A handbook of local therapeutics / edited by Harrison Allen.

Date:
1893
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Credit: A handbook of local therapeutics / edited by Harrison Allen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    BALSAMUM TOLUTANUM—BELLADONNA. hol, 240 parts. Mix, and macerate for several days, shaking often, then filter. Other preparations are known under the same name as above, iwo formulae are herewith presented :— R. Oil rue, nix; oil cedrat, cinnamon, cloves, lavender, mace, mar- joram, of each rrixx ; balsam Peru, gss ; alcohol, Oss. B. Oil cinn., cloves, lavender, lemon, neroli, nutmeg, thyme, each rrixx; bals. Peru, 3j ; alcohol, Oss. BALSAMUM TOLUTANUM. Balsam of Tolu. A balsam obtained from Myroxylon toluifera. A yellowish or brownish-yellow, semi-fluid or nearly solid mass, transparent in thin layers, brittle when cold, having an agreeable, balsamic odor, and a mild, aromatic taste. It is entirely soluble in alco- hol; almost insoluble in water and in benzin. (U. S. P.) It is one of the constitu- ents of the Compound Tincture of Benzoin. (Turlington's Balsam, Friar's Balsam, Wade's Balsam.) A Tincture of Tolu is official; it contains ten per cent, of the balsam. The balsam of tolu is a protectant antiseptic and alleviates cough. Diseases of the Throat.—M. Mackenzie uses a solution of one to five as a varnish on Diphtheritic Deposits \ the membrane should be first dried with blotting paper before the application is made; of the balsam eighty grains, ether one ounce, as a pigment, to be applied with a brush to the diphtheritic deposits on the tonsils and pharynx. Vapor inhala- tions of tolu are recommended for the treatment of Chronic Pharyn- gitis. A lozenge of the balsam is prepared in the proportion of one-fifth of a grain. In the form of a tincture tolu is sometimes added to sprays. Owing to its tenacious character a small proportion suffices. BELLADONNA. Belladonna. In both the U. S. P. and Br. P. the leaves as well as the root of Atropa belladontia are official. In the U. S. P. the alcoholic extract and the tincture are made from the leaves the plaster and the fluid extract from the root. In the Br. P. the extract, the succus, and the tincture are made from the leaves, and the alcoholic fluid extract, the liniment, and atropine are made from the root. The preparations of belladonna used externally in this country are the Alcoholic Extract (of uncertain strength). Tincture of Belladonna (fif- teen parts of belladonna leaf in one hundred parts of tincture), Atropine, the Plaster (one hundred parts of belladonna in one hundred parts of the plaster); the Ointment, made by incorporating ten parts of the alcoholic extract of belladonna, softened with six parts of diluted alcohol in eighty-four parts of benzoinated lard; and, rarely, the Fluid Extract (one gramme of belladonna root in one cubic centimetre of fluid extract), and the Liq. Atropines Sulphatis. Atropine is characterized by '* colorless or white, acicular crystals, permanent in the air, odorless, having a bitter, acrid taste, and an alkaline reaction. (U. S. P.) It forms