Volume 1

A practical synopsis of the materia alimentaria and materia medica / by the author of the Thesaurus medicaminum.

  • Pearson, Richard, 1765-1836.
Date:
1797-1802
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Credit: A practical synopsis of the materia alimentaria and materia medica / by the author of the Thesaurus medicaminum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tity of nitre. When duly prepared it is colour- lefs, and on expofure to the air exhales a white vapour j being thus diftinguifhed from what is properly called the nitrons acid; which is of a yellowifli-red colour and emits red fumes. Thefe ftriking differences between the acid in thefe two ftates, are owing to the greater and lefs proportion of oxygen combined with its azotic bafis j and which (viz. the oxygen) is fo much greater in the nitric than in the nitrous acid. The nitric acid, in dofes of thirty or forty drops, diluted with water, has an evident tonic effefr, and promifes to be of ufe in various cafes of debility, whether with or without fever; fuch as typhus [fee Antifeptics] dropfy, jaundice, &c. But within the laft four or five years it has been brought forward as a remedy againfb the venereal difeafe ; and in that point of view has given rife to much controverfy among medical practitioners. In this difeafe it has been given in a much larger quantity than that above-ftated, as we fhall after- wards mention. ' Mr. Scott, a Surgeon in the Eaft-India fervice, firft announced the antifyphilitic powers of this acid in the Bombay Courier and afterwards fent an account of his fuccefsful employment of it to Dr. Btsddoes j at whofe recommendation trials were K 3 foon