Indian and colonial addendum to the British pharmacopoeia 1898 / published under the direction of the General Council of Medical Education and Registration of the United Kingdom.

  • General Medical Council.
Date:
1900
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Credit: Indian and colonial addendum to the British pharmacopoeia 1898 / published under the direction of the General Council of Medical Education and Registration of the United Kingdom. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PODOPHYLLI INDICI PESINA. Indian Podophyllum Pesin. A powdered resin prepared from Indian Podophyllum Ehizome by the process described on pages 257 and 258 of the British Pharmacopoeia 1898 for the preparation of Podo- phyllum Eesin from Podophyllum Ehizome, and possessing similar characters. Dose.—^ to 1 grain. India. Eastekn Colonies. PODOPHYLLI INDICT RHIZOMA. Indian Podophyllum Phizome. The dried rhizome and roots of Podophyllum Emodi, Walk [Flore des Serves et des Jardins de VEurope, plates 1659, 1660.] Characters.—The Ehizome is horizontal, more or less cylindrical, and contorted. It is from a quarter to a third of an inch (six to eight millimetres) in thickness, crowded abov.e with tuberosities, marked by depressed oval or circular scars, and giving off numerous simple rootlets from the whole of the under sm’face. The terminal bud is enclosed in whitish papery sheaths. The colour is earthy-brown. The fracture is white, short, and mealy, or yellow and horny, exhibiting a circular arrangement of yellow vascular bundles, and bounded on the outside by a thin brown cortical layer. It has a very faint odour and a bitter acrid taste. India. Easteen Colonies. PULVIS BUTE^ SEMINUM. Powder of Butea Seeds. Soak Butea Seeds in Water ; carefully remove the inte- guments ; then dry the kernels and reduce them to powder. Dose.—10 to 20 grains.