The practice of pharmacy : a treatise on the modes of making and dispensing official, unofficial, 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 / [Joseph Price Remington].

  • Remington, Joseph P. (Joseph Price), 1847-1918.
Date:
1894
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Credit: The practice of pharmacy : a treatise on the modes of making and dispensing official, unofficial, 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 / [Joseph Price Remington]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    QUESTIONS ON CHAPTERS V. AND VI. DISTILLATION AND SUBLIMATION. DISTILLATION. What are the elements of distillation ? How many times its weight of water at 20° C. (68° P.) are required to coij- dense steam at 100° C. (212° F.) ? What two forms of apparatus are used in distillation ? What is the form of an alembic ? What is the body of it called ? What is the form of a retort ? Has a retort any advantages over an alembic, and if so, what are they ? What is a plain retort? What is a tubulated retort ? Of what materials are retorts made ? For what purposes are the various kinds used? What are the essential qualities of a good retort? What are the advantages of using a flask for distillation? What is the best shape for a flask? How may ghiss tubes be cut? How may glass tubes be bent ? What is a cork-borer, and how is it used ? How may rubber corks be cut ? What is the advantage of rubber corks ? What substitute for rubber corks may be made ? How may a satisfactory lute for closing joints be made? How may bladder be used to join tubes ? How may paper be used to join tubes? Is rubber superior to bladder for such purposes ? If so, why ? How is it used ? What are receivers ? What are tubulated and quilled receivers ? What are adapters, and how are they used? How may plain retorts be charged ? What is a Welter's safety-tube? For what purposes are retort-stands used ? How may funnels or percolators be protected from the breakage due to con- tact with the iron rings of the ordinary retort-stand ? What is meant b)'' bumping in distillation ? How may it be prevented or lessened? What is a Liebig's condenser? Describe the pinchcock contrived by Dr. Squibb. Describe Mohr's spring pinchcock. Describe Hoffman's screw pinchcock. How may vapors be condensed when the ordinary condensers and a sieaay supply of water are not at hand ? What is a condensing worm ? - What is the best metal to use for making it? What objection is there to copper ? What objection is there to iron ? What objection is there to tinned iron ? What objection is there to earthen-ware? What is the best material to use for pharmaceutical stills ? Describe Procter's still. Describe Wiegand's still. Describe Curtman's still. Describe Prentiss's still. Describe Rice's still and condenser. What is the disadvantage of Liebig's condenser? What is the disadvantage of a worm condenser? Describe Remington's still and condenser.