ARSENI TRIOXIDUM. BELLADONNA FOLIA BELLADONNA RADIX. 17 



Properties: 



Appearance 

 Color ... 



Odor 



Do not taste 



Solubility : 

 H 2 



C 2 H 5 OH 



C 8 H 8 (OH) 3 _ 



HC1 



What is the Marsh test for the identification of Arsenic? 



Incompatibilities: To Arsenous Acid, T. S., add 



FeCl3 ' T - S ' ' - AgN0 3 , T. S 



KI T S 



Ac. Tannic 



MgSO 4) T. S. 



o 



The principal utility of Arsenous Acid is for chorea. Dose, 0.0006 Gm. An un- 

 official salt, arsenobenzol or salvarsan, containing about 35% arsenic, is extensively 

 used in the treatment of syphilis, relapsing fever, and frambesia or yaws. The dose is 

 about 0.4 Gm., intramuscularly. 



Official preparations made from White Arsenic : 



Liquor Acidi Arsenosi. Dose, 0.2 mil. 



Liquor Potassii Arsenitis (Fowler's Solution). Dose, 0.2 mil. 



Other official preparations of Arsenic are: Sodii Arsenas; dose, 0.005 Gm. 

 Sodii Arsenas Exsiccatus; dose; 0.003 Gm. Liquor Sodii Arsenatis; dose, 0.2 mil. 

 Arseni lodidum; dose, 0.005 Gm. This last salt combines the action of Arsenic and 

 Iodine. The others have the characteristic action of Arsenic. 



BALSAMUM PERUVIANUM. 



Balsam of Peru is an exudate from the bruised trunk of ToluiferaPereiroe (Fam. 

 Leguminosce), a tree of Central America. 



Properties: 



Appearance 

 Color ... 



Odor 

 Taste 



Solubility : 

 H 2 O ..... 



C 2 H 5 OH 



CHC1 3 



Balsam of Peru is used chiefly as a stimulant to granulations. 



BELLADONN/E FOLIA BELLADONNA RADIX. 



In use in medicine are a number of preparations made from the leaves and roots 

 of Atropa Belladonna (Fam. Solanacece), a bushy perennial, native of Eurasia, but 

 cultivated in northern temperate zones generally. The leaves yield about 0.3% of 

 mydriatic alkaloids, and the root yields about 0.45%. 



