Thomson's Conspectus of the British pharmacopoeias.

  • Anthony Todd Thomson
Date:
1852
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    preas Great Round-leaved Willow ; Salix Alba, the White Willow; Salix Fragilis, the Crack Willow. Dicecia Diandria. N. O. Salica- cece. Europe. T?.) Prop. Odour slightly aromatic; taste bitter and astringent. The active principle is an alkaloid named Salicina, a compound of 2 eq. carbon=1224-f 2 hydrogen=2 + l oxygen=8, equiv.=22-24. (C2 H2 O8.) (All the species are nearly the same.) Oper. Tonic, astringent. Use. In intermittents and remittents ; debilities of the intestinal canal; convalescence ; and in hectic and phthisis. Dose. 9j. to 3j. of the powder ; or f3jss. of the decoction, made with 3ij. of the bark, in Oij. water, boiled down to Oj. Incomp. Solution of isinglass, alkaline carbonates, lime water, sulphate of iron. SAMBUCUS. L. E. Sambucus Nigra. Common Elder Flowers. (Pen- tand. Trigyn. N. O. Caprifoliacece. Germany. T?.) Prop. Odour of the flowers sickly ; of the fruit the same, but weaker ; bark inodorous ; taste of the flowers bitterish ; the fruit sweetish, slightly acidulous, arising from malic acid ; the bark at first sweetish, then bitter, acrid, nauseous. Oper. Flowers diaphoretic, discutient; berries aperient, sudorific; bark purgative, hydragogue, deobstruent in small doses. Use. The flowers in fomentations, to yield their flavour to water in dis- tillation, and to form a cooling ointment ; the berries, or their ex- pressed juice, in febrile diseases, rheumatism, arthritic cases, and the exanthemata ; the bark in dropsy and haemorrhoids. Dose. Of the juice of the berries is'}, to f^ij.; of the bark gr. v. to 3ss. three times a day. Off. Prep. Unguentum Sambuci, L. Aqua Sambuci, L. E. SAPO. L. Sapo Durus, D. Hispanicus, E. Hard Soap. Made with olive oil and soda. Comp. Recent oil 60*94, soda 8-56, water 30-50, in 100 parts. Prop. Inodorous ; taste alkalescent, nauseous ; hard, white, soluble in water and in alcohol. Oper. Purgative, diuretic ; externally detergent, stimulant. Use. In habitual costiveness and jaundice, in pills, combined with rhu- barb, or some bitter extract; but it is more useful externally to bruises and sprains. We have found much advantage from rubbing the bowels of children, in mesenteric fever attended with tumid bellies, with a strong lather of soap every morning. Dose. Gr. v. to 3ss. in pills. Jncomp. Acids, earths, metallic salts, and alum ; astringent vegetables and hard water decompose solutions of soap. Off. Prep. Pilula Saponis cum Opto, L. Emplast. Saponis, L. E. Ceratum Saponis, L. Liniment. Saponis, L. Lin. Saponis Comp. E. Lin. Saponis c. Opto, D. SAPO MOLLIS. L. E. D. Soft Soap. (Prepared by boiling oil with caustic potassa.) Common soft soap, made from fish, suet, and potash, is on no account to be used instead of soap made of olive oil and potash. Prop. Consistence of hog's lard ; other properties the same as the hard. Oper. and Use. As the hard; but scarcely ever given as an internal remedy. SARZA. L. E. Sarsaparilla, D. Sarsaparilla. (Smilax Officinalis Dicecia Hexand. N. O. Smilacacece: Jamaica. T? .) Comp. A volatile oil lost in drying; smilacin, a white crystallizable substance obtained from the bark, and starch. Prop. Inodorous ; taste bitterish, feculacious ; fibrous, of a brownish colour externally, white within* Oper. Diuretic, demulcent. Use. In the sequelae of syphilis, when, after a mercurial course, noctur- nal pains, enlargements of the joints, and cutaneous ulcerations re- M
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