Volume 2

The Edinburgh new dispensatory containing 1. The elements of pharmaceutical chemistry. 2. The materia medica ... 3. The pharmaceutical preparations and compositions. Including translations of the London pharmacopoeia of 1825 ... Edinburgh pharmacopoeia ... 1817; Dublin pharmacopoeia ... 1807 / By Andrew Duncan.

  • Duncan, Andrew, Jun., 1773-1832
Date:
1826
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Credit: The Edinburgh new dispensatory containing 1. The elements of pharmaceutical chemistry. 2. The materia medica ... 3. The pharmaceutical preparations and compositions. Including translations of the London pharmacopoeia of 1825 ... Edinburgh pharmacopoeia ... 1817; Dublin pharmacopoeia ... 1807 / By Andrew Duncan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ‘Turis is a troublesome process. It is not easy to make an uniform mixture of the opium with the tincture; and the sof- tening of the liquorice in an undetermined quantity of warm water, and its subsequent incorporation, are equally incon- venient. ‘They are more easily prepared, and the uniform diffusion of the opium is more certainly attained, by previous- ly drying and reducing to powder the opium and liquorice, which are to be intimately mixed with the powdered gum ara- bic. This is to be beat into a mass first with the tincture, and then the syrup, and if necessary a little water gradually added. Refined extract of liquorice may be used ; and it is easily powdered in the cold, after it has been laid for some days in a dry and rather warm place ; but its quantity must be increased to 7.5 ounces, and that of the gum arabic re- duced to 2.5. Seven and a half of these troches contain about one grain of opium. ‘These troches are medicines of approved efficacy in tickling coughs depending on irritation of the fauces, di- minishing the irritability of the parts themselves. Trocuiscit GumMosi. Ed. Gum Troches. Take of Gum arabic, four parts; Starch, one part ; Refined sugar, twelve parts. Powder them, and make them into a proper mass with rose- water, so as to form troches. Tuts is a very agreeable. pectoral, and may be used at pleasure. It is calculated for allaying the tickling in the throat which provokes coughing. TROCHISCI NITRATIS POTASSE. Ed. Lroches of Nitrate of Potass. Take of Nitrate of potass, one part; Double refined sugar, three parts. Rub together to powder, and form them, with mucilage of gum tragacanth, into a mass, to be divided into troches. ‘Tus may be an agreeable form for the exhibition of nitre ; but if the quantity taken be considerable, it is apt to occa- sion uneasiness in the stomach, which can only be prevented by large dilution with aqueous liquors. .