Thomson's Conspectus of the British pharmacopoeias.

  • Anthony Todd Thomson
Date:
1852
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    Use. In chest affections, scrofula, scirrhus, and cancer, particularly lor allaying the pain of uterine cancer, without producing costiveness, as opium does ; a useful addition to mercurial salts in cutaneous com- plaints. Dose. Gr. iij. gradually increased to 3j. twice or thrice a day.* 1'est. Triturate with Liquor Potassae: if good, a strong odour of Conia is evolved. Off Prep. PH. Conii Comp. L. Ung. Conii, L. EXTRACTUM DIGITALIS. E. Extract of Foxglove. (Inspissated juice of the leaves.) Comp. Digitalin, resin, fatty matter, chlorophylle, salts of potassa, and lime. Oper. Sedative, diuretic. Use. In dropsies after the tension is diminished by blood-letting and other means j it is inferior to the tincture. Dose. Gr. ss. to gr. j. Incomp. Diacetate of lead, infusions and decoctions of astringent vege- table products ; carbonates of alkalies. EXTRACTUM ELATERII.f L. Elaterium, E. Extract of Ela- terium. (The fecula of the expressed juice.) Comp. Elaterin 44+green resin 17+fecula 6+saline inert matter 6+ lignin 27=100 parts. Oper. Violently cathartic, hydragogue, sometimes emetic. Use. In ascites, when other remedies have failed, renal anasarca, and in very obstinate costiveness. Dose. Gr. l-6th made into a pill, with extract of gentian, or with calo- mel gr. j., or in powder with bitartrate of potash, every sixth hour till it operate; and then repeated every sixth or eighth hour till a cure be effected. EXTRACTUM GENTIANJE. L. E. D. Extract of Gentian. (Ma- cerate three pounds of sliced gentian in six pints of distilled water; pour off the liquor and strain. To the residue add the remaining two pints; macerate for six hours, and having lightly expressed the liquor, strain. Mix the liquors, and evaporate. Comp. Gentianin? mucilage, sugar. Prop. Inodorous, intensely bitter, black, shining, tenacious. Oper. Tonic, stomachic; in large doses aperient. Use. In dyspepsia, jaundice, &c, but it is chiefly used as a medium for giving the metallic oxides in the form of pills: an excellent adjunct to ipecacuanha in the latter stage of dysentery. Dose. Gr. x. to 3ss. twice or thrice a day. Off. Prep. Pilules Aloes Comp. L. EXTRACTUM GLYCYRRHIZiE. L. E. D. Extract of Liquorice. (Macerate for twrenty-four hours ibijss. of recently bruised iiquorice- root in two gallons of boiling water, boil to one gallon, and strain the hot liquor; then evaporate.) Prop. Almost inodorous ; taste sweet, mucilaginous ; brittle. Oper, Demulcent. Use. In the tickling cough of catarrh it is perhaps the most useful of the demulcents, as it hangs about and sheaths the fauces. Dose. 3j. to 3ij. ad libitum. Off. Prep. Pilules Opiates, E. Pilules Scillitices, E. Trochisci Gly- cyrrhi%es Glabres, E. Trochisci Glycyrrhizes cum Opto, E. EXTRACTUM HiEMATOXYLI. L. E. Extract of Logwood. (The evaporated decoction.) * Impotentiam virilem, says Bergius, sub usu Conii curatam obser- vavi, in viro quodam plusquam quadragenario, qui omnem erectionem penis perdiderat, postinde tamen plures liberos procreavit. — Mat. Med., vol. i. p. 195. t This substance is improperly termed an extract. f 2