Thomson's Conspectus of the British pharmacopoeias.

  • Anthony Todd Thomson
Date:
1852
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Credit: Thomson's Conspectus of the British pharmacopoeias. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tivum, Garlic, Hexand. Monogyn. N. E. Liliaccce. Sicily, Britain. Prop. Odour strong, offensive, and penetrating ; taste sweetish, biting, and caustic; these are dissipated by coction. Oper. Stimulant, diuretic, expectorant, emmenagogue, diaphoretic, and anthelmintic ; externally rubefacient, maturant, and repellent, Use. In cold leucophlegmatic habits, dropsy, rheumatalgia, humoral asthma, and hysteria. Intermittents have been cured by it. The juice dropped into the ear, in atonic deafness, is a very effectual remedy; and it is also beneficial in herpetic eruptions, formed with oil into an ointment. A poultice of.it over the pubis has been found useful in atony of the bladder. Dose. One to six cloves, swallowed without chewing, twice or thrice a day. Of the juice f5ss. to f3ij. mixed with sugar or syrup. In pills with soap or calomel gr. xx. to 9ij. The virtues of the genus Allium depend on an acrid principle, soluble in water, alcohol, acids, and alkalies. ALLII CEPiE BULBUS. The Bulb of the Onion. (Allium Cepa. The Onion, Hexand. Monogynia. N. O. LUiacecs. Europe. If..) Prop. Odour strong, offensive, and penetrating ; taste sweetish, pun- gent. These are dissipated by coction. Oper. Stimulant, diuretic, expectorant. Use. On account of the free phosphoric acid it contains, it is supposed to be useful in cases of calculus ; but it is chiefly used as a cataplasm in slowly suppurating tumours. ALOES, Socotrina, Barbadensis, Hepatica, L. D. E. Indica E. The Socotrine Aloe. Hexand. Monogyn. N. O. Liliaccce. Cape of Good Hope. %.) Aloe. Comp. Peculiar bitter principle, (Aloesin,) 73 per cent., colouring prin- ciple 26 per cent. Prop. Odour not unpleasant, rather fragrant; taste very bitter, not unlike- that of animal bile, and slightly aromatic: colour reddish brown with a shade of purple ; mass hard, friable, fracture conchoidal and glossy ; soluble in diluted alcohol; powder of a bright cinnamon-yellow colour. Oper. Cathartic, warm, and stimulating, emmenagogue, anthelmintic, stomachic ; hurtful in hasmorrhoids. Dose. To act as a cathartic, gr. ij. to gr. x.; as an emmenagogue, gr. j. to gr. ij. twice or thrice a day. The form of a pill is the most con- venient mode of exhibition. Off. Prep. Decoctum Aloes, E. Decoctum Aloes Compositum, L. D. Extract. Aloes, L. Extract. Aloes Aquosum, D. Extract. Aloes Bar- bad. L. Pil. Colocynthidis Comp. L. D. Tinct. Aloes, L. E. Tinct. Aloes Comp. L. Tinct. Aloes et Myrrhce, E. Tinct. Benxoini Comp. L. E. Tinct. Bhei et Aloes, E. Vinum Aloes, L. E. Pnlvis Aloes Comp. L. Pil. Aloes Comp. L. D. Pil. Aloes, E. Pil. Aloes cum Myrrha, L. E. D. Pil. Cambogice Comp. L. Pil. Aloes et Assafoetidce, E. Pil. Aloes cum Colocynthidce, E. Pil. Bhei Comp. L. E. Pil Aloes cum Sapone, L. ALOE HEPATICA; EXTRACTUM. D. Barbadoes Aloes. {Aloes perjoliata. Class and order as above. Barbadoes, Greece. %.) Aloe Barbadensis. Comp. As above, but with a larger portion of bitter principle. Prop. Odour very disagreeable, intensely bitter, and nauseous ; powder of a dull olive yellow. Oper. As above, but not so frequentlv employed. ALTHiEiE RADIX. L, E. Marsh Mallow Root. (Althaea Officinalis, Marsh Mallow, Monadelph. Polyand. N. O. Malvacece. Indigenous. %•) Prop. Inodorous ; taste sweetish, mucilaginous when chewed ; yield its mucus to water by coction. Oper. Emollient, lubricating, demulcent.
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