Practical prescribing and dispensing for medical students / by William Kirkby.

Date:
1906
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Credit: Practical prescribing and dispensing for medical students / by William Kirkby. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Magnesii Sulphas, for repeated administration (gr. XXX—gr. cxx (2 to 8 grm.); for a single dose, 3ij—3iv(7 to 14 grm.) Solubility—Water, i in i; insoluble in Alcohol. Generally prescribed in mixtures, which should not contain large quantities of tinctures lest the sulphate should be thrown out of solution. Also used in the form of an effervescing powder (Magnesii Sulphas Effervescens—for repeated doses, 3j—3iv; for a single dose, 3SS— Incompatibles. Alkalis and their Carbonates, Tartarated Soda, Lime Water, Lead Acetate and Soluble Phosphates. Malti, Extractum, B.P.C., 3j—3iv (4 to 14 grm.) Given alone or in combination with Cod-Liver Oil (Extractum Malti cum Oleo Morrhuge, 3j—3iv). Menthol, gr. ss—gr. ij (3 to 12 cgm.) Solubility— Alcohol, 5 in i; Chloroform, 4 in i. For external use it is used in cones, in solution in chloroform or alcohol, in a plaster (Emplastrum Menthol) and in ointments. An alcoholic solution may be administered internally by dropping it upon sugar. It is used as a spray, inhalation and insufflation. Incompatibles. Camphor, Chloral Hydrate, Car- bolic Acid, Thymol. Morphinae Acetas, gr. i—gr. ss (8 to 30 mgm). Solu- bility—Water, i in 2|-.