A universal formulary : containing the methods of preparing and administering officinal and other medicines the whole adapted to physicians and pharmaceutists / by R. Eglesfeld Griffith.

  • Griffith, R. Eglesfeld (Robert Eglesfeld), 1798-1850.
Date:
[1854]
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Credit: A universal formulary : containing the methods of preparing and administering officinal and other medicines the whole adapted to physicians and pharmaceutists / by R. Eglesfeld Griffith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ACIDUM BENZOICUM. Arsenical Powder. B. White arsenic, one part. Calomel, one hundred and ninety-nine parts. ML\. Recommended in obstinate cases of lepra and cancerous ulcers. Dupuytren. Gum Arabic, two grains- Distilled water, q, g. Triturate tlie arsenic and pepper for a long time, add the gum and water, and rub well to- gether. Make twelve pills; eaeh of which will contain ^Lth of a grain of arsenic. G vihourt. Compound Powder of White Arsenic. R. White arsenic, six drachms. Powdered dragon’s blood, two drachms. Animal charcoal, four scruples. Cinnabar, three ounces. Mix, and triturate well. Has been used in the same description of cases. Van Mans. R. White arsenic, one part. Kirfc, eight parts. Cinnabar, sixteen parts. Mi.x, and triturate well. Ratier. Employed in the French hospitals as a caustic to cancerous sores. Arsenical Ointment. R. White arsenic, one drachm. Lard, Spermaceti cerate, each, six drachms. Melt the cerate and lard by a gentle heat, and add the arsenic; triturate well in a glass mortar till perfectly united. Soubeiran. Arsenical Cerate. R. Powdered white arsenic, one scruple. Simple cerate, one ounce. Mix the arsenic with the cerate softened by heat, and triturate well. Solution of Arsenic. R. White arsenic, one scruple. Distilled water, two fl. ounces. Dissolve. This and the foregoing ointments have been employed as applications to cance- rous sores, but are always dangerous from the poisonous symptoms induced by the absorption of the arsenic. R. White arsenic, fifty-five grains. Powdered black pepper, nine drachms. Conserve of roses, sufiicient. Mix, and make eight hundred pills. One daily in chronic psoriasis. Cazenave and SchedeL Pills of Arsenic and Opium. R. Arsenious acid, two grains. Powdered opium, eight grains. Soap, * one scruple. Beat together and divide into twenty-four pills. One to be taken three times a-day. Have been found useful in intermittent fevers, periodical headaches, neuralgia, and lepra. A. T. Thomson. \ ACIDUM BENZOICUM. Benzoic Acid. R. Benzoin, a pound. Put it into a suitable vessel on a sand-bath, gradually inerease the heat, and sublime as long as anything ascends. Wrap the sublimate in bibulous paper, and press, to separate the oil, and again sublime. V. S. Ph. Benzoic acid is in the form of white, feathery hexagonal crystals, when pure having no odor, but usually with an agreeable smell from tlie presence of oil. The taste is acid and acrid. It is converted into hippuric acid, and voided by the urine when taken by man, and has been ^eeommended in the uric acid diathesis and gout, but does not appear to be of any benefit. It has, however, been servieeable in catarrh of the bladder, and where there is a secretion of granular mucus with phosphates. It is also beneficial as a stimulating expectorant. Dose, ten to fifteen grains. Arsenical Pills. R. White arsenic, two grains. Powdered opium, three grains. White soap, eight grains. Powdered liquorice root, q. s. Mix well and divide into twenty pills. Each of these pills contains -^tath of a grain of ar- senic. They have been given in doses of one, or two, three times a-day, according to circum- stances, in diseases of an intermittent cha- racter. Ellis.- Arsenic and Pepper Pills. R. White arsenic, one grain. Black pepper, twelve grains. Mixture of Benzoic Acid AND Copaiba. R. Benzoic acid. Copaiba, White of egg. Camphor water. one drachm, half fi. ounce, q. s. seven fl. ounces. Mix. Dose, two tablespoonfuls tlircc times a- day. Recommended in chronic dysuria and vesical irritation. Walktr. Powder of Benzoic Acid and Ipe- cacuanha. R. Benzoic acid, two scruples. Ipecacuanha, six grains.