The pharmacopoeia of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

  • Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
Date:
1841
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    galls, rendered blue by iodine, and not alter- ed by sesquioxide of iron. Calx. lAme, It is slaked by v/ater ; muriatic acid then dissolves it entirely, without any etferves- cence; and the solution does not precipitate with ammonia in excess. Calx chlorinata. Hypochlorite of lime. Chloride of lime. Pale grayish-white : dry ; 50 grains are nearly all soluble in two fluidounces of water, forming a solution of the density 1027, and of which 100 measures treated with an ex- cess of oxalic acid give off much chlorine, and if then boiled and allowed to rest 24 hours yield a precipitate which occupies nineteen measures of the liquid. Cambogia [siamensis]. Gum-resin from an unascertained plant inhabiting Siam, proba- bly a species of Hebradendron ( Graham^ ut infraJ ; Siam Gamboge, Fracture somewhat conchoidal, smooth, and glistening : a decoction of its powder cool- ed is not rendered green by tincture of io- dine, but merely somewhat tawny. Cambogia [zevlanica,] Gummy-resinous exudation of Hebradendron cambogioides (Graham in Comp, to JBot, Mag, ii.); Ceylon Gamboge, Camphora. Camphor of Camphora offici- narum (Nees von Esenbeck^ Laurinece.,) Camphor* b