Pharmacology and therapeutics for students and practitioners of medicine

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J. B. Lippincott, 1912 - 429 pages
 

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Page 386 - Carrageen, being demulcent and nutritious, is employed as an article of diet in those cases requiring food of such character, and may be used instead of arrow-root. It is to be prepared by first soaking for ten minutes in cold water, and then boiling from half an ounce to an ounce of it (according to the desired consistency) in a pint and a half of water down to a pint, sweetening and flavoring to taste. Milk may be substituted for water.
Page 306 - This corm is solid and •fleshy, an inch and a half to two and a half inches in length, with a longitudinal groove, having a naillike process (the bulblet) at its base. In the shops it is very commonly kept in transverse slices, which are notched and cordate ; the taste is bitter, hot, and acrid.
Page 258 - The low diffusibility of the salt impedes the absorption of the secreted fluid. 4. Between stimulated secretion on the one hand, and impeded absorption on the other, there is an accumulation of fluid in the canal. 5. The accumulated fluid, partly from ordinary dynamical laws, partly from a gentle stimulation of the peristaltic movements excited by distension, reaches the rectum and produces purgation.
Page 28 - The salt should be kept in a well-stoppered bottle. Properties. — Potassium acetate is a snowy, glistening mass of crystalline powder, which is neutral in reaction or only weakly alkaline; it must not be acid ; it has a pungent saline taste. It is soluble in less than its own weight of water at medium temperatures, and in three to four parts of alcohol. Heated to about 280° C. (536° F.) it melts, and at 360° C. (710° F.) it is decomposed, with the production of acetic acid and potassium carbonate....
Page 251 - ... weight, in order to facilitate transportation to remote encampments. The majority of the dishes found, thus far, are oblong, and reasonably symmetrical, considering the tools with which they were wrought. Nearly all are supplied with handles at the ends, which are nothing more than ear-like projections, from three-fourths of an inch to an inch and a half in length. In one or two instances I have found a dish with one ear at the top, and the other at the bottom of the opposite end. Why...
Page 101 - ... is very inflammable, as is also its vapor, which is two and a half times heavier than air. It is freely soluble in alcohol, and is itself a powerful solvent. Its odor is strong and peculiar; its taste is hot. Its specific gravity, when pure, is 0.713, and its boiling point 95° F. Ether of the US Pharmacopoeia contains ninety-six per cent, of ethyl oxide, and should boil "when a test-tube, containing some broken glass and half filled with it, is held for some time closely grasped in the hand.
Page 52 - In typhoid or enteric femr it without doubt acts as a local stimulant to the ulcerated bowel, besides influencing the general condition of the system. There are two conditions or stages in the diseases named in which it is especially useful, — indeed, is of incalculable service. About the end of the second week the tongue sometimes becomes very dry, red, chapped, perhaps coated in the centre with a brownish fur, and at the same time marked meteorism develops. Ten drops of turpentine every two hours...
Page 338 - It occurs in slender, prismatic crystals of a dark-purple color, inodorous, of a sweetish, disagreeable taste, and very soluble in water, with which they form a solution varying from a purplish black to a beautiful reddish lilac, according to the strength. When kept dry and not exposed to the atmosphere, the...
Page 114 - Place the index fingers of each hand upon the corresponding cornua of the hyoid bone, while the middle fingers rest upon the angle of the jaw, and then press forward and upward, the same force serving to extend the head upon the neck; if this fail to open the glottis, by means of a tenaculum, thrust far back into the base of the tongue, draw it forward.
Page 315 - In 1638, the Countess of Cinchon, wife of the viceroy of Peru was cured by the bark and sent a quantity of the remedy to Europe where it was employed under the various names of "countess bark, " " Peruvian bark,

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