This section is from the book "The London Dispensatory", by Anthony Todd Thomson. Also available from Amazon: PDR: Physicians Desk Reference.
Acids | 60° | 212° |
Arsenious....... | 1.25 | 6 |
Benzoic......... | 0.208 | 4.17 |
Boracic........... | 2.8 | 8 |
Citric (Vauquelin) .... | 133 | 200 |
Gallic.......... | 8.3 | 66 |
Oxalic......... | 50 | 100 |
Phosphoric......... | 20 | much more. |
Tartaric........... | very soluble. | |
Salifiable Bases. | 60° | 212° |
Potassa (pure)..... | 41 | 56.5 |
Soda (pure)........ | more soluble than Potassa. | |
Baryta (crystallized) . . . | 57 | watery fusion. |
Strontia (crystallized) . . | 192 | 50 |
Lime {Dr. Dalton, at 32° 0.15; 130° 103;). . . . | 0.1287 | 0.0789 |
Magnesia (Dr. Fyfe) . . | 0.0194 | 0.00277 |
60° | 212° | |
Alum, potash (Dr. F. Thomson) . . . | 14.79 | 133 |
----soda (ditto)...... | 327.6 | |
Ammonia, acetate..... | very soluble. | |
---- carbonate........ | ||
---- bicarbonate.... | decomposed. | |
---- sesquicarbonate... | 50 | 100 |
---- hydro-chlorate..... | 33 | 100 |
---- phosphate...... | 15 | 25 |
---- sulphate.... | 50 | 100 |
Antimony (tarter emetic).... | D. 6.6 | 33 |
Barium (chloride)..... | 34 | 59 |
Baryta, acetate........ | very soluble. | |
---- chlorate........ | 25 | + |
---- nitrate...... | 8 | 25 |
Copper, acetate...... | very soluble. | |
---- sulphate...... | 25 | 50 |
Lead, acetate....... | 25 | + |
Iron, sulphate...... | 50 | 130 |
---- muriate....... | very soluble. | |
Calcium, chloride..... | 400 | + |
Lime, acetate....... | 0.2 | 0.22 |
Magnesia, acetate...... | very soluble. | |
--- carbonate....... | 0.04 | 0.0111 |
--- sulphate...... | 100 | 644 |
Mercury, bichloride..... | 5 | 33 |
Potassa, acetate....... | 100 | |
--- carbonate...... | 100 + | |
--- bicarbonate..... | 25 | decomposed. |
--- ferrocyanate....... | 33 | 100 |
---- hydrocyanate...... | very soluble. | |
---- iodate........ | 7.5 | |
---- hydroidate........ | very soluble. | |
---- sulphate........ | 6.25 | 20 |
---- bisulphate...... | 50 | 100 + |
---- bitartrate........ | 1.6 | 3.3 |
---- tartrate....... | 25 | |
Silver, nitrate....... | 100 | |
Sodium, chloride....... | 35.42 | 40 |
Soda, carbonate.... | 50 | 100+ |
---bicarbonate....... | much less. | decomposed. |
--- bi borate (borax)..... | 5 | 16.8 |
-------------------with bi-tartrate of Potassa........... | 20 | + |
---phosphate....... | 25 | 50 |
--- sulphate........ | 37 | 125 |
--- bisulphate ... | 50 | |
Zinc, sulphate..... | 40 | + |
The English Ale Gallon contains 282 cubic inches; the Wine
Gallon. 231 cubic inches.
1 lb. Dutch = 1 lb. 3 oz. 16 dwt. 7 grs. Troy. 787 1/2 lbs. Dutch = 1038 lbs. Troy.
1 kanne of water Swedish = 48088.719444 grs. Troy, in weight; and 189.9413 English cubic inches. 1 lb. Swedish = 6556 grs. Troy.
74 lbs. German Apothecaries' weight = 74 lbs. Troy. 1 oz. Nuremberg medic, weight = 7 dr. 2 dwt. 9 grs. Troy. 1 mark Cologne = 7 oz. 2 dwt. 4 grs. Troy.
 
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