A Handbook of Materia Medica, Pharmacy, and Therapeutics, Including the Physiological Action of Drugs, the Special Therapeutics of Disease, Official and Practical Pharmacy, and Minute Directions for Prescription WritingP. Blakiston's Son & Company, 1902 - 935 pages |
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Page 415 - A mixture of the enzymes naturally existing in the pancreas of warm-blooded animals, usually obtained from the fresh pancreas of the hog, Sus scrofa or the ox, Bos taurus.
Page 381 - Menthol occurs as colorless, acicular or prismatic crystals, having a strong and pure odor of peppermint and a warm, aromatic taste, followed by a sensation of cold when air is drawn into the mouth.
Page 279 - A yellowish liquid, soluble in an equal part of alcohol or of glacial acetic acid. Becomes darker and thicker by age and exposure to air. Dose, gtt. jv. Aqua Cinnamomi, Cinnamon Water, — has of the Oil 2, triturated with Precipitated Calcium Phosphate 4, and Distilled Water to looo.
Page 154 - Gramineae), caused to enter the incipient stage of germination by artificial means and dried. The germination is allowed to go far enough to develop the maximum amount of Diastase, the peculiar ferment by which the starch of the grain is converted into glucose. Malt is the source of beer, ale and whisky, and is composed of the germinated, dead grains with their acrospires and radicles.
Page 545 - ... brain, and also has a distinct influence upon the heart but none upon the intestinal tract. Morphine acts upon the brain and does not influence the heart, but has a powerful effect upon the intestinal tract.
Page 414 - A proteolytic ferment or enzyme obtained from the glandular layer of fresh stomachs from healthy pigs, and capable of digesting not less than 3000 times its own weight of freshly coagulated and disintegrated egg albumen, when tested by the process given below.
Page 465 - Sugar of milk occurs as white, hard, crystalline masses or a white powder feeling gritty on the tongue, odorless and having a faintly sweet taste. It is freely soluble in water (1:5).
Page 207 - Oleum Aurantii Florum, Oil of Orange- Flowers (Oil of Neroli], — a volatile oil, distilled from the fresh flowers of the bitter orange. Is the most important constituent of Cologne Water (Spiritus Odoratus), and is soluble in an equal volume of Alcohol. Dose, git.
Page 207 - Oleum Aurantii Corticis, Oil of Orange Peel, — a volatile oil, obtained by expression from the fresh peel of either orange. Is soluble in about 4 times its volume of alcohol, and is an ingredient of the two officiai Spirits of Orange and also of Spiritus Myrcise (Hay Rum).
Page 311 - A neutral principle obtained from elaterium, a substance deposited by the juice of the fruit of Ecballium Elaterium.