Tables of materia medica : a companion to the Materia Medica Museum.

  • Brunton, T. Lauder (Thomas Lauder), 1844-1916
Date:
1877
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Credit: Tables of materia medica : a companion to the Materia Medica Museum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Substance Source Preparation Properties Reactions Spiritus Athens. Ether. Mix -with rectified spirit = 1 in 3. • • • ... iETIIER PU- RUS. Ditto. AVashing and dis- tilling with lime and calcium chlo- ride. Colourless liquid, vo- latile and inflam- mable. • • • SPIRITUS ^THERIS NITEOSI. Rectified spirit. Distilling with ni- tric and sulphuric acids and copper, and adding recti- fied spirit. Mobile, in- flammable liquid, slightly yel- low, odour of apples. • • • jEther Aceticus. Ditto. Distilling with ace- tate of soda and sulphuric acid. Clear liquid, with a burp- ing taste. Resolution into acetate of potosh and alcohol on ad- dition of alcoholic solu- tion of potash. Alcohol Amyl- Saccharine Fermentation with Colourless Formation of valerianic icum. solutions. yeast. liquid, with penetrating odour. acid on exposure to air with platinum black. AMYL NITRIS. Amylic alco- hol. Boiling with nitric acid and purifying by fractional dis- tillation. Slightly yel- low liquid, characteris- tic odour. Formation of valerianate of potash when dropped on heated caustic potash. CHXiORO- FORiyCTTM Rectified spirit. Distilling with chlorinated lime and slaked lime, and washing with sulphuric acid. Limpid, co- lourless li- quid, with a sweet taste and agreeable odour. **Linimentum Chloroform! Chloroform. Equal parts of chloroform and camphor liniment. ... ... **Spiritus Chloro- form!. Ditto. Mix with rectified spirit. • • • • • « *Tinctura Chloro- form! Com- pos! ta. Ditto. 2 to 8 of rectified spirit and 10 of tincture of carda- moms. • • « • • • **Aqua Chloro- form!. Ditto. 1 draclim in 25 oz. of water. • • • • • • 1