New Practicalities in Pharmacy**Section on Practical Pharmacy and Dispensing, A. PH. A., Dallas meeting, 1936.

✍ Scribed by Sisson, O.U.

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 1936
• Weight: 142 KB
• Volume: 25
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0898-140X
• DOI: 10.1002/jps.3080251010

✦ Synopsis

Very satisfactory products were obtained when the U. S. P. ointments were prepared substituting soft hydrogenated castor oil for petrolatum or wool fat and hard hydrogenated castor oil for wax, etc. A few of the products were quite superior to the official ointments.

Unguenturn Belladonnce.--Since hydrogenated castor oil is miscible with alcohol, i t is a valuable base for use when the medicament is in alcoholic solution, such as ointments containing extracts. Thus Belladonna Ointment, prepared as follows, was very satisfactory: