578  Medical  and  Pharmaceutical  Notes.    }AraA-  J°ur:  ™*rm- 
«-'/  (     August,  1921. 
A  chemist  supplied  the  following  recipe : 
Red  Oxide  of  Mercury  .  .  .   2  grains 
Atropine   j/2  grain 
Lard   .   2  drachms 
Soft  Paraffin   2  drachms 
(3) 
Atropine  Ointment   1  ounce 
Directions.  Ointment  for  Eye. 
Use  three  times  a  day. 
Selected  From  an  Article  on  Dispensing  in  the  British  and 
Colonial  Pharmacist,  March,  1921,  by  Harold  Wyatt. 
Foreign  Prescriptions,  though  not  of  daily  occurrence,  are  fre- 
quently handled  in  a  great  seaport  town  like  Liverpool,  and  present 
difficulties  mainly  due  to  the  language  in  which  they  are  written  or 
the  preparations  they  call  for: 
American. — 
Olei  olivarum    3  iij. 
Glycerini   3  v. 
Fluidi  extracti  senegse   3  iv. 
Fluidi  extracti  pruni  virginianse   3  vi. 
Fluidi  extracti  glycyrrhizse   3  iv. 
Spiritus  vini  gallici  ad  ^  iv. 
Fiat  linctus. 
This  was  dispensed  minus  the  last  ingredient,  the  owner  being 
told  to  add  this  himself,  a  thing,  as  he  said,  he  would  scarcely  have 
been  able  to  do  in  "God's  own  country,"  owing  to  his  countrymen's 
temperance  notions. 
Grammes. 
Acidi  arseniosi   25 
Strychninae  sulphatis  20 
Aloini  ,   1.25 
Pepsini  (scales)    8. 
Ferri  redacti   10. 
Quininae  bisulph.   10. 
M.  ft.  capsular  No.  100. 
