The pharmacopoeia of the King and Queen's College of Physicians in Ireland. MDCCCL.

Date:
1850
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Credit: The pharmacopoeia of the King and Queen's College of Physicians in Ireland. MDCCCL. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ACIDUM NITRICUM DILUTUM. Take of Pure Nitric Acid, four fluid ounces; Distilled Water, twenty-nine ounces: Mix. The specific gravity of this acid is 1092. ACIDUM NITRO-MURIATICUM, Take of Pure Nitric Acid, one fluid ounce; Pure Muriatic Acid, two fluid ounces: Mix in a green glass bottle, furnished with an ac- curately ground stopper, and keep in a cool place. ACIDUM SULPHURICUM PURUM. Take of Oil of Vitriol of Commerce, any convenient quantity: Introduce it into a small plain retort, containing a few slips of platinum foil, and, passing the beak of the retort into a Florence flask which is to be used as a receiver, with the aid of a small charcoal fire or gas-lamp, distil over one-tenth of the acid. This being rejected, and a fresh receiver of the same kind connected with the retort, let the distillation be resumed, and continued until no more than about an ounce of liquid remains behind. The distilled product should now be transferred to and preserved in a well-stopped bottle. The specific gravity of this acid is 1846.