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The London Dispensatory, containing : 1. the Elements of Pharmacy ; 2. the botanical Description, natural History, chemical Analysis, and medicinal Properties of the Substances of the Materia Medica ; 3. the pharmaceutical Preparations and Compositions of the Pharmacopoeias of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Colleges of Physicians ; the Whole forming a Practical Synopsis of Materia Medica, Pharmacy, and Therepeutics
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Preparations or Honey.

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Acidum Acbticum Scilmticum. Edin. Vinegar of Squill.

" Take of squill root (bulb) dried, one ounce ,• distilled vine-gar, fifteen ounces ; alcohol, one ounce and a half. Macerate thesquill with the acid for seven days; then express the liquor, andadd to it the alcohol; and when the fseculencies have subsided,pour off the clear fluid."

Acetum Scimje. Dub. Vinegar of Squill.

" Take of fresh squill root (bulb) dried, half a pound; winevinegar, three pints; rectified spirit, four fluid ounces. Digestthe squill with the vinegar for four days in a glass vessel, withfrequent agitation; then express the vinegar, and, after thefasculencies have subsided, add to it the spirit."

Vinegar extracts the acrid matter of the squill, upon whichits efficacy as a remedy depends. It has long been used as anexpectorant and diuretic in chronic catarrh, humoral asthma,and dropsies. The dose is from f^fs. to f5y. given in cinnamonor mint water. In larger doses it produces vomiting; and isoccasionally used as an emetic in the above diseases, when thestomach is loaded.

When kept, the vinegar of squill deposits a precipitate,which consists of citrate of lime and tannin. 1

Officinal preparations. Oxymel Scillce.L,. Syrupus Scillae. E.

MELLITA.

Preparations of Honey.

A more correct knowledge of the operation of those medi-cinal substances which have been named balsamic or pectoral,has set aside the high opinion which formerly prevailed of theefficacy of honey as a remedy in jmlmonary diseases. It is,however, still employed in pharmacy, and has some advantagesover syrup, particularly where it is to be employed as a localapplication; but for internal purposes its use is to a certaindegree limited, owing to the unpleasant effects which it pro-duces on the bowels of some individuals. The EdinburghCollege has altogether rejected this class of preparations, but afew of them are retained by the London and Dublin Colleges.They are not apt to spoil, and therefore require less care topreserve them than the syrups.

MEL DESPUMATUM. Lond. Dub.' Clarified Honey.

■ Vogel. Annates de Chimie, vol. Ixxxiii. p. 157.

* Miel despum<S (K) Geschaumter Honig (G.) Msle Sehiumato (/.)

 
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