prescriptions or required by the physician / edited by Robert Bentley and Theophilus Redwood ; with an appendix. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tion ; strain, press, filter, and add sufficient rectified spirit to make one pint. Dose.—J to 1 fluid drachm.] The quantity used in this preparation is much too small. A fluid ounce of the tincture contains less than twenty-two grains of castor. Official Preparations Omitted. [§ Solution of Tartaric Acid. Take of Tartaric Acid, in crystals . . .1 ounce. Distilled Water . . . .8 fluid ounces. Rectified Spirit . . . .2 fluid ounces. Dissolve the tartaric acid in the water, add the rectified spirit, and preserve the solution in a stoppered bottle.] [§ Unguentum Hydrargyri Compositum. Compound Ointment of Mercury. Take of Ointment of Mercury . . . .6 ounces. Yellow Wax J , of each . . . .3 ounces. Olive Oil Camphor . . . . . . 1^ ounce. Melt the wax with a gentle heat and add the oil, then, when the mixture is nearly cold, add the camphor in powder, and the oint- ment of mercury, and mix the whole thoroughly together.] [§ Unguentum Plumbi Acetatis. Ointment of Acetate of Lead. Take of Acetate of Lead, in fine powder . . 12 grains. Benzoated Lard . . . . .1 ounce. Mix thoroughly.]