The pharmacopoeia of the Royal College of Physicians of London, for 1851 / translated by a physician.

  • Royal College of Physicians of London.
Date:
1851
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Credit: The pharmacopoeia of the Royal College of Physicians of London, for 1851 / translated by a physician. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Castoreum. Castor Fiber. Castor. The follicles of the prepuce filled with a peculiar secretion. Catechu. Acacia Catechu. Extract from the wood. Firm, brittle, blackish in colour, it tastes bitter and is strongly astringent. or TJncaria Gambir. Extractfromthe leaf. Prepared in the form of a cube, porous, red- dish in colour, lias a bitter taste, is strongly astringent, almost entirely dissolved by boiling water. This solution, when it has cooled, does not give a blue colour with iodide of potassium and dilute nitric acid added together. If ether be added to 100 grains of either variety, it ought so to be dissolved that 40 grains of the dried ethereal extract should be soluble in cold water. Cera. Apis mellifica. Wax. The prepared comb. Cera alba. The same bleached. White Wax. Cerevisice fermentum. Yeast of Beer. Cetaceum. JPJiyseier macrocepha- Spermaceti. lus. A concretion pre- pared from the oily matter of the head. Cetraria. Cetraria Islandica, Liverwort. Achak.