This section is from the book "Materia Medica: Pharmacology: Therapeutics Prescription Writing For Students and Practitioners", by Walter A. Bastedo. Also available from Amazon: Materia Medica: Pharmacology: Therapeutics: Prescription Writing for Students and Practitioners.
Sugar is official in three forms, viz., cane-sugar (saccharum), milk-sugar (saccharum lactis) and dextrose or glucose (glucosum). A saturated solution of cane-sugar is "syrupus."
 
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