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
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...
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839 Excerpt: ...as Dr. Hancock very justly observes, the danger of promulgating the analysis of a nostrum (which I dare say Dr. Paris obtained of some good-natured druggist, who in the plenitude of his wisdom dogmatically vouched for the correctness of the analysis) is far more dangerous than the nostrum itself (be it objectionable), ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839 Excerpt: ...as Dr. Hancock very justly observes, the danger of promulgating the analysis of a nostrum (which I dare say Dr. Paris obtained of some good-natured druggist, who in the plenitude of his wisdom dogmatically vouched for the correctness of the analysis) is far more dangerous than the nostrum itself (be it objectionable), for in this instance, had any unfortunate being been induced to have sent to a druggist to have prepared this correct result of analysis, it is more than probable but that unhappy creature would, long before he had taken the first bottle, be made conscious that he would have no occasion for a second; but that " his days were numbered." DE VELVO'S SYRUP Is supposed to be a decoction of dulcamara, licorice, dockwork and angelica, suffering the dregs after coction to subside, pouring off the supernatant liquor, to which add sugar, and boil to the consistence of syrup. OPODELDOC. In preparing opodeldoc, according to the Pharmacopoeia, it is impossible to obtain at solution of the hard soap, from the fact of rosemary spirit being ordered as the menstruum; the very thing of all others to prevent solution. HANNAY'S LOTION, OR PREVENTIVE WASH, Is prepared by adding two ounces of solution of potash to six ounces of distilled water. Remark.--There is no utility in the use of the solution of potash as a preventive remedy. If any advantage is to be found as an antidote, it must be by immersing the glands into some such lotion as the following: --Take ten grains of corrosive sublimate, half an ounce of spirit of wine, and a pint of rose water. I am acquainted with some practitioners who assert its utility any time within eight and forty hours after the time of liability of contracting disease. BLACK DROP. Dr. Armstrong's formula for preparing blac...
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