A treatise on pharmacy : designed as a text-book for the student, and as a guide for the physician and pharmacist, containing the officinal and many unofficinal formulas, and numerous examples of extemporaneous prescriptions / by Edward Parrish.

Date:
1874
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on pharmacy : designed as a text-book for the student, and as a guide for the physician and pharmacist, containing the officinal and many unofficinal formulas, and numerous examples of extemporaneous prescriptions / by Edward Parrish. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    Opodeldoc. Take of Common soap (sliced), three ounces. Camphor, an ounce. Oil of rosemary' Oil of origanum, each, a fiuidrachm. Alcohol, a pint. Digest the soap, by means of a sand-bath, with the alcohol till it is dissolved, then add the camphor and oils, and when they are dissolved pour the liquid into wide-mouth two-ounce bottles. British Oil. Take of Oil of turpentine f .fiv. Oil of flaxseed Oiij. Oil of amber Oj. Oil of juniper f.^ss. Petroleum (Barbadoes) 5'ij. Petroleum (American) ......... ^ij. Mix them well together. Whitehead's Essence of Mustard. Take of 01. terebinth Oxij. Campborse I5 lb. com. 01. succin. rectif. f siv. Sem. sinapis, pulv. (Flava) 16 oz. com. Digest for seven days, filter, and add— Tr. curcuma q. s.—Add color. Hooper's Female Fills. Parts. Take of Aloes 5viij 400. Dried sulphate of iron gij giss. I or Crystallized sulphate of iron ^iv J * Extract of black hellebore §ij 100. Myrrh |ij 100. Soap |ij 100. Powdered canella |j 50. Powdered ginger 5j 50. 1000. Beat them well together into a mass with syrup, or water, and divide into pills, each containing two and a half grains. Richards' Chalk Mixture. Take of Precip. carbonate of calcium. Sugar, of each §j. Comp. spt. lavender, Tinct. kino, of each f.oj- Essence of cinnamon 15 drops. Water f.5iii- Tincture of opium f 3j- Mix. J
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