The British pharmacopoeia / published under the direction of the General Council of Medical Education and Registration of the United Kingdom, pursuant to the Acts XXI & XXII Victoria, cap. XC, 1858 and XXV and XXVI Victoria, cap. XCI, 1862.

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1898-
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Credit: The British pharmacopoeia / published under the direction of the General Council of Medical Education and Registration of the United Kingdom, pursuant to the Acts XXI & XXII Victoria, cap. XC, 1858 and XXV and XXVI Victoria, cap. XCI, 1862. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the younger pieces, and a rather warty appearance with a few transverse fissures and longitudinal furrows in the older pieces. On transverse section it exhibits a somewhat thick bark, enclosing a woody cylinder composed of well-defined wedge-shaped portions of xylem containing large vessels, separated from each other by evident medullary rays, which are usually fissured radially. The root is undulated, of a dark orange-brown colour, and bears well-marked transverse constrictions; the bark is easily separable from the wood, and it is often removed in some places displaying the subjacent twisted woody bundles. The odour is spicy and camphoraceous, and the taste bitter and camphoraceous. India. Eastern Colonies. ARTICLE FLOKES. Arnica Flowers. The dried flower-heads of Arnica montana, Linn. [Bentl. and Trim., Med. PI. vol. hi. plate 158]. Characters.—-The flower-heads, when fresh, are from two to two and a quarter inches (five to six centimetres) broad, depressed-roundish ; they consist of a scaly involucre in two rows, and a small, nearly flat, hairy receptacle, bearing from sixteen to twenty yellow, strap-shaped, three-toothed, cen- nerved ray-florets, and numerous yellow, five-toothed, tubular disk-florets. The achenes are slender, spindle-shaped, and crowned by a hairy pappus. Odour feeble, aromatic ; taste bitter and acrid. North American Colonies. AUKAJSTTII CORTEX INDICTJS. Indian Orange Peel. The fresh and the dried outer part of the pericarp of varieties of Citrus Aurantium grown in India and Ceylon. Characters.—Indian Orange Peel should possess the pleasant odour and aromatic bitter taste characteristic of Bitter-Orange Peel (British Pharmacopoeia 1898, pages 49
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