A new supplement to the pharmacopæias of London, Edinburgh, Dublin and Paris

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Page 2 - The least active remedies operate very violently on some individuals, owing to a peculiarity of stomach, or rather disposition of body, unconnected with temperament. This state can be discovered only by accident or time ; but when it is known, it should always be attended to by the practitioner. In prescribing, the practitioner should always so regulate...
Page 302 - Every person was of course alarmed by this sudden chemical change ; but the lecturer explaining the cause of the phenomenon, the lady received no further injury than a practical lesson to rely more upon natural than artificial beauty in future.
Page 313 - ... when they are black they will not do, being too old. Throw a little salt over, and put them into a stew-pan with...
Page 209 - Take antimony, calcine it with a continued protracted heat, in a flat unglazed vessel, adding to it from time to time a sufficient quantity of any animal oil or salt, dephlegmated ; then boil it in melted nitre for a considerable time, and separate the powder from the nitre by dissolving it in water.
Page 272 - ... to the decomposition of that salt might alter the prussiate of iron. It will, therefore, be much better to leave a little alum, which may afterwards be carried off by washing. As soon as the alkaline liquor is added, the alumine precipitated becomes exactly mixed with the prussiate of iron, the intensity of which it lessens by bringing it to the tone of common Saxon blue. The matter is then thrown on a filter, and after being washed in clean water, is dried, This substance is a kind of blue verditer,...
Page 81 - ... of wine as will suffice to render it liquid, and, in another vessel, dissolve as much isinglass, previously a little softened in water, (though none of the water must be used), in French brandy or good rum, as will make a...
Page 59 - Boil them to a proper thickness, then add a quarter of a pound of sugar, and two spoonsful of yeast. Set the whole in a warm place near the fire, for six or eight weeks, then place it in the open air until it becomes a syrup ; lastly, decant, filter, and bottle it up, adding a little sugar to each bottle.
Page 158 - The first process consists in dissolving 58 grains of crystallized tartaric acid in alcohol, and mixing the liquid with 50 grains of the ferrocyanate of potassa dissolved in the smallest possible quantity of hot water. The...
Page 81 - Dissolve five or six bits of mastich, as large as peas, in as much spirits of wine as will suffice to render it liquid : in another vessel dissolve as much isinglass (which has been previously soaked in water till it is swollen and soft,) in...
Page 2 - The knowledge of these is essential 3 for those in the habitual use of stimulants and narcotics require larger doses to affect them when labouring under disease, whilst those who have habituated themselves to the use of saline purgatives are more easily affected by these remedies.

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