The American new dispensatory : Containing general principles of pharmaceutic chemistry; chemical analysis of the articles of materia medica; pharmaceutic operations; materia medica, including several new and valuable articles, the production of the United States; preparations and compositions. With an appendix, containing an account of mineral waters; medical prescriptions; the nature and medical uses of the gases; medical electricity; galvanism; an abridgment of Dr. Currie's reports on the use of water; the cultivation of the poppy plant, and the method of preparing opium ... The whole compiled from the most approved authors, both European and American.

  • Thacher, James, 1754-1844.
Date:
1817
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Credit: The American new dispensatory : Containing general principles of pharmaceutic chemistry; chemical analysis of the articles of materia medica; pharmaceutic operations; materia medica, including several new and valuable articles, the production of the United States; preparations and compositions. With an appendix, containing an account of mineral waters; medical prescriptions; the nature and medical uses of the gases; medical electricity; galvanism; an abridgment of Dr. Currie's reports on the use of water; the cultivation of the poppy plant, and the method of preparing opium ... The whole compiled from the most approved authors, both European and American. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    36G is from live to fifteen grains. The addition of an aromatic is generally necessary, to prevent it from exciting nausea, when it is given in the solid form. The best form of ad- ministering it, however, is that of the alum whey, prepar- ed by adding two drachms of powdered alum to a pint of hot milk ; the dose of this is three or four ounces. In uterine haemorrhage, and in diabetes, this whey taken to the quantity of three or four ounces, three times a day, has been attended with very favourable effects. It is also used externally, in astringent and repellent lotions and collyria. But burnt allum taken internally, has been highly extolled in cases of colic. In such in- stances, when taken to the extent of a scruple for a dose, it has been said gently to move the belly, and give very great relief from the severe pain. Burnt allum is applied externally, as a gentle escharotic, to fungous ulcers. Sulphas Baryta. Sulphate of Barytes. Ponderous Spar. This salt has been omitted in the list of the Materia Medica of the Edinburgh college ; but they afterwards employ it for the preparation of the muriate of barytes. It is found in great abundance in many countries, either in a loose earthy form, or compact, or foliated, or striated, or acicular. The foliated is in general the purest. Heated to red- ness with charcoal, it is converted into a sulphuret, and it may be decomposed either by boiling, or in a crucible, with the carbonates of potass and of soda. It contains about eighty-four of barytes, and sixteen of sulphuric acid and water. Sulphas Cupri. Sulphate of Copper. Blue Vitriol. This article is made by stratifying plates of copper with the sulphur; and, on slow combustion, the sulphu- ric acid corrodes the copper: the metal is then boiled in water, till the saline particles be dissolved ; when, after repeated solution, and subsequent evaporation, the whole is reduced to the crystalline point. The sulphate of copper has a strong, styptic, metallic taste, and is chiefly used externally as an escharotic for destroying warts, callous edges, and fungous excrescen- ces, as a stimulant application to ill conditioned ulccis- and as a styptic to bleeding surfaces. Taken internallv.