Oleum Juniperi aethericum

Sulfur Trioxide and Oleum

Sulfur trioxide (SO3) and oleums are generally aggressive materials with complicated properties. They are widely used in the process industries. Their main feature is the violent reaction of SO3 and water that occurs in both the liquid and the vapor phase. Oleum (or fuming sulfuric acid) is a solution of sulfur trioxide in 100% sulfuric acid. Its strength is expressed as weight percentage free ...

Oleum Ricini: Its Place in Surgery

Sir,?I hope the following observation may be of some interest to your esteemed readers : Castor oil is protective and sedative while applied externally, a soothing application when dropped into the inflamed eye, a solvent for homatropine, and decidedly an excellent, mild and simple purgative, and a suitable remedy for getting lid of undigested food causing diarrhoea, a proper and favourite prep...

Beneficial roles of dietary oleum cinnamomi in alleviating intestinal injury.

Cinnamon is a traditional herb used for treatment of many human diseases. The most important chemical compounds of the essential oil are cinnamaldehyde and eugenol. Oleum cinnamomi (OCM, cinnamon oil) is increasingly used as a feed additive to animal diets. Beneficial effects of OCM in protecting tissues from inflammation and injury by endogenous and exogenous agents (such as hydrogen peroxide ...

George Baker: translator of Aparicio de Zubia's pamphlet on the "Oleum Magistrale".

The present article is concerned with identifying the Morisco healer Aparicio de Zubia as the author of a pamphlet on the "Oleum Magistrale" which, in 1566, was published at the instance of the Spanish government after Zubia's death and which, in 1574, was translated by the Elizabethan surgeon George Baker from what seems to have been a French intermediary version. I shall not presume to enter ...

BOTANY: HOTSON AND CUTTER THE ISOLATION AND CULTURE OF GYMNOSPORANGIUM JUNIPERI- VIRGININAE SCHW. UPON ARTIFICIAL MEDIA By HUGH