The national formulary of unofficial preparations / by authority of the American Pharmaceutical Association.

Date:
1896
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Credit: The national formulary of unofficial preparations / by authority of the American Pharmaceutical Association. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    312. PULVIS ACETANILIDI COMPOSITUS. Compound Powder of Acetanilid. Aoetanilid, fifty grammes Caffeine, (wo grammes Tartaric Acid, three grammes Sodium Bicarbonate, forty-jive gra m mes 50 Gm. 2 Gm. 3 Gm. 45 Gm. Reduce the ingredients separately to a fine powder and mix them thoroughly. Note.—This preparation is popularly prescribed in New Orleans, under the name of “ Kamna-Fuga, ” as an antipyretic, and is claimed to have some advan- tages over acetanilid by itself. 313. PULVIS ALOES ET CANELLAE. Powder of Aloes and Canella. Hiera Pier a. Purified Aloes (U. S. P.), in fine powder, eighty grammes . . 80 Gm. Canella, in fine powder, twenty grammes 20 Gm. Mix them intimately. 314. PULVIS AMYCDAL/E COMPOSITUS. Compound Powder of Almond. Sweet Almond, sixty grammes 60 Gm. Sugar, in fine powder, thirty grammes 30 Gm. Acacia, in fine powder, ten grammes 10 Gm. Blanch the Sweet Almond, then dry them thoroughly with a soft cloth, and rub them lightly in a mortar, until they form a mass of a smooth consistence. Mix the Acacia and Sugar, add them to the mass previously prepared, and rub the whole to a coarse powder, which is to be preserved in a lightly covered jar. Note.—If 82c grains of this preparation be thoroughly triturated w'ith 17 fluid- ounces of Water, gradually added, and the mixture finally strained, the product will be about 16 fluidounces of Mistura Amygdala (U. S. P.). 315. PULVIS ANTICATARRHALIS. Catarrh Powder. Catarrh Snuff. Morphine Hydrochlorate, forty-one centigrammes 0.41 Gm. Acacia, in fine powder, twenty-five grammes 25 Gm. Bismuth Subnitrate, seventy-five grammes 75 Gm. Mix them intimately by trituration.