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.

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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    Page 187 (Diathetic Eemedies). Hemidesmi Radix, B.P. The dried root of Hemidesmus Indicus, Indian Sarsaparilla. It is supposed to possess tonic, diuretic, diapho- retic, and alterative properties, but nothing definite is known about it, and it is chiefly used as a flavouring material, because of its pleasant smell and taste. Preparation:— Syrupus JSemidesmi (Hemidesmus root, sugar, water; 1 in 8). Dose, 3j.—ij. Page 251 (Purgatives). Mori Succus, B.P., Mulberry Juice. The violet-coloured juice of the ripe fruit of Morus Nigra, Common Mulberry (Urticacese). It is said to be slightly laxative, but is scarcely used except as a colouring material in the form of Syrupus Mori (Mulberry juice pts. 20, refined sugar 32, rectified spirit 2|, evaporated to a liquid of sp. gr. 1 -330) Dose, 5j-—ij- Page 260 (Purgatives). Cassiae Pulpa, P.P., V.^.^^Cassia Fulp, obtained from the pods of Cassia fistula, and Marilandica, Purging Cassia (Leguminosse), im- ported from the East or West Indies. It forms a viscid, sweetish mass, of a brownish black colour, and is laxative ia small doses (5j.—^ij.), and purgative, with nausea and griping, in large ones (5 —ij.) It is contained in Confeetio Sennee.']