Materia Medica, Pharmacy and Therapeutics: Including the Physiological Action of Drugs, the Special Therapeutics of Disease, Official and Practical Pharmacy, Minute Directions for Prescription Writing and Avoiding Incompatibility, Also the Antidotal and Antagonistic Treatment of Poisoning

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P. Blakiston's Son & Company, 1906 - 914 pages

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Page 371 - It is officially described as 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 albumin, when tested by the official process.
Page 473 - ... in the proportion of two parts of the former to one of the latter, and expressible by the symbol H2O.
Page 339 - 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 124 - Graminaceae), 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 whiskey, and is composed of the germinated, dead grains with their acrospires and radicles.
Page 7 - Liquid preparations made by boiling vegetable substances with water. As very few drugs contain active ingredients which are not injured by heat, these preparations have never obtained favor with scientific physicians.
Page 405 - It differs from true diabetes, however, in the fact that the sugar of the blood is not increased in amount. The glycosuria is not due to any change in the general metabolism of the body, therefore, but to some alteration of the renal epithelium, by which the blood sugar escapes into the urine instead of being retained in the body and used as a source of energy. This has been definitely proven...
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Page 102 - Alcohol,— a liquid composed of about 92.3 per cent, by weight, or 94.9 per cent, by volume, of Ethyl Alcohol, and about 7.7 per cent., by weight, of water.
Page 325 - Oil of Juniper), — is a product of the dry distillation of the wood of Juniperus Oxycedrus. It is a tar-like substance, of uncertain composition and purity; insoluble in water, partially soluble in alcohol, completely so in ether, chloroform or carbon disulphide.
Page 303 - Indeed, as Dr. Ring"er said in the earlier editions of his Handbook of Thera"peutics, the phenomena produced by mercury are singularly similar to those which will result from syphilis, and the "serious symptoms known as secondary and tertiary syphilis "can be produced both by syphilis and by mercury.

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