The elements of therapeutics : a clinical guide to the action of medicines / by C. Binz ; tr. from the 5th German ed., and ed., with additions, in conformity with the British and American pharmacopoeias, by Edward I. Sparks.

  • Karl Binz
Date:
1877
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Credit: The elements of therapeutics : a clinical guide to the action of medicines / by C. Binz ; tr. from the 5th German ed., and ed., with additions, in conformity with the British and American pharmacopoeias, by Edward I. Sparks. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Semina et Folia Stramonii. From Datura Stramonium, one of the Solanaceas, culti- vated and growing wild in England and Germany. The leaves and seeds are both officinal. Its cliief constituent is Daturiii, a body which is identical in chemical composition with atropia. In consequence the indications for its use are very similar. The leaves have long had a great reputation as a specific in asthma and spasmodic cough. Probably their effect is here due to the same property which atropia possesses, viz., that of diminishing the irritability of the sensory branches of the vagus nerve in the lungs, or else of limiting t])e secretions from the air passages. The latter is probably the most usual action. The preparation used is generally an ordinary cigarette covered with a stramonium leaf. This plan is very uncertain in its results, but in some cases affords immediate relief. The leaves and seeds are given internally in powder, and in the form of piUs, and applied externally as compresses and ointment. Dose of the powdered leaves or seeds, gr. j.—ij. Preparations—(a) Of the seeds :— (1.) Extractum Stramonii, B.P. Dose, gr. \. (2.) Tinctura Stramonii. (1 in 8, B.P.; 1 in 7J, U.S.) Dose, lT|^x.—XX., B.P. j TTl^v.—xxx., U.S. (3.) Extractum Stramonii Seminis, U.S. (An alcoholic extract.) Dose, gr. ^—ss. (6) Of the leaves :— Extractum Stramonii Foliorum, U.S. (Stramonium leaves, alcohol.) Dose, gr. i—^j. Ungiientu7n Stramonii, U.S. (Extract of stramonium, lard ; 1 in 8.) Folia Hyoscyami. Erom Hyoscyamus K'iger (Solanace^e), growing wild in Germany and England. GMef Constituent, Hyoscyamin {^i^2z^^z) % ^ body chemically and physio-