Note 277 — ON THE THEORY AND ART OF PRESCRIBING. (continued 2)
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Dr. Percival in his Essays, ingenuously exemplifies this error by stating a case which occurred in his own practice. “I ordered,” says he, “a combination of Camphor and Balsam of Copaiba in the form of pills, but the apothecary informed me that he was unable to form them into a mass, since they liquefied like treacle.” I may here observe that the addition of a small portion of the coagulated yolk of an egg, would have rendered the mixture practicable.