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Show 530 WILITE POPPY. Edin. Take of opium, one part ; prepared carbonate of lime, nine parts : Rub themtogether to a fine powder. In these powders the opiumis the active ingredient, and it is immaterial whether the phosphate or carbonateof lime be used to facilitate its mechanical division. Oprate Evecruary, COMMONLY CALLED Tuesaic Execruary. (Electuarium Opiatum, olim Electuarium Thebaicum. E.) Take of aromatic powder, six ounces ; Virginian snake-root, in fine powder, three ounces; opium, diffused in a sufficient quantity of Spanish white wine, half an ounce; syrup of ginger, one pound: Mix them, and form an electuary. Conrectron or Orrum. (Confectio Opiata. L.) Take of hard purified opium, powdered, six drachms ; long pepper, ginger, WHITE Poppy. gum arabic. 3] Lastly, dry them so as to form a mass, to bedi- vided into troches, each weighing ten grains . These directions for preparing the above troche s are so full and particular, that no further explanation is necessary : seven and a half contain about one grain of opium. These troches ae eae of.approved efficacyin tickling coughs depending on irritation of the fauces. Besides the mechanical effect of the viscid matters in involving acrid humours, or lining and defending the tender membranes, the opium no doubt must havea con. siderable effect, by more immediately dimini shing the irritability of the parts themselves. Oneof these is to be occasionally taken during the dayto allay a tickling irritation in the throat. TABLE Showing the Proportion of Opium in some Compound Medicines. Opiate confection contains one grain of opium in thirty-six grains, L, Opiate or Thebaic electuary contains in each drachm about a grain and a half of opium. FE. Electuary of catechu, or Japonic confection, contains in each caraway seeds, of each two ounces ; syrup of white poppy, boiled to the consistencé of honey, three times the weight of the whole: Mix the purified opium with the syrup heated; then add the otheringredients rubbed to powder. The action which these electuaries will produce on theliving system is abundantly apparent from the nature of their ingredients. They are combinations of aromatics with opium ; one grain of opium being containedin thirty-six of the London con- fection, and in forty-three of the Edinburghelectuary. Liquorice Trocues witOpium. (Trochisci Glycyrrhize cum Opio. E.) Take of opium, two drachms; tincture of Tolu, half an ounce; common syrup, eight ounces; extract of liquorice, softened in warm water, gum arabic, in powder, of each five ounces: Triturate the opiumwell with the tincture, then add bydegrees the syrup and extract; afterwards gradually mix in the powdered ounce about two grains and a half of opium ; for one grain of opium is contained in 193 grains. Ki. Compound electuary of catechu contains in each ounce about two grains and a half of purified opium. D. Compound powder of chalk with opium contains one grain of opium in about forty-three grains. L,. Compound powderof ipecacuana contains one grain cf opium in ten grains, L. D, Powder of ipecacuana and opium contains six grains of opium Mm each drachm, or one in ten, Ee Opiate po wder contains one grain of opium Pil in ten. L. 5 | Pills of opium contain one grain of opium in five. L. batolore or (ha ee Opiat ! s Fo esi Thebanno ic pills contain six grain ef opium in each lrachm, or five grains contain halfa grain of opium. E. Pills of storax, ‘in five gra ins of the mass, contai n one grain. of purified opium. D, : Tincture of opium or liquid landanum is made with two scruples of Opium in cach ounce of the liquid, or with five grains in each drachm ; but a drachm of the tincture appears, by evapora oe, to contain about three grains and a half of opium. E. Vincture of opinm contains, in a drachm measure, about four s'4ius and a half of purified opium. D, 2m 2 |