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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    _§ Pnlvis Elaterii Compositus. Compound Powder of Elaterium. Take of Elaterium ...... 10 grains. Sugar of Milk 90 grains. Rub them together in a mortar until they are reduced to fine powder and intimately mixed. Dose.— \ grain to 5 grains.] The elaterium is here diluted with sugar of milk to facilitate its safe administration. \ of each . 2 ounces. [§ Pulvis Glyeyrrhizae Compositus. Compound Poivder of Liquorice. Take of Senna, in fine powder Liquorice Root, in fine powder Refined Sugar, in powder . . . .6 ounces. Mix them thoroughly, pass the powder through a fine sieve, and finally rub it lightly in a mortar. Dose.—30 to 60 grains. This is a mild purgative powder, resembling in its effects the con- fection of senna. A powder containing the above ingredients, wdth the addition of washed sulphur and powdered fennel seed, is ordered in the German Pharmacopoeia under the name of Pulvis Liquiritiai Compositus, and has for some time been occasionally prescribed in this country as well as abroad. The sulphur and fennel, being often considered objectionable, are omitted; but if the powder should be required as ordered in the German Pharmacopoeia, it may be pro- duced by adding one part of sulphur and one part of powdered fennel seed to ten parts of the above powder. [§ Sapo Animalis. Curd Soap. A soap made with soda and a purified animal fat consisting principally of stearin. Characters and Tests.—White or with a very light greyish tint; dry ; nearly inodorous; horny and pulverisable when kept in dry warm air. Easily moulded when heated. Soluble in rectified spirit. Soluble also in hot water, the solution being neutral or only slightly alkaline to test-paper. It does not impart a greasy stain to paper. This soap may with advantage be substituted for the hard soap made with olive oil in preparing the Linimentum Potassii Iodidi cum Sapone.~\ Curd soap differs from Oastille soap, the only hard soap ordered in the Pharmacopoeia, in its containing principally a solid in place of a liquid fatty acid. It may with advantage be substituted for