Distilled preparation of Preparations and Compositions

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Source: The Edinburgh new dispensatory : containing I. The elements of pharmaceutical chemistry. II. The materia medica ... III. The pharmaceutical preparations and compositions. Including translations of the Edinburgh pharmacopoeia published in 1809 ... Illustrated and explained in the language, and according to the principles of modern chemistry ... by Duncan, Andrew, Jun., 1773-1832; University of Leeds. Library (1811), monograph-offset-1334791-1.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• Preparations and Compositions: of wine, on account of its tendency to decomposition, employ water, with a small proportion of spirits; but it certainly seems inconsistent that they should have resumed the appel- lation of Vinum, when they discard the wine from a pre- paration, which they called Liquor, when it contained wine

Method as extracted

1. Distill according to the source passage: Rectified spirit, two fluidounces. | 1 Dissolve the tartarized antimony in the boiling’ distilled wa- ter, then add the spirit to the solution filtered. - Formerty antimonial wine was a fortuitous preparation, by steeping glass of antimony in white wine; a portion of the glass of antimony was dissolved by the supertartrate of potass contained in the wine; and as the quantity of this is variable, so also the quantity of oxide of antimony dissolved varied ; and, therefore, the preparation is with propriety en- tirely rejected, since its strength could never be known. Both the officinal preparations contain two grains to an ounce of fluid; but the Edinburgh College use wine, and the London, having entirely rejected the pharmaceutical use of wine, on account of its tendency to decomposition, employ water, with a small proportion of spirits; but it certainly seems inconsistent that they should have resumed the appel- lation of Vinum, when they discard the wine from a pre- paration, which they called Liquor, when it contained wine.

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