Pharmacopoeia chirurgica, or, A manual of chirurgical pharmacy : comprising all the valuable formulae of the new London pharmacopoeia, and of the several pharmacopoeiae appertaining to this branch of science, with notes and observations, as well on the method of compounding, as likewise on the properties and use of each / by J. Wilson, surgeon, Huntingdon ... ; with a translation of the whole of the formulae, and additional notes and illustrations ; by William Meade, M.D. member of the American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia, honorary member of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh, &c. &c. &c.

  • Wilson, James, 1765-1821.
Date:
1818
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Credit: Pharmacopoeia chirurgica, or, A manual of chirurgical pharmacy : comprising all the valuable formulae of the new London pharmacopoeia, and of the several pharmacopoeiae appertaining to this branch of science, with notes and observations, as well on the method of compounding, as likewise on the properties and use of each / by J. Wilson, surgeon, Huntingdon ... ; with a translation of the whole of the formulae, and additional notes and illustrations ; by William Meade, M.D. member of the American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia, honorary member of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh, &c. &c. &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ACIDUM NITRICUM. (L.) NITRIC ACID. The acid of nitre is obtained in various degrees of oxygenation. When the proportion of oxygen to that of azot is less than three of the former to one of the latter, it has hitherto been termed nitrous acid; and in this state it freely emits fumes of a red colour when exposed to the atmosphere. If the oxygen be to the azot as that of four to one, the acid in this state is colourless, or nearly so, emits no vapour, and takes the appellation of nitric acid. The difference then, as will be already perceived, in the nitrous and nitric acids, consists in a greater or less quantity of oxygen, or rather in a variable proportion of nitric oxyd, with which the acid is combined. By expo- sing nitrous acid in a retort to a gentle heat, the nitric oxyd is vaporized, and pure colourless nitric acid remains in the retort; this may again be rendered nitrous acid, by impregnating it with the red nitrous fumes, which are nothing more than nitric oxyd combined with a portion of acid. Nitric acid is a very powerful styptic and escharo- tic, and stains the skin of a yellow colour wherever it comes into contact with it. It is a powerful caus- tic in the hands of the surgeon, and forms probably one of the readiest and safest means of preventing the evil consequences arising from the bite of rabid animals, and of destroying the poison; as it not only