Therapeutics, materia medica, and pharmacy...Blakiston, 1909 - 937 pages |
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Page 331 - 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 211 - Chloroform, — a liquid consisting of 99 to 99.4 per cent, by weight, of absolute Chloroform, and 0.6 to i per cent, of alcohol.
Page 220 - 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 217 - Solution), — is an aqueous solution of several chlorine compounds of sodium, containing at least 2.4 per cent. by •weight, of available Chlorine...
Page 372 - ... colorless solid, of a waxy lustre, having, at ordinary temperatures, about the consistence of beeswax. By long keeping, the surface becomes white or red, and occasionally black. It has a distinctive and disagreeable odor and taste (but should not be tasted, except in...
Page 523 - In the treatment of an ordinary furuncle with poultices, almost every surgeon must have seen occasionally the development of innumerable minute daughter-furuncles in the surface covered by the poultice. In phlegmonous inflammation of the fingers or hand, the prolonged use of the poultice is followed by maceration of the skin, extensive edema of the superficial structures, a flabby condition of the granulation — in fact all the evidences which point to the poultice as a means of favoring the extension...
Page 295 - Dr. Ringer said in the earlier editions of his Hand-book of Therapeutics, 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 pro"duced both by syphilis and by mercury.
Page 3 - In the first place, the remedy is to be tried on the healthy body without any foreign substance mixed with it ; having been examined as to its odor and taste, a small dose is to be taken and the attention directed to all effects which thereupon occur ; such as upon the pulse, the temperature, the respiration, the excretions. Having thereby adduced their obvious phenomena in health, you may pass on to experiment upon the sick body.
Page 104 - Dr. Robert Farquharson sums up the case for moderate drinking as follows : " All stimulant is unnecessary for the young and for people living perfectly healthy lives. But, under the stress and struggle of modern civilization, few of us beyond middle age are placed under normal physiological conditions, and a little alcohol helps us to round the corners, and to plane away the asperities of existence. In turns it may be a stimulant, or a sedative...
Page 366 - One volume of the liquefied phenol, containing 8 per cent, of water, forms with one volume of Glycerin a clear mixture, which is not rendered turbid by the addition of 3 volumes of water (absence of Creosote and Cresol).