Magnacopia : a chemico-pharmaceutical library of useful and profitable information for the practitioner, chemist and druggist, surgeon-dentist, &c. &c. ; containing several hundred new forms, with comments and annotations on the pharmacopoeia, together with a variety of other information / by william Bateman.

  • Bateman, William.
Date:
1839
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Credit: Magnacopia : a chemico-pharmaceutical library of useful and profitable information for the practitioner, chemist and druggist, surgeon-dentist, &c. &c. ; containing several hundred new forms, with comments and annotations on the pharmacopoeia, together with a variety of other information / by william Bateman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ACIDUM SULPHURICUM. More or less impregnated with lead, from being prepared in leaden chambers, which separates on diluting it with water. As a medicine, it is of great use in hemorrhage, phthisis, haemoptysis, &c. when the bowels are not irritable. A morbid alternation be- tween the bowels and the skin frequently prevents its use. ACIDUM TARTARICUM. In preparing this acid, the bitartrate of potash, containing two portions of acid to one of base, it consequently changes itself on the addition of the lime with another base, form- ing a tartrate of potash and lime, the carbonic acid of the lime escaping during the decom- position. In the latter state, the lime falls to the bottom, being insoluble, whilst the tartrate of potash remains in solution, when, by adding hydrochloric acid and lime (hydro- chlorate), an action is again produced by