A Manual of Materia Medica and Pharmacology: Comprising All Organic and Inorganic Drugs which are Or Have Been Official in the United States Pharmacopoeia, Together with Important Allied Species and Useful Synthetics, Especially Designed for Students of Pharmacy and Medicine, as Well as for Druggists, Pharmacists, and Physicians |
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acrid alcohol alkalies alkaloids Allied Plants ammonia ammonia water aqueous aromatic Assay astringent atropine bark benzene bitter boiling calcium carbonate chloride chloroform color colorless contains crystalline crystals demulcent diaphoretic diluted alcohol dissolved distilled water diuretic Dose dried emetic ether evaporate extract Extractum ferric filter fixed oil flowers Fluidextract fruit gallic acid glycerin H₂O Habitat heat hydrochloric acid Impurities infusion insoluble iodide iodine juice leaves Linné liquid Macerate Manufacture metallic mucilage nitrate nitric acid odor odorless official Oleum opium oxide p. c. of pure phenol poisonous potassium hydroxide powder precipitate PREPARATIONS.-1 Preps PROPERTIES residue resin rheumatism rhizome root seeds sodium sodium carbonate soluble in alcohol soluble in water solution stamens starch stem stimulant stomach strychnine sugar sulphate sulphuric acid syrup tannin taste thick tincture tonic ulcers Unoff volatile oil water q. s. well-stoppered bottles yellow yellowish yields Сс
Popular passages
Page 935 - Fahrenheit to Centigrade, subtract 32, multiply by 5 and divide by 9. To convert Centigrade to Fahrenheit multiply by 9, divide by 5, and add 32.
Page 812 - Pharmacopoeia, defined as a colorless mixture of hydrocarbons, chiefly of the methane series, obtained by distilling off the lighter and more volatile portions from petroleum, and purifying the residue.
Page 813 - ... a mixture of solid hydrocarbons chiefly of the methane series; usually obtained by chilling and pressing the distillates from petroleum having high boiling points, and purifying the solid press cake so obtained.
Page 377 - ... yellow, longitudinally wrinkled, usually marked by a keel which is more prominent in perfectly dry roots near the crown; fracture short, wood light yellow, usually excentrically developed; odor slight, nauseating; taste sweetish, afterwards acrid.
Page 665 - The purified air-dried product of the hydrolysis of certain animal tissues, as skin, ligaments and bones, by treatment with boiling water.
Page 834 - A monobasic organic acid, prepared in a sufficiently pure condition by cooling commercial oleic acid to about 5° C. (41° F.), then separating and preserving the liquid portion.
Page 406 - An alcoholic liquid made by fermenting the juice of fresh grapes, freed from seeds, stems, and skins, and subjected to the usual cellar treatment for fining and aging.
Page 569 - ... nearly free from rootlets, occasionally branched, closely annulated with thickened, incomplete rings, and usually exhibiting transverse fissures with vertical sides, through the bark ; fracture short, the very thick, easily separable bark whitish, usually resinous, the thin, tough wood yellowish-white, without vessels; odor very slight, peculiar, the dust sternutatory ; taste bitter and nauseous, somewhat acrid. Carthagena ipecac is...
Page 265 - Mm. in diameter, or in similar bands, the bark 1 to 2 Mm. thick ; outer surface deep red-brown or dark graybrown, occasionally blackish-brown, smoothish or somewhat scaly ; inner surface yellow or pale brownish, strongly and coarsely long straight-striate ; fracture tough-fibrous ; readily splitting ; inodorous ; taste strongly astringent and bitterish.
Page 398 - CHARACTERS. — Usually in cylindrical sticks, about 3 to 5 cm. in diameter, hard and heavy, dark reddish-brown ; fracture uneven, often fissured in the centre, pale reddish-brown, showing numerous coarse fragments of seeds and their blackish-brown integuments; odor slight; taste astringent, somewhat smoky, and pleasantly bitter, then sweetish. COMPOSITION. — The chief constituents are — (1) Guaranine, identical with Caffeine (see p.