A laboratory course of pharmacy and materia medica : including the principles and practice of dispensing adapted to the study of the British Pharmacopoeia and the requirements of the private student / by William Elborne.

  • Elborne, William.
Date:
1890
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Credit: A laboratory course of pharmacy and materia medica : including the principles and practice of dispensing adapted to the study of the British Pharmacopoeia and the requirements of the private student / by William Elborne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Obseruations.—Fiat pulvis, ex aqua si opus sit sumendus. (Mitte sex.) Let a powder be made.— One to be taken in water as required. (Send six powders.) In mixing powders, reduce any lumpy or crystalline ingredient (or ingredients) to an impalpable powder by light trituration in a dry mortar, add the other ingredients (known to be im- palpable powders), and mix by light tritura- tion. Cachets.—Nauseous powders are some- times enclosed between two circular pieces of wafer-paper (termed cachets )—the Fig. 74.—A mortar for whole to be dipped in water immediately trituration purposes. ^^^^^ swallowing. Empty gelatine capsules for similar purposes are also readily obtainable. {by ^4j^cL^ci,n^. C'^^n-e::^. <^^. viij. P^<l<i-c-£-, iJt c6c^. ^uJLo^. iv. Lat.—Misce et divide in pulveres sex, capiat unum omni alterna nocte hora somni. Eng.—Mix and divide into four powders, One to be taken every other night at bed-time. Pilulse. Medicines prepared in a pilular form are very portable, as they can be supplied to the patient in the smallest possible bulk in equally apportioned doses. The pill is a convenient mode of administering nauseous medicines— those that are insoluble in water and not easily suspended in it,and those drugs whose gradual action is required. A pill should be perfectly globular and lirm, so as not to lose its shape, yet should not be too hard so as to be insoluble, or even slow in dissolving, unless the prescriber wishes it, as is sometimes the case; e.g., 5 grains of dried sulphate of iron with one minim of syrup form a not very large but useful pill, which, by dissolving slowly, does not derange the stomach, whereas an equivalent dose of the salt in solution ^ Pulvis Yermifugus [Charing Cross).