PEPS IN A. 375 



Substance resembling Sugar of Milk : Acid Tartrate of 

 Potash, known by taste, and without central cord. 



ACTION AND USES. 



Sugar of milk is less hygroscopic than ordinary sugar, and 

 is thus more suitable as a vehicle for heavy powders. It is 

 also used to sweeten preparations of milk for artificially fed 

 infants. 



Fel Boviimm Purification PURIFIED Ox 

 BILE. The purified gall of the Ox, Bos Taurus. 



Source. Prepared by agitating fresh ox bile with twice its 

 volume of rectified spirit ; separating the sediment of mucus ; 

 and evaporating the clear solution to the consistence of an 

 extract. 



Characters and tests. A yellowish-green substance, having 

 a taste partly sweet and partly bitter, soluble in water and in 

 spirit. 



Impurity. Mucus, giving a precipitate with rectified spirit 

 in watery solution. 



Composition. Purified ox bile has the composition of fresh 

 bile, less the mucus removed by the rectified spirit. 



Dose. 5 to 10 gr. 



ACTION AND USES. 



The action of bile in the duodenum is familiar, but when 

 admitted into the stomach it is apt to cause vomiting, neu- 

 tralising the gastric juice, precipitating the pepsin, and being 

 itself rendered inactive. It was introduced as a bitter and 

 cholagogue purgative, but is obviously of doubtful value. It 

 may be used as a basis for aperient pills. 



Pepsina- PEPSIN. A preparation of the mucous 

 lining of the fresh and healthy stomach of the Pig T 

 Sheep, or Calf. 



Source. Made by scraping the cleansed mucous membrane ; 

 drying the viscid pulp on a glass surface at 100 ; and pulver- 

 ising. 



Characters. A light yellowish-brown powder having a 



