Useful Drugs, Prepared Under the Direction and Supervision of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry of the American Medical Association: A List of Drugs Selected to Supply the Demand for a Less Extensive Materia Medica and Especially to Serve as a Basis for the Teaching of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, and for Examinations on These Subjects by State Licensing Boards, with a Discussion of Their Actions, Uses and Dosage

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Page 94 - Oil of peppermint occurs as a colorless liquid, with the characteristic peppermint odor and a strongly aromatic, pungent taste, followed by a sensation of cold when air is drawn into the mouth.
Page 94 - 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 103 - A mixture containing a proteolytic ferment, or enzyme, obtained from the glandular layer of the fresh stomach of the hog, Sus scrofa, var. domestlcus Gray (Fam. Suida). It digests not less than 3000 times its own weight of freshly coagulated and disintegrated Egg Albumin.
Page 129 - A volatile oil obtained from black mustard by maceration with water and subsequent distillation, yielding, when assayed by the process given in the US Pharmacopeia, not less than 92 per cent, of allyl iso-thiocyanate.
Page 127 - A solution in physiological solution of sodium chloride of certain antitoxic substances obtained from the blood serum or plasma of the horse, Equua Caballus Linne
Page 58 - Collodion, USP— A solution containing, in 100 Cc., 4 Gm. of pyroxylin, or guncotton, in a mixture of 3 volumes of ether and 1 volume of alcohol. It is used as a protective and a vehicle chiefly in "the form of: COLLODIUM FLEXILE (COLLOD.
Page 104 - PROPERTIES: It occurs as a colorless or very slightly yellowish, oily, transparent liquid, without odor or taste, but giving off, when heated, a faint odor of petroleum.
Page 53 - A mixture of neutral principles extracted from Goa powder, a substance found deposited in the wood of Vouacapoua Araroba. PROPERTIES: Chrysarobin is a pale orange-yellow to brownish, microcrystalline powder, tasteless, odorless and irritating to the mucous membrane.
Page 101 - 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 taunts.
Page 50 - Chenopodium ambrosioides anthelminticum. It should be kept in wellstoppered amber-colored bottles, in a cool place, protected from light. PROPERTIES: Oil of chenopodium is a colorless or pale yellow liquid, with a pungent, irritating odor and a bitter taste. It is soluble (1:8) in 70 per cent, alcohol.

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