The practice of pharmacy : a treatise on the modes of making and dispensing officinal, unofficinal, and extemporaneous preparations, with descriptions of their properties, uses, and doses intended as a hand-book for pharmacists and physicians and a text-book for students / by Joseph P. Remington.

  • Remington, Joseph P. (Joseph Price), 1847-1918.
Date:
1885
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Credit: The practice of pharmacy : a treatise on the modes of making and dispensing officinal, unofficinal, and extemporaneous preparations, with descriptions of their properties, uses, and doses intended as a hand-book for pharmacists and physicians and a text-book for students / by Joseph P. Remington. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Make into a mass and divide into 24 pills. Knight's Pills. Powdered Aloes, 54 gr. Powdered Scammony, 27 gr. Powdered Gamboge, 9 gr. Mix, and make into 20 pills. Pills of Aloin and Podophyllin. Aloin, 24 gr. Podophyllin, 12 gr. Oleoresin of Ginger, 4 min. Triturate the solid ingredients into a uniform powder, add the Oleoresin, make a mass, and divide into 24 pills. Dose, 1 to 3 pills. Marshall's Pills. Compound Extract of Colocynth, Mass of Mercury, Powdered Aloes, Powdered Soap, Powdered Khubarh, of each, 60 gr. Make into 60 pills. Barker's Pills. Compound Extract of Colocynth, 20 gr, Extract of Hyoscyamus, 15 gr. Aloes, 10 gr. Extract of Nux Vomica, 5 gr, Podophyllum, 1 gr, Powdered Ipecac, 1 gr, Mix, and make into 12 pills. Boisragon Pills. (Dr. Hewson's formula.) Mild Chloride of Mercury, 12 gr. Powdered Scammony, 12 gr. Compound Extract of Colocynth, 40 gr. Oil of Caraway, 4 min. Aloes, 8 gr. Mix, and make into 14 pills. Cobb's Pills. Extract of Hyoscyamus, 30 gr. Extract of Conium, 30 gr. Extract of Colocynth, 40 gr. Extract of Nux Vomica, 4 gr. Mix, and divide into 30 pills. Laxative Pills. (Cole's.) Compound Extract of Colocynth, 60 gr. Mild Chloride of Mercury, 20 gr. Eesin of Podophyllum, 2 gr. Mix, and make into 20 pills. Aromatic Syrup of Galls. Nutgall, 240 gr. Cinnamon, 120 gr. Nutmeg, 120 gr. Glycerin, 6 fl. dr. Syrup, 6 fl. oz. Brandy, sufficient. Mix the powders, and, having moistened the mixture with a sufficient quantity of Brandy, pack it firmly in a small coni- cal glass percolator, and gradually pour Brandy upon it until it commences to drop; then insert a cork tightly in the lower orifice of the percolator, and let it stand twenty-four hours ; then withdraw the cork, and continue the percolation with Brandy until 6 fl. oz. of tincture are obtained. Mix this with the Glycerin, and evaporate by a water-bath, at a tempera- ture not exceeding 125° F., to 3 fl. oz., filter, and thoroughly mix with the Syrup. Astringent Tincture. (Aromatic Tincture of Galls.) (Gilbert's.) Nutgall, 16 oz. (av). Oil of Citron, 30 min. Oil of Bergamot, 30 min. Oil of Lemon, 30 min. Oil of Thyme, 8 min. Oil of Lavender, 8 min. Oil of Rosemary, 8 min. Tincture of Benzoin, 1 fl. dr. Alcohol (90 per cent.), sufficient. Exhaust the Gall by percolation with Alcohol, distil oif the Alcohol, and evap- orate to 8 fl. oz.; redissolve this extract in 8 fl. oz. of Alcohol, add the Oils, and filter. Pavesi's Haemostatic. Sulpho-Carbolic Acid, Benzoic Acid, Tannic Acid, Alcohol, Glycerin, Rose Water, 3 fl. dr. 37 gr. 37 gr. 3 fl. dr. 3 fl. dr. 3 fl. oz. The Sulpho-Carbolic Acid is prepared by mixing 1 part Sulphuric Acid and \ part Carbolic Acid and heating for a few minutes on a water-bath; the Benzoic Acid is dissolved in the Alcohol and Glycerin, the Tannic Acid in the Water, and both mixed. Haemostatic Collodion. (Pavesi's.) Tannic Acid, 80 gr. Benzoic Acid, 45 gr. Carbolic Acid, 158 min. Collodion, 3J fl. oz. Mix and dissolve. Pile Ointment. Morphine Acetate, 5 gr. Tannic Acid, 30 gr. Solution of Subacetate of Lead, 1 fl. dr. Ointment, 420 gr. Incorporate the Solution with the Oint- ment, then add the other ingredients. Glyceritum Acidi Tannici. U. S. 1870. Glycerite of Tannic Acid. Tannic Acid, 1 oz. (troy). Glycerin, 4 fl. oz. Rub them together in a mortar, then