Aids to dispensing / by A. O. Bentley.

  • Bentley, Arthur Owen, 1898-1943.
Date:
1928
Catalogue details

Licence: In copyright

Credit: Aids to dispensing / by A. O. Bentley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Balsam of copaiba, ioT)\. Balsam of copaiba +oil of cubebs. Balsam of copaiba -bsandalwood oil. Creosote, i, 2, 3ll\. Extract of cascara (liquid), 3oll\. Extract of male fern (liquid), 5fl\ to 2o11\. Guaiacol, 1, 2tl\. Hsemaglobin, 3, 5 grains. Ichthyol, 3, 5 grains. Oil, cod-liver, iol!\ to 3oll|. Oil, olive, ioll\ to 3oTl\. Oil, castor, 10, 15, 20, 3oll|. Oil, sandalwood, 5, ioll\. Paraffin, liquid, 3oll\. Syrup of phosphate of iron with quinine and strychnine, 30, 6oll|. Terebene, 5ll( to ioll|. Turpentine, At one time it was the custom for pharmacists to prepare their own soft capsules. The moulds, called capsule “ olives,” upon which the capsules were formed were egg-shaped pieces of metal, each tapering to a thin stem which fitted into a wooden handle. The egg-shaped portions were slightly lubricated with an oily cloth; they were then dipped into a melted glyco-gelatin basis, withdrawn, and inverted. When set, the flexible capsules were pulled off the moulds and the projecting portions (formed by excess of the basis running down the stems of the moulds) were cut off with scissors. The medicament was then inserted in measured quantities by means of a graduated syringe, and the aperture closed by a drop of basis from the end of a glass rod. The capsules sold by wholesalers are usually made in large quantities by placing a sheet of glyco-gelatin material on a steel plate having numerous hollows or “ wells,” each of which is a mould for a capsule. The medicament is spread on the gelatin material and another glyco-gelatin sheet is placed on top. The whole is then covered with another steel plate