The American Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia Rev. & AugmentedBoericke & Tafel, 1883 - 521 pages |
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acetic alcohol added alcohol are taken allowed to stand ammonium Amount of drug barium chloride bark boiling carbonate chloride chopped and pounded Class III Class VII color colorless Common Name cool place covered with five crystals dark directed under Class dissolved distilled water dried Drug power evaporated feet high flowers Formula fresh plant heat Homeopathic Use.-The hydrochloric acid hydrogen sulphide iodide let it stand Linn liquid Materia Medica metal mixture Molecular Weight nitric acid odor one-sixth oxide petioles potassium potency poured power of tincture precipitate Preparation for Homeopathic prepared as directed prepared by trituration proven by Dr pulp and weighed pulp mixed remain eight days salt separated by decanting shaken twice silver nitrate sodium soluble solution specific gravity stand eight days stem stirred the whole straining and filtering strychnia sulphate sulphuric acid Synonyms taste triturated as directed trituration twice a day weight of alcohol well-stoppered bottle yellow zinc
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Page 21 - Then two parts by weight of alcohol are taken, and after thoroughly mixing the pulp with one-sixth part of it, the rest of the alcohol is added. After having stirred the whole, and having filled it into a well-stoppered bottle, it is allowed to stand eight days, in a dark, cool place. The tincture is then separated by decanting, straining and filtering.
Page 357 - When the solution of crude platinum, from which the greater part of that metal has been precipitated by sal-ammoniac, is neutralized by sodium carbonate, and mixed with a solution of mercuric cyanide, palladium cyanide separates as a whitish insoluble substance, which, on being washed, dried, and heated to redness, yields metallic palladium in a spongy state. The palladium may then be welded into a mass, in the same manner as platinum.
Page 453 - The fresh leaves are pounded to a fine pulp and weighed. Then two parts by weight of alcohol are taken, and after thoroughly mixing the pulp with one-sixth part of it, the rest of the alcohol is added. After...
Page 31 - Then two parts, by weight, of alcohol are taken, and, after thoroughly mixing the pulp with one-sixth part of it, the rest of the alcohol is added. After having stirred the whole well, and poured it into a well-stoppered bottle, it is allowed to stand eight days in a dark, cool place. The tincture is then separated by decanting, straining and filtering.
Page 154 - Leaves are smooth and shining above, and variegated by white veins; the lower ones deeply pinnatifed, with broad, very prickly lobes; the upper ones clasping the stem by prickly auricles, but scarcely decurrent. Flower-heads large, drooping, solitary at the ends of the branches, with purple florets. Bracts of the involucre very broad at the base, with a stiff, spreading, leafy appendage, ending in a long prickle, and bordered with prickles at its base. Hairs of the pappus simple.
Page 43 - Take of chloride of sodium, dried, forty-eight ounces (avoirdupois) ; sulphuric acid, forty-four fluid-ounces ; water, thirty-six fluid-ounces ; distilled water, fifty fluidounces. Pour the sulphuric acid slowly into thirty-two fluid-ounces of the water, and when the mixture has cooled, add...
Page 345 - Spain, growing in moist places and swamps. It is a stout, branched species, attaining three to five feet, the root-fibres forming thick, elongated tubers close to the stock; the juice, both of the stem and roots becoming yellow when exposed to the air. Leaves twice or thrice pinnate, the segments always above half an inch long, broadly crenatc or rounded, and deeply cut into three or five lobes.
Page 26 - ... the 4th potency. 1 minim of the 4th potency to 99 minims of alcohol gives the 5th potency. All following potencies are prepared with one minim of the preceding potency to ninety-nine minims of alcohol. b.
Page 51 - Reduce the pressed cake to powder, mix it with sufficient ether, to which one-sixteenth of its bulk of water has been added, to form again a soft paste, and press this as before. Mix the expressed liquids, and expose the mixture to spontaneous evaporation until, by the aid subsequently of a little heat, it has acquired the consistence of a soft extract ; then place it on earthen plates or dishes, and dry it in a hot-air chamber at a temperature not exceeding 212° F.
Page 277 - ... a pellicle forms. Set aside to cool and crystallize. Drain the crystalline mass, boil it in six ounces of the water, and strain through a funnel the throat of which is lightly obstructed by a little asbestos. Let the fluid cool and crystallize, drain the crystals, and dry them by placing them under a bell jar over a vessel containing sulphuric acid.