The eclectic and general dispensatory : comprehending a system of pharmacy, materia medica, the formulae of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin pharmacopoeias, prescriptions of many eminent physicians, and receipts for the most common empirical medicines . acuanha powder operates as apowerful sudorific ; and is very efficacious-ly given in all cases, whether inflammatoryor not, in which full sweating is dose is from grs. v. to Qj. given dif-fused in water, or in the form of bolus, andassisted by plentiful dilution with tepidfluids ; but these must not be d;;ank imme-diately after t
The eclectic and general dispensatory : comprehending a system of pharmacy, materia medica, the formulae of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin pharmacopoeias, prescriptions of many eminent physicians, and receipts for the most common empirical medicines . acuanha powder operates as apowerful sudorific ; and is very efficacious-ly given in all cases, whether inflammatoryor not, in which full sweating is dose is from grs. v. to Qj. given dif-fused in water, or in the form of bolus, andassisted by plentiful dilution with tepidfluids ; but these must not be d;;ank imme-diately after taking the powder, as from t In the original Dovir^s Powder, the saline in-gredient was procured by dellagrailng a mixture ofequal parts of nitrate of potass, and sulphate of pot-ass ; and the nitre is still retained as an ingredientin the Com/jound Powder of Ipecacuanha and Opiumof the French Codex. The Pharmacopceia Danicaand the Pharmacopffiia Austriaca, order sugar insteadof any salt; but it is less calculated to assist in thepulverization of the opium, and is apt also to attractmoisture, and form the powder into a solid following table shows the proportion of opiumin this powder, as ordered in the principal Pharma-copceias of POWDERS. 455 such a circumstance it is very apt to be re-jected by vomiting. Ten grains of thispowder contain one grain of opium. PULVIS KINO COMPOSITUS, Poiuder of Kino. Take of Kino, Jifleen drachms; Cinna-mon bark, half an ounce,- hard Opium, adrachm. Kub them separately to a very finepowder, and then mix. This is an astringent anodyne powder,now, for the first time, introduced into thePharmacopoeia. The dose is from grs. 9j. Twenty grains of the powder con-tain one grain of Opium. PULVIS QUERCUS MAKING, JDul).Poivder of Yellow Bladder-wrack. Take of Bladder-wrack in flower, mh;/quantity. Let it be dried, and freed fromthe sordes, then exposed to heat in an ironvessel, or a crucible, to which a perforatedlid is a
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