LINIMENTUM ACONITI— Liniment of Aconite

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Source: Note-book of materia medica, pharmacology, and therapeutics/ by R.E. Scoresby-Jackson by Scoresby-Jackson, R. E. (Robert Edmund), 1835-1867; Macdonald, Angus, 1836-1886; Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (1871), paragraph-2752.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• LINIMENTUM ACONITI— Liniment of Aconite. — Take of aconite root, in coarse powder, 20 ounces; camphor, 1 ounce; rectified spirit, a sufficiency
• Moisten the aconite with some of the spirit, and macerate in a closed vessel for three days ; then transfer to a percolator, and adding more spirit percolate slotvly into a receiver containing the camphor, until the product measures one pint
• Pour upon the aconite root three gallons of the spirit, mix them ivell, and heat until ebullition commences, then cool and macerate for four days
• Chaeactees and Tests. — A white usually amorphous solid, soluble in 150 parts of cold, and 50 of hot water, and much more soluble in alcohol and in ether ; strongly alhaline to reddened litmus, neutralising acids, and precipitated from them hy the caustic alkalies, hut not by carbonate of ammonia or the bicarbonates of soda or potash

Method as extracted

1. Pour upon the aconite root three gallons of the spirit, mix them ivell, and heat until ebullition commences, then cool and macerate for four days.
2. Distil off the greater part of the spirit from the tincture, and evaporate the remainder over a tvater hath until the whole of the alcohol has been dissipated.
3. Mix the residual extract thoroughly with tioice its iveight of boiling distilled water, and ivhen it has cooled to the temperature of the atmosphere, filter through paper.
4. Reduce this to coarse powder, and macerate it in successive portions of the pure ether with frequent agitation.
5. Dissolve the dry extract in warm distilled luater acididated with the sulphuric acid ; and, when the solution is cold, precipitate it by the cautious addition of solution of ammonia, diluted with four times its hulk of distilled loater.
6. Wash the precipitate on a filter with a small quantity of cold distilled water, and dry it by slight pressure between folds of filtering paper.

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