This section is from the book "A Text-Book Of Pharmacology, Therapeutics And Materia Medica", by T. Lauder Brunton. Also available from Amazon: A text-book of pharmacology, therapeutics and materia medica.
. Soap made with olive oil and soda.
Characters. - Greyish-white, dry, inodorous; horny and pulverisable when kept in dry, warm air; easily moulded when heated; soluble in rectified spirit; not imparting an oily stain to paper. Incinerated it yields an ash which does not deliquesce.
Dose. - As an antacid, etc, 5-20 gr.
Preparations. | |
b.p. | |
Linimentum Saponis (p. 516). | Pilula Cambogiae Composita. |
Pilula Aloes Barbadensis (p. 522). | „ Rhei Composita. |
„ „ et Asafoetidae. | „ Saponis Composita (p. 523). |
,, „ Socotrinae. | „ Scillae Composita. |
U.S.P. | |
Emplastrum Saponis. | Pilulae Aloes et Asafoetidae. |
Linimentum „ (p. 517). | ,, Asafoetidae. |
„ Chloroformi. | „ Opii. |
Pilulae Aloes (p. 523). | „ Rhei. |
 
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