The standard formulary : a collection of nearly five thousand formulas : for pharmaceutical preparations, family remedies, toilet articles, veterinary remedies, soda fountain requisites, and miscellaneous preparations especially adapted to the requirements of retail druggists / by Albert E. Ebert and A. Emil Hiss.

  • Ebert, Albert E. (Albert Ethelbert), 1840-1906.
Date:
1900
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Credit: The standard formulary : a collection of nearly five thousand formulas : for pharmaceutical preparations, family remedies, toilet articles, veterinary remedies, soda fountain requisites, and miscellaneous preparations especially adapted to the requirements of retail druggists / by Albert E. Ebert and A. Emil Hiss. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    Mix in a wide-mouth glass bottle or other suitable vessel. Place in the mixture as much catgut as is to be impregnated, adding more liquid if necessary, to completely im- merse the gut. Allow the gut to remain in the turbid fluid until the latter becomes clear, agitating from time to time. When the liquid becomes transparent, the gut will have become soft and have absorbed water and acid. It is now wound upon glass spools, the whole then being immersed in a mixture of carbolic acid and olive oil in the proportion of 1 of the former to 4 of the latter.—D. II. Block's process: Roll the cleansed catgut upon glass spools, macerate in a 5-per-cent aqueous solution of carbolic acid for 48 hours, then unwind in a dish containing a freshly prepared 5-per-cent aqueous carbolic acid solution, and now re- wind (tightly) the gut upon the spool. Pre- serve in a 5-per-cent solution of carbolic acid in alcohol.—D. III. Block's carbolic alcohol process: Prepare like the preceding, using an alco- holic solution of carbolic acid instead of an aqueous one as above.—D. Catgut, Cbxomated. Chromic acid gr.. 2 Carbolic acid, crystal gr. 400 Distilled water fl.oz. 173^ Dissolve and add an amount of catgut equal in weight to the cajbolic acid used; al- low to remain in the solution for 48 hours, then remove, dry, wind upon glass spools, and place in carbolized oil. This is Lister's process for hardening gut so that it will not be readily absorbed. Catgoit, Juniper, Kocher. Macerate catgut for 24 hours in oil of juni- per berries, then preserve either in this oil or in the following solution: Mercuric chloride gr. 5 Glycerin fl.oz. 2 Alcohol fl.oz. 27 —D Catgut, Mercuric Chloride. (Subli- mated Catgut.) 1. Bergman's process: Catgut rolled on glass spools is to be placed in 5-per-cent alcoholic solution of mercuric chloride, renewing the solution every 2 days, until it remains Sear, then pre- serve the gut in this solution. 2. Schede and Kuemmel's process: Catgut rolled upon glass spools is to be placed for 12 hours in a 5-per-cent aqueous solution of mercuric chloride; then preserve in ^2 per-cent alcoholic solution of the same salt to which has previously been added 10 per cent of glycerin.—D. Caustic, Arsenical, Ratier's. Arsenious acid gr. 20 Kino gr. 160 Cinnabar gr. 320 All should be in fine powder. Caustic, Black, Velpeau's. Triturate powdered licorice foot in a mor- tar, adding sulphuric acid until a suitable mass is formed. Caustic, Vienna. (Potassa cum Cake.) Triturate equal parts by weight of caustic potassa and lime together in a warm iron mortar so as to form a powder, and keep in a well-stoppered bottle.—U. S. P. Cerate, Brown. (Brown Ointment. —v Mother salve.—Unguentum fuscum.— Emplastrum fuscum molle.) I. Lead plaster av.oz. 8 Yellow wax av.oz. 3^ Lard av.oz. 4^ Melt the lead plaster and stir constantly while liquid, until it assumes a dark brown tint; add the wax and lard; allow to cool somewhat, and pour into molds.—Austr. Pharm. II. A more rational and easy method of preparation is the following: Black mother plaster av.oz. 8 Lard av.oz. 6|^ Yellow wax av.oz. 1^ Melt the plaster and wax, add . the lard, allow to cool somewhat, and pour into molds as before.—D. Cerate of Calamine. (Turner's Cerate. —Cerate of Zinc Carbonate.) Zinc carbonate av.oz. 1 Simple cerate av.oz. 5 —Eclectic. Under the name Turner's cerate, the National Formulary gives a preparation of