The record of pharmacy and therapeutics (part second) : being an account of improved pharmaceutical preparations, recently-introduced remedies, and a catalogue of unadulterated drugs and chemicals of the General Apothecaries' Company, (Limited), 49, Berners Street, Oxford Street, London.

  • General Apothecaries Company (London, England)
Date:
1857
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Credit: The record of pharmacy and therapeutics (part second) : being an account of improved pharmaceutical preparations, recently-introduced remedies, and a catalogue of unadulterated drugs and chemicals of the General Apothecaries' Company, (Limited), 49, Berners Street, Oxford Street, London. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    He also lent me a small work, publislied at Cransac, wliere are mineral springs, containing manganese as their most active ingredient. These have been in use from the time of the ancient Homans. They are used principally in chronic gout, chronic rheumatism, and in other cases where the con¬ stitution has been impaire.d from long-continned disease, or from other causes. ‘‘ It has, therefore, been in this class of cases that I have principally employed the sulphate of manganese. Also, in three cases of hypochondriasis, in which the bile is secreted of a very dark color—(the melancholia of the ancient Greeks.) And in all those cases of anemia, debility, and delicacy of con¬ stitution, where, notwithstanding thepresence of derangements of the biliary secretion, we should hesitate about giving- mercury ; and, probably, be disappointed by the inertness^ or uncertainty of taraxacum. “ The doses I have employed have been such as Dr. Pereira considered very small—namely, 5 grains once, Dvice, or thrice daily, with a drachm of sulphate of magnesia and 5 to 10 minims of acid snlph. dilut. This is continued until the characteristic etfect is produced on the biliary secretion. Sulphate of manganese has sometimes been given in doses of from 20 to 30 oTaiiis. “ The effect produced is the appearance of a secretion of orange-colored bile, remarkably different from the green secretion produced by mercury. If the doses be too large, or if continued too long, man¬ ganese produces irritation of the colon and rectum. Tlie effects produced are occasionlly very violent, from the in¬ cautious or excessive use of the mineral waters of Cransac.” All the Salts of Manganese are hejrt. Chromic Acid. Solution of Glirornic Acid. Mr. Marshall, of tJniversity College, has recently recom¬ mended this acid in solution as an escharotic, alleging that it is better than any in use hitherto, for warts of the genital organs, whether syphilitic, gonorrhoeal, or other; and he suggests a trial of it in other cases where the use of a power¬ ful caustic is indicated. The strength of the solution is 100 grains of the crystallized acid to one ounce of distilled water. B 2