Old Time Pharmacy Quiz

[Old Timer]

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The first person who gets all of the correct answers wins a nice piece of old but useless Pharmacy swag from my personal collection. It may take a while to dig it out of the back of my closet. Will ship anywhere in the USA at no charge.

1. What is [FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular]Elixir of Vitriol?

2. What are the ingredients in A.P.C.?
.

A. What was the name brand of this product?
B. What was the ingredient that was removed?
C. Why was it removed?
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3. What is camphorated tincture of opium?

A. Why is the camphor there?
B. Why is it dangerous to prescribe this item by the above name?
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4. What is Syrupus Pruni Virginianae?

5. When making_______________________ the formula calls for you to add the stink to the zinc.

A. What is the stink?

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Good luck to you all.

p.s. Some people actually learned about this stuff in pharmacy school.

 

[WVUPharm2007]

My God. You are old.

 

[Farmercyst]

The first person who gets all of the correct answers wins a nice piece of old but useless Pharmacy swag from my personal collection. It may take a while to dig it out of the back of my closet. Will ship anywhere in the USA at no charge.

1. What is [FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular]Elixir of Vitriol?

2. What are the ingredients in A.P.C.?
.

A. What was the name brand of this product?
B. What was the ingredient that was removed?
C. Why was it removed?
​

3. What is camphorated tincture of opium?

A. Why is the camphor there?
B. Why is it dangerous to prescribe this item by the above name?
​

4. What is Syrupus Pruni Virginianae?

5. When making_______________________ the formula calls for you to add the stink to the zinc.

A. What is the stink?

​

Good luck to you all.

p.s. Some people actually learned about this stuff in pharmacy school.

open book/web?

 

[Old Timer]

My God. You are old.

No duh......

open book/web?

Open anything...... Bonus points if you find a pharmacist old enough to know anyone of the answers except #3.

 

[Farmercyst]

Yeah, but asking SDN1977 is probably cheating.😉

 

[Old Timer]

Yeah, but asking SDN1977 is probably cheating.😉

Not probably, definitely...

But what's the fun of that....

 

[PharmDstudent]

The first person who gets all of the correct answers wins a nice piece of old but useless Pharmacy swag from my personal collection. It may take a while to dig it out of the back of my closet. Will ship anywhere in the USA at no charge.

1. What is [FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular]Elixir of Vitriol?

2. What are the ingredients in A.P.C.?
.

A. What was the name brand of this product?
B. What was the ingredient that was removed?
C. Why was it removed?
​

3. What is camphorated tincture of opium?

A. Why is the camphor there?
B. Why is it dangerous to prescribe this item by the above name?
​

4. What is Syrupus Pruni Virginianae?

5. When making_______________________ the formula calls for you to add the stink to the zinc.

A. What is the stink?

​

Good luck to you all.

p.s. Some people actually learned about this stuff in pharmacy school.

(see post with all questions answered)

 

[Old Timer]

1. [FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular]Elixir of Vitriol = "Aromatic .sulfuric acid, a mixture of six parts of sulfuric acid to fifty-nine parts alcohol, along with 20 parts tincture of ginger and one of spirit of cinnamon. Tonic, refrigerant, astringent, useful in controlling diarrhea."
p. 242
http://books.google.com/books?id=yb...ts=n8A33Rysin&sig=W2pXPPkTMywUowwiK7QsxXEhubs

First person to get ALL of them correct.....

 

[PharmDstudent]

(see post with all questions answered)

 

[PharmDstudent]

First person to get ALL of them correct.....

Don't worry, that'll be done in 15 minutes flat!

 

[PharmDstudent]

(see post with all questions answered)

 

[PharmDstudent]

(see post with all questions answered)

 

[Old Timer]

Get all of the answers and place them in one post.

Be brief, remember I'm old. I can't read all of that detail. Answer all of the questions not just the SUB parts....

I'm off to bed... Going to the lake in the morning. I'll check in by dinner tomorrow.....

 

[PharmDstudent]

Get all of the answers and place them in one post.

Be brief, remember I'm old. I can't read all of that detail. Answer all of the questions not just the SUB parts....

I'm off to bed... Going to the lake in the morning. I'll check in by dinner tomorrow.....

The freakin' zinc question is killing me. I hate riddles.
If I put all of the answers in one post, it will make it harder to read. I'll do that at the end if you absolutely must have it that way 😛.

 

[Farmercyst]

1.http://www.lewis-clark.org/content/content-article.asp?ArticleID=2565#Note5
Elixir of Vitriol -- A wide variety of recipes exist for this mixture of sulfuric acid, alcohol, and aromatics (usually ginger and cinnamon). Whatever the preparation, this elixir was prescribed as a tonic and for stomach disorders.

3 and 3b.
http://www.pharmacytimes.com/article.cfm?ID=492
Recurring Confusion Between Opium Tincture and Paregoric

Kate Kelly, PharmD, Editor, ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Community/Ambulatory Care Edition, and Allen J. Vaida, PharmD, FASHP, Executive Director, Institute for Safe Medication Practices

Problem
The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) urges pharmacies, ambulatory care centers, physician practices, and other locations to immediately take action to minimize the risk of fatal confusion between opium tincture and paregoric (camphorated tincture of opium). Paregoric has been used for many years to control diarrhea in children and adults. In many instances, however, it is dangerously referred to by its synonym, camphorated tincture of opium, which can be easily confused with opium tincture. Paregoric has just 0.4 mg/mL of morphine, whereas opium tincture contains 10 mg/mL—a 25-fold difference! This is a potentially dangerous situation that invites serious medication errors.

3a. ?? All I could find is that paregoric is used as an antidiarrheal, one source mentioned camphor for flavor, but I find that hard to believe. I couldn't find anything else on it.

4.
http://books.google.com/books?id=au...YaB&sig=UmYoP_zYzKjfGtMYQzYpKict20I#PPA310,M1

5. Zinc sulfate. Clinical relevance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinc_sulfate (?)
Though I found this and it's cool too.

http://www.angelo.edu/faculty/kboudrea/demos/zinc_sulfur/zinc_sulfur.htm

A.P.C. Too hard too find right now. I suppose I could steal the answer, but I won't. Besides I bet she wasn't entertaining a 1 and 3 year old while searching 😉

 

[Old Timer]

The freakin' zinc question is killing me. I hate riddles.
If I put all of the answers in one post, it will make it harder to read. I'll do that at the end if you absolutely must have it that way 😛.

It's not a riddle. It was a way to remember the order of adding the ingredients....

See you tomorrow....

 

[PharmDstudent]

(see post with all questions answered)

 

[PharmDstudent]

1. [FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular]Elixir of Vitriol = "Aromatic .sulfuric acid, a mixture of six parts of sulfuric acid to fifty-nine parts alcohol, along with 20 parts tincture of ginger and one of spirit of cinnamon. Tonic, refrigerant, astringent, useful in controlling diarrhea."
p. 242
http://books.google.com/books?id=ybv...wwiK7QsxXEhubs

[FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular] 2. What are the ingredients in A.P.C.?
.

A. What was the name brand of this product?
B. What was the ingredient that was removed?
C. Why was it removed?A. Paracetamol
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B. acetaminophen and phenacetin
C. phenacetin is essentially off the market as potentially harmful (causing meth-hemoglobinemia); it was the "P" in "APC" tablets
http://www.animatingapothecary.com/d4.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetaminophen

3. What is camphorated tincture of opium?
A. Why is the camphor there?
B. Why is it dangerous to prescribe this item by the above name?

A. "When opium failed, camphor was used to promote sleep."
http://carmichael.lib.virginia.edu/story/pharmacy.html

B. "Paregoric has just 0.4 mg/mL of morphine, whereas opium tincture contains 10 mg/mL—a 25-fold difference!This is a potentially dangerous situation that invites serious medication errors."
http://www.pharmacytimes.com/article.cfm?ID=492

"Do not confuse camphorated opium tincture with tincture of opium, which is 25 times more potent."
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/CDG/co...m_tincture.asp

4. What is Syrupus Pruni Virginianae?

Wild Cherry Bark, in No. 20 powder, 150 grammes; Refined Sugar, in coarse powder, 750 grammes; Glycerin, 65 millilitres; Distilled Water sufficient to produce 1000 millilitres. Moisten the Wild Cherry Bark with Distilled Water; set aside for twenty-four hours in a closed vessel; pack in a percolator; percolate with Distilled Water until four hundred and fifty millilitres have been collected; dissolve the Refined Sugar in the percolated liquid, without heat; add the Glycerin and sufficient Distilled Water to produce the required volume.
http://www.henriettesherbal.com/ecle...virg_syru.html

5. When making_______________________ the formula calls for you to add the stink to the zinc.
A. What is the stink?

When making White Vitriol, the formula calls for you to add the stink to the zinc.
A. The stink is sulfur.

 

[PharmDstudent]

A.P.C. Too hard too find right now. I suppose I could steal the answer, but I won't. Besides I bet he wasn't entertaining a 1 and 3 year old while searching 😉

Excuses, excuses. "He"? One day I will be called a "she" 😛.

 

[Farmercyst]

Now should it be put in white so you can't read it without highlighting?🙂

 

[PharmDstudent]

Now should it be put in white so you can't read it without highlighting?🙂

Just write everything in red so that he has to de-highlight the questions 😉.

 

[Farmercyst]

Excuses, excuses. "He"? One day I will be called a "she" 😛.

I forgot. Fixed it though.

 

[KARM12]

Excuses, excuses. "He"? One day I will be called a "she" 😛.

Wait...PharmDstudent is a girl?

 

[Old Timer]

I thought I would have more contestants......

No Winner yet.....

 

[PharmDstudent]

Wait...PharmDstudent is a girl?

Yes.
Picture removed to protect my privacy.

 

[PharmDstudent]

I thought I would have more contestants......

No Winner yet.....

Trick questions are not fun! Can't you just grade my quiz and give it back 😛?

 

[All4MyDaughter]

I thought I would have more contestants......

No Winner yet.....

I'd be all over this, but I've got exams this weekend. 🙁

 

[Old Timer]

These are not trick questions:

1. What is [FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular]Elixir of Vitriol?
.

Aromatic sulphuric acid​

[FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular] 2. What are the ingredients in A.P.C.?
.

Aspirin Phenacetin and Caffeine

A. What was the name brand of this product?

Empirin (OTC) and Empirin with Codeine (Rx)
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B. What was the ingredient that was removed?

Phenacetin​

C. Why was it removed?

Kidney Damage A.K.A. Analgesic Nephropathy
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3. What is camphorated tincture of opium?

Paregoric
​

A. Why is the camphor there?

To prevent drug abuse. If you take a spoonful of Tr of opium and a lighter you can evaporate the alcohol and leave the opium. If you add camphor, you cannot inject the result w/o camphor poisoning.
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B. Why is it dangerous to prescribe this item by the above name?

Easily confused with Tr. of Opium which is more concentrated and can result in an overdose of opium.
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4. What is Syrupus Pruni Virginianae?

Wild Cherry Syrup
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5. When making White Lotion the formula calls for you to add the stink to the zinc.

A. What is the stink?

Sulphurated Potash
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You can grade yourself. Just sort of a history lesson.....

You can play again next time. Maybe there will be fewer exams and more participants.....

 

[sdn1977]

You wouldn't let me play!😡

Will you allow a caveat of time &/or #s of answers before I can chime in???

I'm that little girl on the swing who isn't allowed to get in the sandbox.

Please, please, please.......let me join a team?????

 

[dginrit]

5. When making White Lotion the formula calls for you to add the stink to the zinc.

A. What is the stink?

Sulphurated Potash​

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You can grade yourself. Just sort of a history lesson.....

You can play again next time. Maybe there will be fewer exams and more participants.....

I should check this more often, thats the only question I could answer. Just made that stuff in lab and the stink stinks very much and required much pulverization

 

[sdn1977]

I just had an rx last month for Empirin #3. My tech didn't know what it was. (You know how old the prescriber was - my age!!!).

Old Timer - do you kow when the formulation was changed to ASA w/Cod?

Just a little test right back at 'ya😀.

 

[Old Timer]

You wouldn't let me play!😡

Will you allow a caveat of time &/or #s of answers before I can chime in???

I'm that little girl on the swing who isn't allowed to get in the sandbox.

Please, please, please.......let me join a team?????

I didn't say you couldn't play, I said they couldn't ask you for the answers....

 

[Old Timer]

I just had an rx last month for Empirin #3. My tech didn't know what it was. (You know how old the prescriber was - my age!!!).

Old Timer - do you kow when the formulation was changed to ASA w/Cod?

Just a little test right back at 'ya😀.

I really don't know. As far as I remember it was in the late 70's or early 80's. I know APC was huge as an OTC and Empirin #3 was smokin for acute pain. But as for an exact date, you've got to be kidding I have enough trouble remembering my own birthday....