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Tully's  Powder. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
May,  1879. 
R     Morphia?  sulph.,   .  .  .  .  gr.  i 
Cretas  Praeperat, 
Rad.  glycyrrh.  pulv.,  .... 
Camphor  pulv.,  .  .  M  31 
M.  ft.  pulv. 
This  is  the  formula  adopted  by  the  Connecticut  Pharmaceutical 
Association,  any  variation  from  which  should  have  an  affix  of  improved 
or  an  attachment  of  So-and-so's  make. 
In  an  acquaintance  of  fifteen  to  twenty  years  with  Prof.  Tully  I 
never  knew  of  his  varying  from  this. 
A.  F.  Wood,  Pharmacist. 
Hinsdale,  Mass.,  April  8th,  1879. 
Editor  of  the  American  Journal  of  Pharmacy : 
Dear  Sir — The  formulae  of  "  Tully's  Powder,"  as  given  in  his 
(Tully's)  "  Materia  Medica,"  Vol.  1,  Part  2,  page  1260,  I  quote: 
"  I  then  contrived  a  substitute  for  Dover's  Powder,  in  ten  grains  of 
which  there  was  one  grain  qf  opium  and  three  grains  of  camphor,  the 
remainder  being  a  mixture  of  equal  parts  of  the  root  of  Glycyrrhiz<t 
glabra  and  prepared  soft  carbonate  of  calcium.  The  last  two  ingredients 
were  added  to  prevent  the  other  two  from  concreting  into  minute 
masses,  to  render  the  camphor  less  volatile,  to  cover  the  taste  of  the 
opium,  and  to  give  the  whole  such  a  bulk  as  would  allow  it  to  be 
divided  into  suitable  doses  for  small  children.  After  the  salts  of  the 
oxide  of  morphinum  became  sufficiently  common,  I  substituted  a  sixth 
of  a  grain  of  the  sulphate  for  the  grain  of  opium  in  this  preparation, 
which  nbw  constitutes  a  far  more  eligible  preparation  than  the  old 
Dover's  Powder."  • 
The  above  being  Prof.  Tully's  own  language,  consequently  is  autho- 
rity for  "Tully's  Powder";  any  variation  from  the  above,  of  course,  is- 
not  Tully's.    In  this  section  of  the  country  we  use  : 
U     Morphia  sulphate,  ....    part  1 
Powd.  camphor,  .... 
Powd.  liquorice  root,  .... 
English  precipitated  chalk,       .  .  of  each  parts  20 
M. 
G.  B.  Plummer. 
