PALAMOND. Chocolate 1 oz.; rice flour, 4 oz.; potato arrowroot, 4 oz.; red sanders, in fine powder, 1 dr. Mix. (In the above, by chocolate is meant the cacao beans roasted and pulverised without addition. Indian arrowroot, or Tous les mois, may be substituted for the potato arrowroot.)
PAPER. Syn. Charta, Papyrus, L.; Papier, Fr. The limits of this work preclude the introduction of a description of the manufacture of this well-known and most useful article, which is now almost exclusively made by machinery of an elaborate and most ingenious description. We must, therefore, content ourselves with a short notice of a few of the preparations of the manufactured article. (See below.)
Good white paper should be perfectly devoid of odour, and when burnt it should leave a mere nominal amount of ash; digested in hot water, the liquid should be neutral to test paper, and not affected by sulphuretted hydrogen or the alkaline sulphurets, or by tincture of iodine. Coloured papers should not contain any deleterious matter.
Paper, Antirheumatic. Syn. Charta antirheumatica. (M. Berg.) Euphorbium 30 parts; cantharides, 15 parts; alcohol, 150 parts. Digest eight days, filter, and add resin, 60 parts; and turpentine, 50 parts. Thin paper is to be brushed over two or three times with this varnish.
Paper, Atropine. Syn. Charta atropiæ. Paper is impregnated by steeping in solution of sulphate of atropia in such a manner that a
piece 1⁄5th of an inch square shall contain 1⁄250th of a grain of the salt; a square of 1⁄10th of an inch the 1⁄1000th of a grain. This square inserted between the eyelid will dilate the pupil.
Paper, Atropine, Gelatinised. Tablets of gelatin are impregnated with sulphate of atropia, as above.
Paper, Anti-asthmatic. (P. Codex). Syn. Charta fumifera, L. Carton anti-asthmatique, Fr. Unsized grey filtering paper, 12 oz.; nitre, 6 oz.; belladonna, stramonium, digitalis, lobelia inflata, phellandrium, all in powder, 1⁄2 oz. of each; myrrh and olibanum, in powder, 1 oz. each. Tear the paper in pieces and soak it in water till quite soft; drain off the greater part of the water, and beat it into a paste; incorporate with it the powders previously mixed. Then put into tinned iron moulds, and dry by a stove.
Paper, Blistering. See Vesicants.
Paper, Cloth. This is prepared by covering gauze, calico, canvas, &c., with a surface of paper pulp in a ‘Foudrinier machine,’ and then finishing the compound sheet in a nearly similar manner to that adopted for ordinary paper.