Tincture of opium made with purified opium, five grains to every dram

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Source: The new dispensatory : containing, I. The elements of pharmacy. II. The materia medica, or an account of the substances employed in medicine; with the virtues and uses of each article, so far as they are warranted by experience and observation. III. The preparations and compositions of the new London and Edinburgh pharmacopoeas; with some of the most celebrated foreign medicines; the most useful of those directed in the hospitals; sundry elegant extemporaneous forms, &c. digested in such a metho by Lewis, William, 1708-1781; Smith, Richard, 1772-1843, Provenance; Bristol Royal Infirmary. Library, Provenance; University of Bristol. Library (1799), paragraph-9255.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• Tincture of opium made with purified opium, five grains to every dram
• But it appears on evaporating the liquor, that one dram of tlie tinciure contains about three grains and a half of opium
• TiNCTURA opii AMMONiATA (tintflurc of opium ammoniated), near- Iv one grain in a dram of the liquid
• Electarium OPIATUM (opiated eleftary,) contains in every dram almoft one grain of opium
• Electarium catechu (eleftary of catechu), contains in one hun- dred and ninety three grains, one grain of opium
• PiLUL.t opii (pills of opium), or thebaic pills, in every dram ther have fix grains of purified opium ; a pill of five grains has half a oraiii of opium

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