Materia medica : a manual for the use of students / by Isambard Owen.

  • Owen, Isambard, Sir.
Date:
1883
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    Coccus. Vterocarpi Lignum. Pnpaver Jiliieas. Crocus. The following four are colouring ageute :— Cochineal . . . . or Red Sandal-wood . . • ,> Red Poppy . . . . ,. Saffrou ...... Red-rose petals (Eosa Gallica) are used chiefly as a colouring agent, but possess astringent properties also. The following eight are merely flavouring agents :— Orange-flower Water . . .or Cabbage-Rose . Elder flowers Raisins Mulberry-juice . Jordan Almond Liquorice Root . Hemidesmus Root The following twenty-four may Aqua Aufanfii Floris. It 'sa Ceniifolia. Sambuci Flores. TJccB. 2Iori Succns. Amygdala Dulcis. Gli/ci/vrhizcE Eadix. Semidesmi Radix. also be classed as flavouring agents, though the first possesses bitter, the rest stimulant and carminative properties, Avhich make them therapeutically useful as vehicles : Bitter Orange Peel, fresh dried Lemon Peel Caraway . Cardamoms Cinnamon Coriander Clo%-es Dill Kutmeg . Pimento . And the Essential Oils of Anise, Caraway, Cinnamon, Cloves, Coriander, Dill, . Lavender, Lemon, Nutmeg, Peppermint, Pimento, Rosemary, and Spearmint or or Aurantii Fructus. Aurantii Cortex. Limonis Cortex. Carui Fructus. Cardamomum. Cinnamomi Cortex. Coriandri Fructus. Curgopliglluin. Anethi Fructus. Ulijris-tica, Fimenta. 01. Anisi, Carui, Cinnamomi^ Cargophylli, Coriandri, Anethi, Lavandula, Limonis, MyristiccB, MentluE Piperita-, Fimentce, Funmarini, Menthce Viridis. The remaining 297 drugs are reputed to possess more or less active medi- cinal properties. THE PREPARATIONS. The preparations prescribed by the Pharmacopoiia are of thirty-two different kinds. Extracts (Bxtracta) consist either (a, /3) of the expressed juices of fresh vegetables, clarified and concentrated ; or (7, 5) of the soluble ingi-e- dients of dry drugs, separated by macerating them in various menstrua, and evaporating the strained solution to the desired consistence. o. The Extracts of Aconite, Belladonna, Hemlock, Henbane, and Lettuce are prepared from fresh plants as follows :— 1. The fresh juice, obtained by bruising in a mortar. Heated to 130 dog. F. A congulum of green colouring matter separatee, is strained ojf, and put atide. 2. The strained juice, Heated to 200 deg. F. A coagulum of albumen separates.
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