LIST OF DRUGS, &c., MENTIONED IN THE TEXT.
Reading edition
Bicarbonate of soda.
Bismuthi salicyl., in tabuloids of grains x. each.
Book of litmus paper.
Boracic acid, in powder.
Calomel, in tabuloids of 1⁄2 grain each.
Carbolic acid, with sufficient glycerine added to keep it in a fluid condition.
Castor oil.
Castor oil with resorcin:—
℞ Ol. ricini ℥viii.
Resorcin ʒii.
Mix, and dissolve the resorcin by standing the bottle in hot water.
Citrate of potash.
Easton’s syrup, put up in a bottle marked to its dosage.
Ether sulphuric. This drug is too volatile for storage in the ordinary way in the Tropics and so should be put up in glass capsules each holding a drachm.
“Fever” or diaphoretic mixture:—
℞ Liq. ammon. acetatis fortior, B.P., 1885 ʒss.
Sp. eth. nitrosi ♏xx.
Potas. nitratis gr. i.
Water to ʒii for each dose.
Dose.—To be put up in a bottle graduated to that dosage containing 8 oz. of the mixture, and taken diluted with four or five times its quantity of water.
Goa ointment:—
Goa powder - āā ʒss.
Acid salicylic
Lanolin ad ℥i.
Gregory’s powder.
Hydrochloric acid, preferably in the dilute form.
Opium, in tabuloids of 1 grain each.
The “Patna” drug is preferable as a sedative before the administration of ipecacuanha.
Paint for “Dhobi’s itch”:—
Liquor iodi fortior - partes æquales ad ℥ii.
Pure carbolic acid
Glycerine
Perchloride of mercury, in tabuloids:—
1⁄40 grain - for internal administration.
1⁄64 grain
21⁄2 grain “soloids” for compounding an antiseptic solution.
Permanganate of potash, put up in packets of 2 oz. each, wrapped in waterproof paper, for disinfecting wells.
Phenacetin; tabuloids of grains v. each.
Phenyle, “Little’s soluble.”
Pills for hill diarrhœa and similar disturbances of the bowel:—
℞ Euonymini - āā grain i.
Pil. hydrargyri
Pulv. ipecac.
Pulv. hydrargyri cum creta, popularly known as grey powder.
Pulv. ipecacuanhæ, in tabuloids of 5 grains each.
Quinine sulphate (or hydrochloride) in powder. The cork should be fitted with a small wooden cup, to measure 5 grains approximately.
Resorcin, in tabuloids of grains v. each.
Thymol, in tabuloids of grains x. each.
Tinct. camphoræ composita, popularly known as “paregoric elixir.”