The modern treatment of diseases of the liver / by Prof. Dujardin-Beaumetz ; translated from the fifth French edition by E.P. Hurd.
- Date:
- 1888
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Credit: The modern treatment of diseases of the liver / by Prof. Dujardin-Beaumetz ; translated from the fifth French edition by E.P. Hurd. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![ments, has derived good effects from it, and Dr. Blondeau has reported a case of pseudo-membranous enteritis in which euonymin produced excellent results. The euonymus is chiefly known in the U. S. under the name of wahoo, a name given it by the Indians. The plant has also been named spindle tree and burning bush. ' It is a tall, erect shrub, with small dark-purple flowers, in cymes, in axillary peduncles. The wahoo is indigenous in the northern and western states. Euonymin in this country is obtained from the dried bark by reducing it to powder, agitating with chloroform a tincture made with dilute alcohol, separating the chloroformic solution, and allowing it to evap- orate, and by a further process of purification; the euonymin thus obtained is uncrystallizable, and intensely bitter. Dr. Geo. B. Wood speaks of it as tonic, hydragogue, cathartic, antiperiodic and cholagogue, although he regards its action as somewhat uncertain. A fluid extract is much used; dose, a dessert to a tablespoon- ful. The euonymus is a favorite with the eclectics.—[Trans.] This blackish powder with shiny particles is iridin, an oleo-resin extracted from iris versicolor. Wood and Bache mention it, and Rutherford ranks it along with euonymin among the very best chola- gogues. It has given me the same results as euony- min, and from a therapeutic view I regard it as of about equal merit. Iris versicolor (blue flag) is found in all parts of the U. S. in low wet places and on the borders of swamps, which it adorns by its large and beautiful flowers. The root is the medicinal part. Blue flag possesses cathartic, emetic, diuretic and chola- ■4 X](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21939718_0047.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
