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

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.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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$cause inflammatory swelling of tlie parts, an erythematous scarlatinoid rash accompanied with itching, and followed by desquamation, and if applied to the neighbourhood of the eye, conjunctivitis. Both it and Goa powder stain the skin of a sunburnt brown tint, and the hair and the nails of a dark claret or purple colour, and the latter stains are difficult to remove. The linen also is stained by them. The urine sometimes resembles weak senna tea in persons using them. Use.—Goa powder has long been used by the natives of India, China, and Brazil, in parasitic skin diseases, especially Burmese ringworm. It is made into a paste with a little vinegar or water and rubbed into the affected parts. It has been used in England with success in the treatment of pity- riasis versicolor. In ?20?z-parasitic skin diseases (psoriasis, acne rosacea, and chronic eczema in circumscribed patches), chryso- phanic acid is stated to be superior to Goa powder, though it is no more a specific than any older drug. It should be applied as an ointment of gr. xx.—3ij. : §j. melted lard (B. Squire).] [ Podophylli Radix. The rhizome of Podophyllum Peltatum, May apple, is officinal, B.P., U.S. It produces abundant loose evacuations, and somewhat resembles jalap in its action. Preparations:— (1.) Resina Podophylli, B.P., U.S. Dose, gr. \—^j. (2.) Extractum Podophylli, U.S. (An alcoholic extract.) Dose, gr. v.—x.] We must here make a few additional remarks upon the action of Physostigmin on the intestine, to which theoretical allusion has been already made at page 21. In some cases of atony of this organ, and especially where there was a consi- derable fajcal accumulation in the ascending colon, extract of calabar bean, Pharm. Germ., rendered good service after drastic purgatives had completely failed (Y. Subbotin). The$