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Related entry: Cantharidin
Cantharidin | 0.20 | | | 14 grains |
Chloroform, a sufficient quantity. | |||
Yellow Beeswax | 50.00 | | | 8 ounces |
Wool Fat | 50.00 | | | 8 ounces |
Dissolve the cantharidin in about ten times its weight of chloroform by the aid of heat, add the solution to the yellow beeswax and wool fat, previously melted together on a water-bath, and stir until the chloroform is dissipated.
The British Pharmaceutical Codex, 1911, was published by direction of the Council of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.