. An introduction to practical pharmacy: designed as a text-book for the student, and as a guide to the physician and pharmaceutist. With many formulas and prescriptions . Canopy-top jar. Fig. 156. Fig. 157. Fig. Tie-over jar. Flat-top covered jar. Gallipot. The Uses of Extracts.—This class of preparations may be usedeither in the form of pills, solution, or mixture. They are chieflyprescribed in the pilular form, combined with other substances,and to this they are peculiarly adapted. One of the chief pointsin making pills is to increase or modify the effect in the highestdegree, without
. An introduction to practical pharmacy: designed as a text-book for the student, and as a guide to the physician and pharmaceutist. With many formulas and prescriptions . Canopy-top jar. Fig. 156. Fig. 157. Fig. Tie-over jar. Flat-top covered jar. Gallipot. The Uses of Extracts.—This class of preparations may be usedeither in the form of pills, solution, or mixture. They are chieflyprescribed in the pilular form, combined with other substances,and to this they are peculiarly adapted. One of the chief pointsin making pills is to increase or modify the effect in the highestdegree, without a corresponding increase of bulk. Hence the utility 166 FLUID EXTRACTS. of adding extracts to substances possessing no adhesiveness, choos-ing among them such as will most promote the therapeutic effect,while a plastic mass will be the result. Thus, in tonic pills, as ofsubcarbonate of iron or sulphate of quinia, extract of quassia or ofgentian would be preferable to an inert substance like conserve ofrose or mucilage. In dilute aqueous solutions, extracts are not generally preferableto the corresponding tinctures, but where the dose of the tincturewould be large, the physician often avails himself of the ex
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