[487]. Bates’s Aqua Camphorata.—Sulphate of copper is the base of this preparation, which was strongly recommended by Mr. Ware. The following was his recipe: ℞. Cupri Sulph. Boli Gallic, a. a. gr. xv. Camphoræ gr. iv. solve. in aq. fervent. f℥iv, dilueque cum aquæ frigidæ oiv ut fiat Collyrium.
[488]. It is said to have been introduced into this country from Ceylon. See the observations made upon the subject of the narcotics used by the Indians, page 9.
[489]. The seeds undoubtedly contain, in an eminent degree, all the properties of the plant. It was in the seeds that Brandes first discovered the Daturia.
[490]. The oriental beverage, Sherbet, from the Arabic word Sherb, to drink, so celebrated in eastern song, is a decoction of barley-meal and sugar, perfumed with roses, orange flower, violet, or citron.
[491]. Lisbon Diet Drink. Decoctum Lusitanicum.—℞. Sarsap: concis: Rad: Chinæ, āā ʒj—Nucum Jugland: Cortice Siccatarum, No. xx. Antimonii Sulphureti ℥ ij. Lapidis Pumicis pulverisat;—Aquæ distillat: lib: x.—The powdered antimony and pumice stone are to be tied in separate pieces of rag, and boiled along with the other ingredients. The use of the pumice stone is merely mechanical, to divide the antimony.
[492]. It is said that M. Royer has lately succeeded in obtaining from Digitalis its active basis; to which he has given the name of Digitalin. It was procured by digesting the plant in æther, and treating the solution with hydrated oxide of lead. It appears as a brown pasty substance, capable of slowly restoring the blue colour of reddened litmus paper; very bitter, and deliquescent. It was difficult to obtain it crystallized, but a drop of its solution in alcohol, evaporated on glass, over a lamp, when examined by the microscope, exhibited abundance of minute crystals. (Bib. Univ. xxvi. 102.) Farther experiments, however, are required to establish the truth of this statement.
[493]. See London Medical Repository, Vol. xii. No. 67.
[494]. A person of the name of Sterry, in the Borough, prepares a plaster of this description, which is sought after with great avidity. What a blessing it would be upon the community, if every nostrum were equally innocuous!
[495]. Pharmacopœia Chirurgica, p. 89.
[496]. Diachylon, a δὶα et χυλος succus, i. e. a Plaster prepared from expressed juices. It has been asserted that all the pharmaceutical names beginning with Dia, are of Arabian origin, this however is not the fact; we frequently meet with the expression in Galen, η δὶα δικτάμνου ὴ δια δυοἷν ἁριστολοχιοὶν ἠ δι, &c. &c.