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Show PRICKLY SALTWORT. PRICKLY SALTWORT. 270 Tartartzed Kart. at 3 O71 ; tives of the resinous kind, > aass it it promotess their thei operat j the same2 time; tends to correct rect their their griping gripi : wtasi quality. (Kali Tartarizatum. L.) Take of prepared kali, one pound; crystals of tartar, three pounds ; distilled water, boiling, one gallon : To the salt, dissolved in the water, throw in, gradually, the crystals of tartar powdered: filter the liquor, when cold, through paper; and, after due evaporation, by a gentle heat, set it apart Drizp Carzonate or Sopa. (Carbonas SodzSiccatum. D ) Liquefy, over the fire, crystals of carbonate of soda in a silver to crystallize. crucible, and then, increasing the heat, stir the liqnefied salt until, by the consumption of the water, it become dry. Reduce it to fine powder, and keep it in close vessels. Recs Ji é Carbonate of sod:a, » deprived dey hiv’ ofAaits water vater of crystallization, rystallizati sa very excellent remedy, for which we are indebted to Dr Beddoes: “ : he desires desires iit to be> prepared prepé by simply i exposing i the: ating it ture; but it is easily converted into the former bysatur to q the : process acess directed directe by, thethe Dublin i college, iin which ick much of The tartaric acid is capable of uniting with potashin two proportions, forming in the one instance a neutral, and in the other an acidulous salt. Thelatter is an abundant productionof na. with potash, or by depriving it of its excess of acid. It is by potash to the former method that the colleges direct tartrate of be prepared ; andthe process is so simple that it requires little comment. For the sake of ceconomy we should come as near the point of saturation as possible, but any slight deviation from it is, it will not be attended with much inconvenience. Indeed, formwhich, acid, of perhaps, advisableto leavea slight excess r remainde the leaves salt, ing a small quantity of veryinsoluble pounded crystals beforethefire; which appears to be preferable ww ic acid acid may e carbonic may be expelle be expelled. 3y Si By simple efflorescence cry- stallized carbonate of soda loses more than half its weight, and falls down n into i aa fine fine permanent per j powder. r ;sodais Whenever ee in the form of pills, the eflloresced carbonate is to be used, , as, as, when when made made of of the crvstallj; p the crystallized salt, they crack and fall rese ay ; » fe j to pieces by the actionofthe air upon them. MEDICAL USE. perfectly neutral. The evaporation must be conducted in an earthen yessel, for iron discoloursthe salt. It is easily crystal ee. complaints, as a substitute for the super-carbonated lized, and the crystals become moist in the air. aikaline waters, It has an um- water, pleasant bitter taste. It is soluble in four parts of cold in soluble also is andit water, boiling in soluble more l andstil On acids. alcohol. It is totally or partially decomposed by all or other this account it is improper.to Join it with tamarinds, praCe raneous extempo acid fruits, which is too often done in the tice of those physicians who are fond of mixing different cathartics together, and knowlittle of chemistry! It is also totally pardecomposed bylime, baryta, strontia, and magnesia, and by and a, magnesi and soda, potash, of es tially by the sulphat the muriate of ammonia. whe se pr ced giddines rere : pe ; , rther; and pensive; but its fe ede eee itis found to be not only an excellent antacid, but seems almost 4 Possess specific virtues in affections of the urinaryorgans. aeie men ppey be By in the course of the day, in feat I er, or in pills, made up with soap and some se PuosPHATEe or Sopa. (Phosphas Sode. FE.) r Take of bones burnt to w hiteness, and powdered, ten pounds ; ——— sulphuric acid, six pounds ; i He xd cane nine pounds: MEDICAL USE. this salt In doses of a scruple, half a drachm, or a drachm, y is a mild, cooling aperient: two or three drachms commonl e y purgativ strongl pretty proves ounce an and loosenthe belly, Z : for- maniaca maniacal purgative a as recommended particularly been has It and melancholic patients. Dr. Beddoes first recommended the powder of effloresced soda, It is an useful addition to the purg’ then a Bick. : sulphatic acid in an earthen vessel ; Lis rie oer or then re the vessel in 2 vapour bath mass wi ?1 igest for three days; after whichdilute the . . ith nine pounds more of boiling water, and strain the my ; : ‘ 5 t through igh aa strong linen cloth, pouring over it boiling i “hs all Water, ir Af 1 small quantities at a time, until the whole acid be Washed out Set by the strained liquor, that the impurities may liquo |