This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 edition. Excerpt: ...sufficient tenacity, and it then resembles the famous strapping-plaster of Dr. Scott, of Bromley. (Nearly same as Lond. Edin. and Dub.; Austr. Empl. Diachylon Simplex, Litharge, 1, Lard 2--Compositum with Wax and Resins; Belg. Litharge 2, Oil 4, Water 1--also with Wax and Resins; Pr. Simplex, Litharge 5, 01. Oil 9; U. S. Empl. Plumbi, Litharge 15, Oil 28, Water q. s.) Equal weights of this and Soap Plaster melted together, makes an excellent plaster for corns. LITHIA. LITHIA. LO; eq. 15. The Oxide of the alkaline metal Lithium (L; eq. 7), a silver-white, brilliant, ductile metal, having the density of 0''59, being therefore the lightest metal known. This oxide was introduced into medicinal use by Dr. Garrod. It was discovered in 1817, by Arfvedson. It is obtained from several minerals,--Petalite, Lepidolite, and Tryphilline, from the latter of which the Author has chiefly prepared it. The process is tedious and difficult, and probably on that account omitted from the British Pharmacopoeia. The Carbonate and Citrate are the only preparations employed therapeutically. (Not in other Pharmacopoeias.) LITHIjE CARBONAS. CAHBONATE OF LITHIA. LO,C02; eq. 37. In white powder or in minute crystalline grains. Solubility: in cold Water, 1 in 100. Insoluble in Alcohol. Test.--10 grains of the Salt neutralized with Sulphuric Acid and afterwards heated to redness, leave 14-86 grains of dry Sulphate of Litbia, which, when redissolved in Distilled Water, yields no'' precipitate with Oxalate of Ammonia or Solution of Lime--indicating absence of Lime. Medicinal Properties. Lithia, combined with Carbonic Acid, given in a diluted solution, as in Lithia Water, acts as a powerful diuretic, probably more so than the corresponding Salts of Potash or Soda. In...