. Dental materia medica and therapeutics; with special reference to the rational application of remedial measures to dental diseases ... iled and filtered distilled water. The hypodermic solution can be made extemporaneously in afew seconds as follows: Place a tablet in a sterile glass dish, add20 minims (1 Cc.) of water, and, to facilitate the solution, mashthe tablet. The solution is now ready for immediate use. Ready-made sterile solutions of local anesthetics are also soldat present, and are marketed in hermetically sealed ampuls ofvarious designs. To open the ampul, a small groove is made
. Dental materia medica and therapeutics; with special reference to the rational application of remedial measures to dental diseases ... iled and filtered distilled water. The hypodermic solution can be made extemporaneously in afew seconds as follows: Place a tablet in a sterile glass dish, add20 minims (1 Cc.) of water, and, to facilitate the solution, mashthe tablet. The solution is now ready for immediate use. Ready-made sterile solutions of local anesthetics are also soldat present, and are marketed in hermetically sealed ampuls ofvarious designs. To open the ampul, a small groove is made with LOCAL ANESTHETICS. 463 a file at one end, which is then readily broken off. The contentsare aspirated by inserting the syringe provided with the needledirectly into the opened ampul. The practitioner is especially cautioned in regard to the use oflocal anesthetics in the form of ready-made solutions. Solutionsof cocain, even when rendered sterile by fractional sterilization,will not remain so after the contents of the bottle are exposed tothe air for a short time. Ready-made solutions that are sold in the shops under more or. Figure 75. Glass Measure for Local Anesthetics. The measure is marked for 10, 20, 30, or 40 is useful for measuring- anesthetic solutions, or for dissolving- tablets in stipulated quantitiesof liquids. less fanciful names require still greater precaution. The recently(1906) enacted Food and Drugs Act requires that all solutionscontaining cocain, eucain, and other similar alkaloids must be solabeled. Most of the many so-called safe and reliable anestheticsfound in the market contain cocain or its substitute in varyingquantities. The addition of adrenelin to a ready-made solutionnot only destroys this alkaloid in a very short time, but the productof its decomposition with the decomposed cocain make the solution 464 LOCAL ANESTHESIA. still more dangerous. The printed formulas that accompanymany of the ready-made solutions of local anesthetics
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