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

Date:
1864
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Credit: Manual of materia medica and therapeutics : embracing medicines of the British pharmacopoeia / by Alexander Milne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    Suppositoria.—Tannic acid gr. xxiv. ; glycerine min. xx. ; prepared lard and white wax a sufficiency. Trochisci.—Tannin, tolti, sugar, gum, water. Each lozenge contains gr. £ tannic acid. Incompatibles.—Alkalies and their carbonates; the mineral acids, acetate of lead, nitrate of silver, lime water, tartar emetic, the persalts of iron. Acidum Tartaricum. Tartaric Acid. An acid, 2 HO, C8 H4, 010, obtained from the acid tartrate of potash. Charact.—In colourless oblique rhombic prisms, strong acid taste, readily soluble in water. Actions and uses.—Refrigerant; used chiefly for making effervescing powders. Dose, gr. x. to xxx. in a good deal of water. For effervescing draughts the bicarbonate of soda is given a little in excess of the acid; and for seidlitz powders, from gr. xxx. to gr. cxx. of sodae et potassae tartras, with a little sugar and essence of lemon, are added. Aconiti Radix. Aconite Root. Aconitum napellus Linn. The root, dried ; imported from Germany, or cultivated in Britain, and collected in the winter or early spring, before the leaves have appeared. N. F. Ranunculacese. Charact.—From one to three inches long, not thicker than the finger at the crown, tapering, wrinkled, blackish-brown, internally whitish. A minute portion cautiously chewed, causes prolonged tingling and numbness. Analysis. — An alkaloid named aconitia, combined with aconitic acid, an acrid volatile principle, albumen, different salts, &c. Actions and uses.—Sedative, and a powerful poison. A minute portion causes a tingling sensation and numbness, while larger quantities induce depression of the vital powers, the effects being confusion, loss of sight, and of common sensa- tion, paralysis of the voluntary muscles, death taking place