Reader please note:—
The GALENIC PREPARATIONS of the United States Pharmacopœia, when not listed under their own titles, will be found under the titles of the drugs from which they are derived.
FOODS AND DIETETIC PRODUCTS proper will be found under the title: "Foods"; while Digestants, Hematinics, etc., are listed under their own titles.
small type is employed for botanic drugs, gums, and some others of the older drugs and preparations which are so well known as to require but little description.
Those articles of which the MERCK brand is on the market, are—for convenience in prescribing—designated accordingly.
Absinthin Merck.
ABSINTHIIN—Yellow-brown, amorph. or cryst. powd.; very bitter.—Sol. in alcohol, chloroform; slightly in ether; insol. in water.—Bitter Tonic (in anorexia, constipation, chlorosis, etc.).—Dose: 11/2—4 grn.
Absinthium—U.S.P.
Wormwood.—Dose: 20—40 grn.—Infus. (1—2:64) and oil (D., 1—3 min.) used.