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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    most easily tinged in robust subjects, and more in adults than in children. The urine, on the other hand, is more coloured in these cases. The skin in the best dyed cases clears in two or three weeks after the remedy has been dis- continued. Dose—From half a grain to two grains, gradually in- creased. FEERI CARBONAS—CAEBONATE OF IRON. The chemical properties of carbonate of iron are so well understood, and its therapeutic value so clearly established, that it is only introduced here in order that a few prepara- tions which are very great improvements upon the usual forms—the saccharated carbonate, thejnlulaferri composita, and the mistura Jerri composita—in which it is usually ad- ministered in this country, may be noticed. Syrupus Ferri Carlonatis—Syrup of Carbonate of Iron. Carbonate of iron readily dissolves in simple syrup, and as the sugar exercises a completely preservative influence upon the salt, this is one of the best forms in which it can be exhibited :— Protosulphate of iron . . 2 ounces. Carbonate of soda in crystals . 2^ „ Water , . . . . 2 pints. Sugar 4 ounces. Dissolve the sulphate of iron and half the sugar in one pint, and the carbonate of soda and the remainder of the sugar in the other pint of water, mix the solutions, allow