This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...and unctuous substance which melts easily with heat and burns sometimes without leaving any residue. Its taste is bitter; smell resembles that of cow's stale urine. It is supposed to be an exudation from bituminous rocks filled with petrified fossil deposits containing fish, or it is a mineral pitch or tar formed in ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...and unctuous substance which melts easily with heat and burns sometimes without leaving any residue. Its taste is bitter; smell resembles that of cow's stale urine. It is supposed to be an exudation from bituminous rocks filled with petrified fossil deposits containing fish, or it is a mineral pitch or tar formed in the earth from the decomposition of vegetable substances. It consists of crude paraffin or petroleum, with iron and solid bitumen. It contains an oil which when distilled is known asichthyol. Used as a paste and bhasm. To prepare silajita paste: --Macerate silajita in the juice of kadu nimado, gulavela, and ghee. To prepare silajita bhashm: --Take silajita 2o, gandhaka 2o, and haratala 1o; mix together, triturate in the juice of bijorfln, and roast. Dose--1 to 2 grs. As an alterative, tonic, aphrodisiac, anthelmintic, diuretic the bhasm is given in retention of urine, scalding due to gravel, gonorrhoea, also in cough, consumption, &c. As a tonic it is often given in ansmia, general debility, diabetes, leucorrhoea, &c. As an abortifacient it causes uterine contractions and thus promotes expulsion-of the foetus. Its suppositories are used to remove ascarides from the rectum. The paste is locally applied to relieve rheumatic pains in joints, and used as an embrocation in paralysis, contusions, sprains, &c. Boral--Aluminum Boro-tartrate. A fine powder soluble in water. Used as antiseptic and astringent dusting powder in skin diseases and in sweating in armpits and for foetid feet. Borobenphenene.--A combination of boracic acid, benzoic acid and phenol. A fine liquid, very volatile, of a pleasant odour and agreeable taste. It mixes freely with water, glycerin and alcohol. Used for inhalation or as solution. Dose--15 to 6o drops. It is a saf.
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