American Journal of Pharmacy, Volume 29Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science., 1857 - Pharmacy |
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Page 241 - As nitrous oxide in its extensive operation appears capable of destroying physical pain, it may probably be used with advantage during surgical operations in which no great effusion of blood takes place...
Page 182 - A mite (Acarus eruditus) eats the paste that fastens the paper over the edges of the binding, and so loosens it. The caterpillar of another little moth takes its station in damp old books, between the leaves, and there commits great ravages. The little boring wood-beetle also attacks books, and will even bore through several volumes.
Page 84 - Leeches swarmed in incredible profusion in the streams and damp grass, and among the bushes : they got into my hair, hung on my eyelids, and crawled up my legs and down my back. I repeatedly took upwards of a hundred from my legs, where the small ones used to collect in clusters on the instep : the sores which they produced were not healed for five months afterwards, and I retain the scars to the present day.
Page 480 - Druggists' General Receipt Book. Comprising a Copious Veterinary Formulary, Recipes in Patent and Proprietary Medicines, Druggists' Nostrums, etc. ; Perfumery and Cosmetics, Beverages, Dietetic Articles and Condiments, Trade Chemicals, Scientific Processes, and an Appendix of Useful Tables, loth Edition, Revised.
Page 400 - Replace the patient on the face, raising and supporting the chest well on a folded coat or other article of dress. Turn the body very gently on the side and a little beyond, and then briskly on the face, back again; repeating these measures cautiously, efficiently, and perseveringly, about fifteen times in the minute, or once every four or five seconds, occasionally varying the side.
Page 400 - INSTRUCTIONS. — 1. Treat the patient INSTANTLY, ON THE SPOT, IN THE OPEN AIR, EXPOSING the face and chest to the BREEZE (except in severe weather).
Page 489 - that the Report of the Committee on the revision of the Pharmacopoeia be printed for the use of the members before being acted on,
Page 267 - Pepsine is strongly acid to litmus, whilst the false is only so in a slight degree ; hut, more than all, M. Boudault's preparation does what it professes to do : fifteen grains digests its drachm of dried fibrin, while the spurious compound is entirely destitute of this property. — Lancet. The most serious contamination of Pepsine is that contained in No. 3, namely, strychnia ! For what purpose this is introduced we cannot imagine ; but the circumstance of keeping such company is likely to cause...
Page 454 - These do not always consist of common hydrated oxide of iron, but also frequently of oleate of iron, which can only be removed with difficulty, and with the assistance of heat, by oxalic acid, or the binoxalate of potash; and often not at all by sulphuric or muriatic acid, for these acids can only be applied cold and very dilute, as otherwise the linen suffers.
Page 400 - I. TO CLEAR THE THROAT. 2. Place the patient gently on the face with one WRIST under the forehead ; [all fluids and the tongue itself then fall forwards, leaving the entrance into the wind-pipe FREE.] If there be breathing wait and WATCH ; if not, or if it FAIL, — II.