The constituents of colocynth / by Frederick B. Power and Charles W. Moore.

  • Frederick Belding Power
Date:
[1910?]
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Credit: The constituents of colocynth / by Frederick B. Power and Charles W. Moore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    XII.—The Constituents of Colocynth. By Frederick Belding Power and Charles Watson Moore. Under the title of “ Colocynth ” the various national Pharmacopoeias recognise the dried, peeled fruit, or the dried pulp of the fruit, of Citrullus Colocynthis, Schrader. Although this fruit has been used medicinally for a very long period, and has been the subject of several investigations, no complete chemical examination has hitherto been made of it, and the various products described in the literature as having been obtained therefrom were either amorphous or of an indefinite nature. It was recorded, for example, many years ago by Walz (N. Jahrb. Pharm., 1858, 9, 16, 225 ; 1861, 16, 10) that colocynth contains a bitter glucoside, designated “ colocynthin,” which, although usually forming a yellow, amorphous mass, could be obtained in a crystalline state by the slow evaporation of its alcoholic solution.
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