Thomson's Conspectus of the British pharmacopœias, ed. by E.L. Birkett

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Seite 249 - A SYSTEM of SURGERY, Theoretical and Practical. In Treatises by Various Authors.
Seite 103 - Let the pure crystalline morphia which separates as the liquid* cools, be collected on a paper filter, and washed with cold distilled water until the washings cease to give a precipitate with solution of nitrate of silver acidulated by nitric acid.
Seite 16 - A greyish-white powder, fusible at a low red heat, insoluble in water, but readily dissolved by hydrochloric acid. The solution, dropped into distilled water, gives a white deposit, at once changed to orange by sulphuretted hydrogen. It dissolves entirely when boiled with an excess of the acid tartrate of potassium.
Seite 245 - ... of water. 1 Centilitre = 10 „ „ 10 „ „ 1 Decilitre = 100 „ „ 100 „ 1 Litre = 1000 „ „ 1000 „ (1 kilo.) MEASURES OF LENGTH. 1 Millimetre = the thousandth part of one metre, or O'OOl metre.
Seite 154 - Pure sulphuric acid forms with it a colourless solution, which, on the addition of bichromate of potash, acquires an intensely violet hue, speedily passing through red to yellow.
Seite 42 - Dropped on white filtering paper and exposed to a heat of 212°, it leaves no translucent stain. It turns the plane of polarisation of a ray of polarised light to the right. It is not solidified by the cold produced by a mixture of hydrochloric acid and sulphate of soda.
Seite 116 - Irregularly kidney-shaped, with two flat sides, and a furrow running longitudinally along its convex margin, ending in an aperture near one end of the seed. Within the shell is a kernel, consisting of two cotyledons, weighing on an average about 46 grains, hard, white, and pulverizable, of a taste like that of the ordinary edible leguminous seeds, without bitterness, acrimony, or aromatic flavor. It yields its virtues to alcohol, and imperfectly to water.
Seite 31 - CARBO ANIMALIS. ANIMAL CHARCOAL. BONE BLACK. The residue of bones which, have been exposed to a red heat without the access of air; consists principally of charcoal, phosphate, and carbonate of lime.
Seite 89 - ... of the water with this in successive portions, let the whole be transferred to a flask and heated until it begins to boil. When cooled and filtered, let as much distilled water be added to it as will make the bulk of the solution exactly eight fluid ounces and six drachms.

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