The prescriber's analysis of the British Pharmacopoeia / by J. Birkbeck Nevins.

  • Nevins, J. Birkbeck (John Birkbeck), 1818-1903.
Date:
1864
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Credit: The prescriber's analysis of the British Pharmacopoeia / by J. Birkbeck Nevins. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    General Outline of Changes in the British Pharmacopoeia, classified. Several of the changes in the new Pharmaco- poeia require individual description, but many of them may be classified together in the following manner :— Every SulphuEETUM of the old Pharmacopoeia has been changed into SulphunATVM or Sulphu- rata. Thus, Antimonii Sulphuretum Aureum, Ph. E., has become Antimonium Sulphura^m, and Potassii Sulphure^m is now Potassa Sulphured. CMo~Rm at A is changed into Chlon at a. So Liquor Sodse Chlorinates is now Liquor Sodse Chlorates. CAZorineum has become CMohvm, and Aqua Chlorinei is now Liquor OhloW; and lodmiTJM has subsided into lodUM, so that Tinctura lo&inii Comp. has become Tinctura Iod^. The substances called TartamzATUM are now called TartaBATTJM.; so 'Antimonium Tartarizatum is Antimonium Tartaratum ; and the compound name Potassio-tartras has been discontinued in favour of Tartaratum ; so that Ferri Potassio- tartras is now Ferrnm Tartaratum. The vegetable alkaloids are all made to end in ia, whilst neutral vegetable principles are made to