Yearbook of Pharmacy: Comprising Abstracts of Papers Relating to Pharmacy, Materia Medica and Chemistry Contributed to British and Foreign Journal...with the Transactions of the British Pharmaceutical Conference

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John Churchill & Sons, 1907 - British Pharmaceutical Conference
Includes the transactions of the British Pharmaceutical Conference at its 7th-64th annual meetings.
 

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Page 32 - Evaporate to dryness and heat at 150 to 160° C. Treat the thoroughly dried nitrates with as little (rarely over 2 cc.) of a mixture of equal parts of absolute alcohol and ether as may be needed to dissolve the calcium salt, solution being hastened by occasional gentle agitation. After standing over night in the corked flask collect the insoluble matter on the smallest possible filter and wash with more of the above mixture of alcohol and ether. After drying, pass a...
Page 554 - The Book of Receipts Containing a Veterinary Materia Medica With Prescriptions illustrating the Employment of Drugs in General Use for the Treatment of the more Common Ailments of Animals Comprising also A Pharmaceutical Formulary For the Manufacture of Proprietary Articles, Toilet Preparations, Dietetic Articles, Household Specialties, etc.
Page 214 - Tincture of digitalis is less efficient as a cardiac stimulant (that is a drug which increases the cardiac output per beat) than squill, in that it has not the same effect in increasing the energy of contraction of the heart. Moreover, it is not possible by altering the relative dosage of digitalis to produce a stimulant effect in any way comparable to that of squill. Digitalis has less peripheral effect on the vagal mechanism than squill. 6. Tincture of strophanthus being eight to...
Page 361 - They who have boldly ventured to explore Unsounded seas, and lands unknown before; Soared on the wings of science, wide and far, Measured the sun, and weighed each distant star; Pierced the dark depths of ocean and of earth, And brought uncounted wonders into birth ; Repelled the pestilence, restrained the storm, And given new beauty to the human form...
Page 555 - Illustrations. 15s. net. Materia Medica, Pharmacy, Pharmacology, and Therapeutics. By W. HALE WHITE, MD, FRCP, Physician to, and Lecturer on Medicine at, Guy's Hospital.
Page 20 - Nitrogen N Osmium Os Oxygen O Palladium Pd Phosphorus P Platinum Pt Potassium K Praseodymium Pr Radium Ra Rhodium Rh Rubidium Rb Ruthenium Ru Samarium...
Page 361 - Unsounded seas, and lands unknown before — Soared on the wings of science, wide and far, Measured the sun, and weighed each distant star — Pierced the dark depths of ocean and of earth, And brought uncounted wonders into birth — Repelled the pestilence, restrained the storm, And given new beauty to the human form — Wakened the voice of reason, and unfurled The page of truthful knowledge to the world ; They who have toiled and studied for mankind — Aroused the slumbering virtues of the mind...
Page 368 - Moisten the powder with the solution of ammonia and set aside for twenty-four hours. Transfer to a percolator and percolate with a menstruum consisting of one of absolute alcohol to seven of chloroform until 100 of percolate is obtained. The results of the alkaloid determinations by described methods prove the superiority of the "Codex" process, whether applied to aconite or belladonna root.

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