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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    Castille soap, not only in the preparation referred to in the official notice of it, but in some other Pharmacopoeia preparations in which it will probably be ordered in a future edition of the Pharmacopoeia. [§ Succus Belladonna. Juice of Belladonna. Take of Fresh Leaves and young Branches of *) _ Belladonna J 7 Pounds' Rectified Spirit . . . . .a sufficiency. Bruise the belladonna in a stone mortar, press out the juice, and to every three measures of juice add one of the spirit. Set aside for seven days and filter. Keep it in a cool place. Dose.—5 to 15 minims.] [§ Succus Hyoscyami. Juice of Hyoscyamus. Fresh Leaves and young Branches of Hyoscyamus ..... Rectified Spirit a sufficiency. Bruise the hyoscyamus in a stone mortar, press out the juice, and to every three measures of juice add one of the spirit. Set aside for seven days and filter. Keep it in a cool place. Dose.—f5ss to f3j.] The preserved vegetable juices were brought into use in this country about the year 1835 by Mr. Squire, and the long trial to which they have been subjected has fully established their reputa- tion as valuable medicines, possessing the peculiar properties of the vegetable substances from which they are prepared in a higher degree than any other preparations derived from the same sources. The process now given in the Pharmacopoeia for their preparation is precisely that originally recommended by Mr. Squire, in a paper read at a meeting of the Pharmaceutical Society in 1841. [§ Suppositoria Acidi Carbolici cum Sapone. Carholic Acid Suppositories. Take of Carbolic Acid . . . .12 grains. Curd Soap, in powder . . . 180 grains. Starch, in powder . . . .a sufficiency. Mix the carbolic acid with the soap, and add sufficient starch to form a paste of suitable consistence. Divide the mass into twelve equal parts, each of which is to be made into a conical or other convenient form for a suppository.] \ 7 pounds.