Five hundred practical trade receipts (general, remedial, veterinary) for Chemists and Druggists, including approximate formulae of several popular proprietary articles.

Date:
1883
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Credit: Five hundred practical trade receipts (general, remedial, veterinary) for Chemists and Druggists, including approximate formulae of several popular proprietary articles. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    Emerald Green.—This may also be obtained by dissolving one ounce of nickel in equal parts of nitric acid and water, tlien diluting with sufficient water to make one gallon. Fluorescent Glass-Green.—Fluorescin, 1 gr.; ammonia, 1 dr.; water, 1 gallon. Purple.—Sufficient chloride or nitrate of cobalt, dissolved in water, to give proper depth of tint. Dissolve precipitate by adding solution of carbonate of ammonia in excess. Add gradually solution of ammonio-sulphate of copper till the desired tint is obtained. Ammonio-sulphate of copper is made by adding to a solution of sulphate of copper enough ammonia to re-dicisolve precipitate. 2.—Salicylic acid, 1 gr.; alcohol, 2 drs. ; tincture of muriate of iron, 30 drops ; water, 2 gallons. Brilliant PM?*^Ze.—Sulphate of copper, 2 drs.; water, 2 ozs. ; French gelatin, 1 dr. ; boiling water, 2 ozs.; solution of potassa, 2 pints. Dissolve the copper salt in the water, and the gelatin in the boiling water. Mix the two solutions and the liquor of potassa. Shake the mixture a few times during ten hours, after which decant and dilute with a sufficiency of water. Red.—Carbonate of cobalt, 1 dr.; muriatic acid, sufficient; carbonate of ammonia, sufficient; water 12 to 16 pints. Dissolve the carbonate of cobalt in the acid, and add to the solution enough carbonate of ammonia to dissolve the precipitate formed at first. Orange Red.—Dissolve bichromate of potassium in water and add for every pound of the salt four ounces of sulphuric acid, Violet.—Cudbear, 2 ozs.; ammonia, 8 ozs. ; water, 2 galls. Yellow.—Bichromate of potassa, 6 ozs,; carbonate of soda, 4 ozs.; water 12 pints. Cordials, Etc. Blachherry Cordial.—Crushed blackberries,' 1 gall.; sugar, 2 lb. ; brandy, 1 gall. Macerate the berries in the brandy for five or six days ; express the liquor ; add the sugar, and after two weeks decant and filter. Cherry Cordial—Good French brandy, 1 qt. ; juice of cherries, 1 qt.; best white sugar, finely powdered, 2 lb. Add the sugar to the juice and stir until it is thoroughly dissolved ; add the brandy, and filter through blotting-paper. Curaqao Cordial.—I. Oil of orarfge, very fresh, 1 dr.; oil of cinnamon, 1 drop ; oil of juniper berries, 2 drops ; oil of coriander seed, 2 drops ; deodorised alcohol, 3 pints ; simple syrup, 2 pints ; water, sufficient to com- plete 1 gall. Mix the alcohol with an equal volume of water, and add the mixture slowly to the essential oils previously rubbed in a mortar with carbonate of magnesia or phosphate of lime. Transfer the whole to a bottle, and set it aside with occasional agitation, for two or three days. Then add the simple syrup, the remainder of the water, and filter through paper. This gives the white cordial; for the red, infuse in the alcoholic menstruum baout two drachms of cudbear.