22 PHARMACY 



SOLID PREPARATIONS 



1. Made by maceration or percolation. 



A. Evaporation Extracta (extracts) 



B. Precipitation Resinse (resins) 



2. Made without maceration or percolation. 



a. Eor administration by mouth in undivided portions. 



Pulverized Chartse or powders 



Semisolid masses Massse or masses 



Semisolid (sweet) Confections 



b. Individual doses. 



Globular masses Pilulse or pills 



Disk-like doses Troches 



c. By rectum Suppositories 



d. Eor external use. 

 Greasy masses used as 



Plaster Cerates 



By inunction Unguenta (ointments) 



Moist masses Cataplasma (poultices) 



Sticky masses Plasters 



Spread on or absorbed 



by paper Chartse 



UNOFFICIAL PREPARATIONS 



Tabella; — Tablets, 



Tablet — Triturates 



Tablets — Hypodermic 



Tablets — Dispensing 



Tablets — Compressed 



Tablets — Coated 

 Boli-Balls— (Sing. Bolus) 

 Haustus — Drench 

 Electuaria — Electuary 



AQUAE 



Waters are aqueous solutions of volatile substances. They differ 

 from spirits, which are alcoholic solutions, and from liquores, which 

 are aqueous solutions of non-volatile substances. There are twenty 

 official waters and a general formula for aromatic waters in the 

 Pharmacopoeia of 1910. 



They are divided into three classes according to their method of 

 preparation: 1, Simple solution. 2, Filtration through an absorb- 



