Tartrate of Antimony and Po- 

 tassium 4 parts 



Boiling Water 60 parts 



Strong White Wine, Q. S 1 ,000 parts 



Give the ingredients of Vinum Aromaticum 



Lavender I part 



Origanum I part 



Peppermint i part 



Rosemarry I part 



Sage , I part 



Wormwood I part 



Stronger White Wine, Q. S.... 100 parts 



INCOMPATIBILITY. 



Incompatibility is divided into th ee classes, viz: 

 Theiapeutical, Chemical and Pharmaceutical 



Substances are said to be therapeutically incom- 

 patible when their action on the human system a e 

 mutually antagonistic. With thi^ class however the 

 pharmacist has very little to do. 



Chemical incompatibility is where the substances 

 b ought into contact react on each other in such a 

 way as to form one or more entirely different c.m- 

 pounds. Many prescriptions, however, which are 

 therapeutically correct would come under this head; 

 for example, lime water and calomel or sulphate of 

 zinc and acetate of lead. These are prescriptions in 

 which the chemical reaction between the ingredients 

 is understood and intended, but what the pharmacist 

 must guard against are those chemical reactions L e- 

 tween the ingredients of prescriptions which form 

 new and poisonous compounds, and have been over- 

 looked by the physician. 



Pharmaceutical incompatibility is where two or 

 more substances when mixed react on each in such 



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