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to twenty minims.
Tincture Hopi Camphorate, Camphorated Tincture of Opium
(Paregoric). Dose, from one-fourth to two drachms.
Pelvis Ipecacuanhae et Hopi, Powder of Ipecac and Opium (Dover's
Powder). Dose, five to ten grains.
Pelvis Ipecacuanhae et Hopi Composites, Compound Powder of
Ipecac and Opium. (Beach's Diaphoretic Powder.) Dose, three to five
grains.
Morphine Sulphas. Dose, one-tenth to one-fourth grain.
Pelvis Morphine Composites, Compound Powder of Morphine.
(Tulsa Powder.) Dose, five to ten grains.
MORPHINE.
A white or colorless crystalline body in shining prismatic crystals;
soluble in thirty-six parts of hot alcohol, and in alkalies; almost insoluble
in water. But little used in medicine. Dose, from one-eighth to one-fourth
of a grain.
The following salts of morphine are in common use:
Morphine Acetate.
A yellowish-white crystalline body, or an amorphous powder, bitter,
inodorous except a slight odor of the acetic acid; soluble in two and onehalf
parts of water. Dose, from one-twentieth to one-half of a grain.
Morphine Sulphate.
In white feathery, silky crystals, without odor; of an intensely bitter taste;
soluble in twenty-one parts of water and in seven hundred parts of
alcohol. Dose, one-tenth to one-fourth of a grain.
Morphine Hydrochlorate.
Muriate of Morphine occurs in white needle-shaped, feathery, lustrous
crystals; bitter and odorless; soluble in twenty-four parts of water and in
sixty-two parts of alcohol. Dose, from one-twentieth to one-half of a grain.
Apomorphine Hydrochlorate.
This is the product of the action of hydrochloric acid on a modified form
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