New homoeopathic pharmacopoeia & posology, or the mode of preparing homoeopathic medicines, and the administration of doses / compiled and translated from the German works of Buchner and Gruner, and the French work of Jahr, with original contributions by Charles J. Hempel.

  • Hempel, Charles J. (Charles Julius), 1811-1879.
Date:
1850
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Credit: New homoeopathic pharmacopoeia & posology, or the mode of preparing homoeopathic medicines, and the administration of doses / compiled and translated from the German works of Buchner and Gruner, and the French work of Jahr, with original contributions by Charles J. Hempel. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    foil, are rubbed upon a hard, fine hone under water, or sometimes under alcohol, for ex.: iron. Of these pulverized substances, you take one grain; mercury may be used in the liquid state ; of petroleum, you take one drop instead of one grain. Pour this grain into an unglazed porcelain mortar. Then you take thirty-three grains of sugar of milk, and mix them with the drug by triturating the mass with some force for about six minutes by means of a porcelain pestle ; before you triturate, stir the mass for a little while with a spatula. Having triturated the mass, you stir it again for about four minutes, scraping up that part which covers the bottom of the porcelain mortar, and also that which adheres to the pestle ;* then you tri- turate again with great force for six minutes, without, however, adding anything new. This mass you scrape up again, for four minutes, add another thirty- three grains of sugar of milk, stir the new compound for a moment with the spatula, then triturate it for six minutes with the pestle, scrape it up for four mi- nutes, triturate again with great force for six minutes, scrape the mass up again for four minutes, then add the last thirty-three grains of sugar of milk, and with this last added portion proceed as with the two former. This powder you enclose in a well-corked glass, and mark it with the name of the substance, and the figure 100; to show that this is the one hun- dredth potency of the substance, f * When the process of trituration is completed, mortar, pestle, and spatula, are to be repeatedly immersed in boiling water, being carefully wiped and dried after every immersion. The mortar, pestle, and spatula, may then be exposed to a red-hot heat. This will suffice to satisfy even the most anxious minds that no atom of the medicinal substance has re- mained adhering to either mortar, pestle, or spatula. + The preparation of the one hundredth potency of phosphorus by pulverization requires some modifications. First you take one hun- dred grains of sugar of milk, and, by means of fifteen drops of water, you make them into a sort of paste in the mortar. Then you cut one gram of phosphorus into twelve pieces, kneading them into a paste by means of the moistened pestle, together with the one hundred grains of sugar