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Show CAMPHOR CAMPHOR TREE. 392 twenty to a hundred. Half an ounce, by measure, contains about a grain of opium. Muchabuseis madeof this: recourse is had to it uponeverytrivial cold, and it is often taken without 6. Compounp Soar Liniment. situm. L. quences of opium. It is a very heating remedy. 4. Campnoratep Acetic Acip. (Acidum Aceticum Camphoratum. D. Acidum Acetosum Camphoratum. E.) Take of acetic acid, six ounces by measure; camphor, half an ounce: Reduce the camphor to powder, bytriturating it with a little alcohol ;. then dissolve it in the acid. The alcohol in this preparation is used merely to facilitate the reduction of the camphor to powder; for the strong acetous, or, as we would rather call it, the acetic acid, is capable of dissolving even a larger proportion of camphor thanis directed in the above formula. This solution is a powerful analeptic remedy. Its vapour snuffed up the nostrils, which is the only method of using it, is one of the most pungent stimuli we possess. It is so extremely volatile and corrosive, that it is difficult to preserve, except in glass phials with round glass stoppers, or in small gold boxes, such as are used for Henry’s aromatic spirit of vinegar, for which it is, in fact, an officinal substitute. 203 2 IID TREE. (Linimentum Saponis Compo- lLinimentum Saponis. D.) Take of camphor, one ounce ; a knowledge of its containing so large a proportion of opium, when a fatal habit is induced, with all the pernicious conse- 1" soap, three ounces ; spirit of rosemary, one pint: Digest the soap in the spirit of rosemary until it be dissolved, and add to it the camphor. ‘This is useful to excite action on the surface, and is used to disperse scrophulous enlargements, andto moistenflannel with, and apply it to the throat, in cases of quinsey. It is a morelasting stimulus than the camphorated spirit of wine above. 7. Tincture or Soar with Orium, rormerty ANopyNe LintMENT. (Tinctura Saponis et Opii, olim Linimentum Anodynum. E.) This is prepared in the same way, and from the same substances, as the simple tincture of svap, but with the addition, from the beginning, of Opium, one ounce. These tinctures are only used externally, and possess great efficacy in removing local pains, when rubbed on the affected part. The London and Dublin colleges have omitted the ano- dyne liniment, probably as it may be easily prepared extemporaneously, by mixing a proportion of laudanum with soap liniment. PRESCRIPTIONS. 5. Tincture oF CampHor. Campnoratep Spirit oF WINE. (Tinctura Camphore, vulgé Spiritus Vinosus Camphoratus. E. Spiritus Camphoratus. L. D.) R.. 1. Take of camphor (reduced to powder by adding a few Take of camphor, one ounce, E. D., four ounces, L. alcohol, one pound, E., two pints, L., eight ounces, conserve of orange-peel, as much as is sufficient : Makeinto a bolus, to be taken every six hours. Given in low by measure, D.: Mix them together that the camphor may bedissolved. (1t may also be made with a double, triple, &c. proportion of campher, E.) These solutions of camphor are only employed for external uses, against rheumatic pains, paralytic numbnesses, inflammations, for discussing tumours, preventing gangrenes, or restrain- ing their progress. ‘They are too pungent to be exhibited internally, and cannot be diluted with water without being totally decomposed. drops of proofspirit of wine), grains 8, antimonial powder -_ grains 3, nervous fevers. Q. 2. Take of camphor, Russian castor, musk, of each reduced to powder, grains 5; syrup of white poppy, as muchasis suflicient: Makeinto a bolus, to be taken three timesa day. This is given in the last stage of putrid fever, when hiccough comeson. R.. 3. Take of prepared kali - - = lemon juice - - = camphorated mixture = scruples 1, ounce 4}, drachms 12: |