Manual of the medicinal preparations of iron : including their presentation, chemistry, physiological action, and therapeutic use / by Harry Napier Draper.

  • Draper, Harry Napier.
Date:
1864
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Credit: Manual of the medicinal preparations of iron : including their presentation, chemistry, physiological action, and therapeutic use / by Harry Napier Draper. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    • Test It dissolves almost entirely in water, leaving but a very small quantity of red sediment. Preparations Pilula, Syrupus. [This formula might almost have been omitted from the Pharmacopeia, as the salt is now rarely used in a solid form, and although stated to enter into the preparation of the pill and syrup, on reference to the processes for these it will be seen that in both cases the iodide is extempo- raneously prepared.] FERRI OXrOUM MAGNETICUM—MAGXETIC OXIDE OF IRON. Take of Sulphate of iron, six ounces. Sulphuric acid, three fluid drachms. Nitric acid, two fluid drachms. Solution of soda, fifty-eight fluid ounces, or a sufficiency. Distilled water, a sufficiency. Add the sulphuric acid to five fluid ounces of the water, and with the aid of heat dissolve in the mixture four ounces of the sulphate of iron. Mix the nitric acid with two fluid ounces of the water, and having added the dilute acid to the solution of sulphate of iron, concentrate by boiling, until on the sudden disengagement of ruddy vapours the Uquid passes from a dark to a red colour. To the solution thus obtained add the two remainins; ounces of sulphate of iron first dissolved in half a pint of distilled water. Mix well, add to the liquid the solution of soda, and having boiled for five minutes in an iron vessel, collect the precipitate on a calico filter, and wash it