198  Formulas  of  the  Military  Hospitals.    {An^r°cuEr-  f^g" 
SELECTED  FORMULAS  OF  THE  MILITARY  HOSPITALS 
FROM  THE  CHEMIST  AND  DRUGGIST  DIARY. 
ACRIFLAVINE  PASTES. 
Devised  as  a  wound-dressing  by  Colonel  C.  J.  Bond,  F.R.C.S. 
The  suppurating  wounds  are  packed  with  acriflavine  paste  after 
preliminary  surgical  sterilization  and  drainage. 
The  following  are  the  different  kinds  of  acriflavine  paste : 
1.  Acriflavine  soap  paste  is  made  by  neutralizing  stearic  acid 
with  sodium  carbonate  in  the  proportion  of  1  part  of  sodium  car- 
bonate to  1 34  parts  of  stearic,  acid  with  the  addition  of  0.1  per  cent, 
of  acriflavine.  The  soapy  compound  so  prepared  is  canary  yellow 
in  color  and  firm  in  consistence. 
2.  Acriflavine  gelatin  is  made  by  heating  French  gelatin  in  water 
with  the  addition  of  acriflavine  0.1  per  cent.  The  consistence  of 
the  jelly  is  determined  by  the  amount  of  water  added. 
3.  Acriflavine  starch  mucilage  is  made  by  adding  boiling  water 
to  starch  with  the  addition  of  0.1  per  cent,  of  acriflavine;  1  part  of 
starch  to  10  of  water  forms  when  cold  a  thick  mucilage. 
It  is  stated  that  the  soap  form  (No.  1)  is  most  used  at  present. 
— British  Medical  Journal. 
Alderson's  Glycerin  and  Ichthyol. 
Used  in  place  of  boric  fomentations. 
Ichthyol    10  parts 
Glycerin    90  parts 
Ambrine  Imitations. 
Dr.  Barthe  de  Sandfort,  a  French  medical  man,  first  devised  a 
method  of  treating  burns  by  coating  the  wounds  with  a  film  of 
paraffin  wax.  He  employed  "Ambrine,"  a  preparation  consisting 
chiefly  of  paraffin  wax  (m.  p.  48. 6°  C.)  with  small  amounts  of  fatty 
oil,  an  asphalt-like  body,  and  coloring-matter.  The  melted  wax  is 
sprayed  on  the  burn.  The  following  formulae  have  been  published 
of  imitations  of  ambrine : 
