Manual of materia medica and therapeutics : embracing medicines of the British pharmacopoeia / by Alexander Milne.

Date:
1864
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    Acidum Sulphuricum. Sulphuric Acid. Monohydrated sulphuric acid, HO, SO3. Charact. —A colourless fluid of oily appearance, intensely acid and corrosive, evolving much heat on the addition of water. Specific gravity 1 846. Preparation.—See Brit. Pharm. Actions and uses.—A powerful corrosive, rapidly destroying animal tissue. Antidote, chalk and magnesia. It is not much used in practice as a counterimtant. It has been used as a caustic to the conjunctiva for curing ectropium or eversion of the lid, and to the skin of the eye-lid, for entropium or in- version.—In France, a caustic paste for malignant and cancer- ous ulcerations, is made by mixing 2 parts of acid with one of saffron. In this country, sawdust—a much cheaper article, has been substituted for the saffron. Acidum Aromaticum,—Take of sulphuric acid f giij ; recti- fied spt. Oij ; cinnamon in coarse powder §ij ; ginger in coarse powder 51^. Mix the acid gradually with f J xxxv. of the spt., then add the cinnamon and the ginger, and digest for 7 days, agitating frequently; filter and add enough spt. to make up to Oij. Acidum Dilutum.—Take of sulphuric acid f giij ; dist. water f §xxxv. Mix gradually. Actions and uses.—Tonic, refrigerant, astringent, and diuretic. Useful as a tonic and refrigerant in continued fevers ; as an astringent in haemoptysis, epistaxis, and bleed- ings from the uterus, stomach, and intestines, and in diarrhoea. Excellent in the nocturnal sweating of phthisis, or the per- spirations of hectic. It is by no means a trustworthy diuretic ; yet, singularly, it will succeed in some few cases where more powerful diuretics fail. Dose.—Min. xx. to xl. in an ounce or so of simple syrup, or infusion of caliimba or gentian. Incompatibles.—Most metals and their oxides; alkalies and their carbonates ; acetate of lead, nitrates, organic sub- stances, essential oils ; tinctures and astringent infusions.