Manual of general medicinal technology including prescription-writing / by Edward Curtis.

  • Curtis, Edward, 1838-1912.
Date:
1895
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Credit: Manual of general medicinal technology including prescription-writing / by Edward Curtis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    do not keep well in such form, and that corrosive, bad-tasting, or bulky medicaments cannot well or wisely be so administered. But where these conditions do not obtain, the powder is a conven- ient form, since the doses can be put up in sepa- rate paper packages, easily carried about and easily administered. According to the nature of the substance the powder can be taken dry, or in solution, or stirred into molasses, honey, or pre- serve, or enclosed within a mass of some pulpy substance, such as apple-scrapings, or, more ele- gantly, for older patients, encased in the capsules or wafers sold by druggists for such purpose. A capsule is a cylindrical chamber of jujube paste or similar material, made in two pieces, whereof the one fits into the other with a telescope- joint. Capsules are of various sizes, the largest capable of holding three, four, or more grains of a dry vegetable powder, or, if moistened so as to pack closer, as much even as ten grains. The charged and closed capsule, it is needless to say, is to be swallowed bodily like a pill. Wafers are of two forms. In the one, two watch-glass shaped bodies, with the powder interposed, are joined by moistening the edges and pressing, and then the whole, rendered soft and slippery by the dipping for an instant into water, is swallowed as a bolus. In the other form the wafer is simply