The Book of prescriptionsLindsay and Blakiston, 1865 - 538 pages |
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Page iv - Recipes in Patent and Proprietary Medicines, Druggists' Nostrums, etc.; Perfumery and Cosmetics ; Beverages, Dietetic Articles and Condiments ; Trade Chemicals, Scientific Processes, and an Appendix of Useful Tables.
Page iv - Huntsman's process is so extensively practised, and is so well known, that it is unnecessary to do more than recall to mind that crude pig iron has first to go through all the stages of melting, refining, puddling, hammering, and rolling, in order to produce a bar of malleable iron as nearly pure as the most careful manipulation in charcoal fires can make it. Bar iron, on which...
Page iv - THE POCKET FORMULARY AND SYNOPSIS OF THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN PHARMACOPOEIAS; comprising standard and approved Formula for the Preparations and Compounds employed in Medical Practice. • i Eighth Edition, corrected and enlarged. 18ino. cloth, 6s. DR. HENRY BENNET. A PRACTICAL TREATISE'' ON INFLAMMATION AND OTHER DISEASES OF THE UTERUS.
Page xxiii - For an adult, suppose the dose to be 1 or 1 drachm. Under 1 year, will require only 1 — 12th 5 grains.
Page v - Containing over 3100 Prescriptions, collected from the Practice of the most Eminent Physicians and Surgeons — English, French, and American ; a Compendious History of the Materia Medica, Lists of the Doses of all Officinal and Established Preparations, and an Index of Diseases and their Remedies. By HENRY BEASLEY. Seventh Edition. Cloth, $2.00 Druggists' General Receipt Book. Comprising a copious Veterinary Formulary ; Recipes in Patent and Proprietary Medicines, Druggists...
Page iv - Second American, from the Sixth London Edition. In One Volume. Price $1.50. The fact that Mr. Beasley's Formulary has reached a sixth edition, is a sufficient proof of the estimation in which it is held by the medical and pharmaceutical public. It is, in fact, a very comprehensive work, containing a great mass of information in a very small compass. The arrangement is alphabetical, as being most convenient.
Page xvi - Donee alvus bis dejiciatur.. .until the bowels have been twice evacuated Donee alvus soluta fuerit until the bowels are opened..
Page 271 - ADMINISTRATION'.—In powder the dose of chiretta is twenty grains. An infusion may be made with half an ounce of the root to a pint of boiling water; after standing for two hours it should be strained. It may be given in the dose of from one to three ounces before dinner. Mr. Baker, above cited, states that the natives of Hindostan prefer the decoction to the infusion, and make it by gently boiling half an ounce of the dried cut herb in a pint of...
Page 202 - ... oil. The mixture is put up in capsules. The patent states: "• • • The black coffee produces a depressing effect counteracting that of the liquor, and the oil prevents the spirit from rising to the head. • • • " Page 196 of the Beasley publication states: "Roasted Coffee is exhilarant and antisoporific ; and is used to counteract the effects of opium, alcohol, and other narcotic poisons. It is best prepared by percolation, with from 1 to 2 ounces of ground coffee to a pint of boiling...
Page 437 - We are accustomed to give hexamethyltetramine in doses of ten to twenty grains three times a day, the drug being dissolved in half a glass of water.