A universal formulary : containing the methods of preparing and administering officinal and other medicines : the whole adapted to physicians and pharmaceutists . the constituents, which can be pulverized, must be reduced to thestate of a fine powder, and then thoroughly mixed together. 2. If soft ingl-edients enter into the composition they must be trituratedwith the harder aiticles, which thus serve as an intermedium. 3. No deliquescent salt should enter into the composition of officinal pills;otherwise they will become altered and decomposed. 4. The nature of the excipient should be suited
A universal formulary : containing the methods of preparing and administering officinal and other medicines : the whole adapted to physicians and pharmaceutists . the constituents, which can be pulverized, must be reduced to thestate of a fine powder, and then thoroughly mixed together. 2. If soft ingl-edients enter into the composition they must be trituratedwith the harder aiticles, which thus serve as an intermedium. 3. No deliquescent salt should enter into the composition of officinal pills;otherwise they will become altered and decomposed. 4. The nature of the excipient should be suited to that of the constituents:thus, sjrups are to be used for most vegetable powders ; soap for fatty mat-ters; calcined magnesia for copaiba and turpentine. In some cases, noexcipient is required, as for most of the gum resins. Extracts can rarely bemade into pills without the addition of some vegetable powder; even if theyare of a firm consistence, extracts are usually h3rgroscopic, or part with themoisture contained in them so slowly, that pills made of such preparationsalone will generally lose their globular shape when kept on hand for several Fiff. Counter Drawer contatninq a Pill-machine,A. Pill-machine. B. Pill-cutter. C. Roller. D. D. Sides of the drawer. da3S. Salts which are easil}^ soluble dissolve in the water contained in theextracts, and if the latter be soft and are prescribed in sufficient quantitywith the former, the mass will liquefy, requiring then a considerable quantityof vegetable powder for forming a mass of good pilular consistence. Muci-lage, which is often ordered in the formation of various pills, is only suitedto those which are to be used in a short time after they are made; but is not PILLS AND BOLUSES. 643 Fiff. 12. suited to such as are to be kept, because pills, into which it enters as anexcipieut, become so hard as to pass through the bowels almost unaltered. 5. The excipieut should be gradually added, and the mass beaten andtriturated till
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