Companion to the latest edition of the British Pharmacopoeia ... / by Peter Squire ; assisted by his sons, Peter Wyatt Squire and Alfred Herbert Squire.

  • Squire, Peter.
Date:
1880
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Credit: Companion to the latest edition of the British Pharmacopoeia ... / by Peter Squire ; assisted by his sons, Peter Wyatt Squire and Alfred Herbert Squire. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Dose.—1 to o minims, diluted with weak mucilage oz. to each miuiin) ; or in a pill with crumb of bread. When prescribed in pills with Oxide of Silver, the mass will take fire unless the oxide be first mixed with Liquorice or other powder. (In all the Pharmacopoeias.) Preparations. MISTURA CREASOTI. Creasote, 16 minims ; Glacial Acetic Acid, 16 minims ; Spirit of Juniper, A drm.; Syrup, 1 oz.; Distilled Water, 15 oz.: mix. =(1 in 484). A good mode of adnrinistering Creasote, its unpleasant taste being concealed by the Juniper. It dissolves in the Water without the aid of the Acid. Mucilage will render Creasote emulsive with water. Dose.— 1 to 2 oz. (Not in other Pharmacopoeias.) UNGUENTTJM CREASOTI. Cream colour. Creasote, 1 ; Simple Ointment, 8: mix. =(1 in 9). (U.S. and Belg. (Ung. Rreosoti) 1 in 16 ; not in others.) Employed in mild cases of ringworm. VAPOR CREASOTI.—INHALATION. Creasote, 12 minims ; boiling Water, 8 oz. : mix the creasote and water in an apparatus so arranged that air may be made to pass through the solution for inhalation. (Not in other Pharmacopoeias.) Not Official. Aqua Creasoti. U.S. Creasote, 1; Water, 128; Ger. 1 and 100. Liquor. Carbonis Detergens.—An alcoholic solution of Coal Tar as obtained from the gas-works. It is almost black, smells strongly of Naphthaline, and is of light specific gravity. Prescribed by Mr. Startin to be used externally in skin diseases in the following manner :—Liq. Carbonis Detergentis, § oz.; Ac. Nitric. Dil., 1 drm.; Mist. Camphora) ad 8 oz. : to be sponged over the part affected when irritable and afterwards to bo dried off with soft linen. Mistura Crbasoti g. 0pio.—Creasote, 1 minim; Comp. Tincture of Camphor 30 minims; Spirit of Chloroform, 15 minims; Glycerine, 1 drm. ; Water to 1 oz' —Chest Hospital. CRETA. CHALK. Used for producing Carbonic Acid Gas. Chalk cliffs are remarkably absorbent of moisture, and cessoools even, made m the chalk, are always found dry. 1