A Century of the United States Pharmacopoeia, 1820-1920, Oleum Chenopodii

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University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1927 - 130 pages
 

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Page 31 - ... sodium sulfite solution to raise the lower limit of the oily layer within the graduated portion of the neck of the flask.
Page 29 - Cc. of a mixture of 3 volumes of alcohol and 1 volume of water, a clear solution should result ; and if to this solution there be gradually added 2 Cc.
Page 10 - Put the substance from which the Oil is to be extracted into a retort, or other vessel suitable for distillation, and add enough water to cover it ; then distil by a regulated heat into a large refrigeratory. Separate the Distilled Oil from the water which comes over with it.
Page 29 - It should be kept in well-stoppered, amber-colored bottles, in a cool place, protected from light. A thin, colorless or yellow liquid, having a peculiar, penetrating, somewhat camphoraceous odor, and a pungent and slightly bitter taste. Specific gravity: about 0.965 to 0.985 at 25° C.
Page 23 - ... 1900, indicated that this drug might prove at least as efficacious as thymol and might indeed possess some advantages that the latter remedy lacked. Comparative tests of the two drugs — begun in 1915 under both hospital and field conditions by the Uncinariasis Commission to the Orient, and later substantiated under strictly field conditions in Brazil and elsewhere — showed that oil of chenopodium in the maximum safe dose was slightly more powerful than thymol, while at the same time it was...
Page 30 - A thin, colorless or yellow liquid, having a peculiar, penetrating, somewhat camphoraceous odor, and a pungent and slightly bitter taste. Specific gravity: about 0.965 to 0.985 at 25° C.
Page 31 - ... overnight or until the liquids are clear, and add sufficient potassium hydroxide TS to raise the lower limit of the oily layer within the graduated portion of the neck of the flask; after the...
Page 26 - Chenopodium is the volatile oil distilled with steam from the fresh, over-ground parts of the flowering and fruiting plant of Chenopodium ambrosioides Linn6 var.
Page 31 - A colorless or pale yellowish liquid, having a peculiar, disagreeable odor, and a bitter, burning taste. Tests for identity and purity — The Oil is soluble in not more than 8 volumes of 70 per cent alcohol, by volume.
Page 23 - Schiiffner and Vervoort in Sumatra, beginning in 1900, indicated that this drug might prove at least as efficacious as thymol and might indeed possess some advantages that the latter remedy lacked. Comparative tests of the two drugs — begun in 1915 under both hospital and field conditions by the Uncinariasis Commission to the Orient, and later substantiated under strictly field conditions in Brazil and elsewhere — showed that oil of chenopodium in the • maximum...

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