The Extra Pharmacopoeia of Unofficial Drugs and Chemical and Pharmaceutical Preparations, Band 21

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H.K. Lewis, 1884
 

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Seite 197 - ... burning with a luminous flame and producing dense white fumes. Insoluble in water, but soluble in ether and in boiling Oil of Turpentine.
Seite 192 - C.), (or the diluted milk may be divided into two equal portions, one of which may be heated to the boiling point and then added to the cold portion, the mixture will then be of the required temperature.) Two...
Seite 195 - A light yellowish-brown powder, having a faint but not disagreeable odour, and a slightly saline taste, without any indication of putrescence. Very little soluble in water or spirit. Two grains of it, with an ounce of distilled water, to which five minims of hydrochloric acid have been added, form a mixture in which 100 grains of hard-boiled white of egg, in thin shavings, will dissolve on their being digested together for about four hours at a temperature of 98° F.
Seite 78 - Both chloroform and ethidene administered to animals have a decided effect in reducing the blood-pressure, while ether has no appreciable effect of this kind. 2. Chloroform reduces the pressure much more rapidly and to a greater extent than ethidene. 3. Chloroform has sometimes an unexpected and apparently capricious effect on the heart's action, the pressure being reduced with great rapidity almost to nil, while the pulsations are greatly retarded or even stopped.
Seite 159 - ... that jaborandi locally applied to the eye causes, (1) contraction of the pupil ; (2) tension of the accommodative apparatus of the eye, with approximation of the nearest and furthest points of distinct vision ; (3) amblyopic impairment of vision from diminished sensibility of the retina. These effects, however, do not last long. In his case the approximation of the near and far points of distinct vision declared itself in a quarter of an hour, and reached its maximum in about forty minutes. It...
Seite 80 - A mixture of ether and chloroform is as effective as pure chloroform, and a safer agent when deep and prolonged anaesthesia is to be induced ; though slow in its action, it is sufficiently rapid in its operation to be convenient for general use.
Seite 258 - Chloride of zinc has the remarkable peculiarity among antiseptics of producing such an effect upon the tissues of a recent wound, when applied in a watery solution of about forty grains to the ounce, that...
Seite 9 - Sponges, hands of operators, &c., dipped in solution of carbolic acid (1 in 20). (3) Instruments covered with oil, containing one-tenth part carbolic acid ; some are dipped into or kept in watery solution (1 in 20). (4) During intermission of spray the wound is covered with a cloth dipped in carbolic acid solution (1 in 20)..
Seite 10 - ... in 40). It is thus immersed just before being laid upon the wound, and is intended to prevent irritation, which would be caused by the actual contact of the antiseptic dressing with the wound.
Seite 100 - Creasote... ... ... 80 minims. Light Carbonate of Magnesia 30 grains. Water to ... ... 1 ounce. A teaspoonful in a pint of water at 140° F.

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