Materia medica and therapeutics : for physicians and students / by John B. Biddle.

  • John Barclay Biddle
Date:
1886
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    the field of vision, so that objects are seen as if through a yellow medium. When allowed to remain in the system, san- tonin is supposed to be converted into a substance termed xanthopsin, which is eliminated through the kidneys, produ- cing a yellow discoloration of the urine; and probably it is this transformation which gives rise to the poisonous symptoms occasionally noticed.* Hence, santonin is best administered with calomel or other purgative. Dose, gr. ss-v two or three times a day, in the form of syrup. SoDii Santoninas {Sodium Santoninate) (2NaCi5Hi904.7H20) is made by adding santonin, as long as it is dissolved, to a hot solution of caustic soda and allowing the liquid to evaporate slowly. ^ Trodiisci Sodii Santoninatis [Troches of Sodium Santoninate)] each troche contains gr. j of sodium santoninate, with sugar, tragacanth, and orange-flower water. azedarach. This is the bark of the root of Melia Azedarach, or Pride of China [Nat. Ord. Mehaceae), an Asiatic tree, cultivated ex- tensively as an ornamental tree in our southern States. It has a bitter, nauseous taste, and yields its virtues to boiling water. Its effects are said to resemble those of spigelia. The decoc- tion is the preferred form of administration (Siv to water Oij, boiled to Oj); dose for a child, f Sss every two or three hours, till it affects the stomach and bowels; or night and morning for several days. ASPIDIUM. Aspidium filix-mas, or Male Fern, and A. marginale [Nat. Ord. Filices) are plants found in both hemispheres, from Green- land to Natal, and from Japan to Peru, though not indigenous in the eastern United States. They have a perennial horizontal root, from which spring numerous annual oval, lanceolate, acute, ^ Some persons would seem to be peculiarly susceptible to the action of this drug, as the editor has seen all the poisonous effects above described, except the convulsions, produced in a M'oman 35 years of age, to whom he had administered two doses of gr. of Santonin with gr. j of Calomel, at an interval of 2 hours (H. M.)
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