Diseases of the stomach and intestines : a manual of clinical therapeutics for the student and practitioner / by Dujardin-Beaumetz ; tr. from the 4th French ed. by E.P. Hurd.

  • Georges Octave Dujardin-Beaumetz
Date:
1886
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    ^ Tine. Kamala, 20 Peppermint water, . . . . . . .120 Syrup of orange, ....... 20 M To be taken m four closes, an hour apart. If the worm is not voided within two hours after the last dose, give an ounce of castor oil. Filix Mas. Male fern. The officinal part is the rhizoma of the plant, (aspidium). This plant, which is very common in South Africa, is used as food by the Kaffirs. The leaves are used for making mattresses and cushions, recommended for scrofulous, debilitated and rachitic children. The root or rhizoma is alone medicinal. It is more active when fresh than in the dried state, and contains, according to Morin, volatile oil, fixed oil, (stearine and oleine), tannin, gallic acid, acetic acid, crystallizable sugar, starch, gelatinous matter insoluble in water and alcohol, woody fibres and ashes. Peschier has noticed in the ethereal extract a colorless crystalline substance which Luck has called filicic acid; the ethereal extract contains also a fatty oil, which is saponified and furnishes filixoid acid. According to Peschier, the buds contain volatile oil, brown resin, fat- ty matters, (solid and liquid), various odorous principles and extractive matters. Male fern is given in decoction, in water or white wine: 1 to 2 ounces to the quart, to be reduced by boiling to a pint; in powder, 1 to 3 drachms in emulsion; in resinous extract, and in ethereal extract prepared with the shoots or buds exhausted by ether (Peschier of Geneva). The oleo resin of male fern (extractum filicis liquidum) of the U. S. Ph., is made by subjecting the powdered rhizoma to the action of ether in a percolater. It is an ethereal extract of the fern root, consisting mainly of oily and resinous matter, and is much used in Europe under the name of oil of male fern. The dose is 30 to 40 drops, one half to be taken at night, the other half in the morning, and followed at the interval of an hour by an ounce and a half of castor oil (Mayer of Geneva.) Trousseau's method of administration was as follows: milk diet the first day; the second day, in the morning fasting, a drachm of oil of male fern in four doses a quarter of an hour apart; the third day, a fluid drachm of the oil in four doses a quarter of an hour apart, then two ounces of syrup of ether, and half an hour afterwards three drops of croton oil in the white linctus [or in castor oil. ] Limousin's capsules contain each 7^- grains of extract of male fern and one grain of calomel. The patient takes 16 of them, two at a time every 10 minutes. Vekmifuge Boluses. (Peschiek.) Take of: Ethereal extract of male fern, . . .2 decigrammes. Powdered root of male fern, ... 5 Conserve of roses, q.s. for a bolus. Dose—10 boluses at once. To be taken after a scanty gruel diet for two days. After swallowing the boluses, the patient drinks a cup of male fern tea, and two hours afterwards, he takes an ounce of castor oil. 12 It is the bark of pomegranate root which almost all authorities have recommended; Merat, Bourgeois, Davaine, Tarneau, Kanson, Cauvet.