A manual of organic materia medica : being a guide to materia medica of the vegetable and animal kingdoms for the use of students, druggists, pharmacists, and physicians / by John M. Maisch.

  • John Michael Maisch
Date:
1882
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Credit: A manual of organic materia medica : being a guide to materia medica of the vegetable and animal kingdoms for the use of students, druggists, pharmacists, and physicians / by John M. Maisch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Description.—A viscid liquid, greenish or brownish- green; sp. grav. 1.02 ; neutral or faintly alkaline ; odor peculiar; taste sweetish, very bitter and nauseous; produces with sugar and strong sulphuric acid a deep red and purple color (Pettenkofer's test). Constituents.—Water about 90 per cent., solids 10 per cent., consisting of mucilage (precipitated by 2 volumes of alcohol), bilirubin (cholepyrrhin) C16H13N203, and other coloring matters, cholesterin C26HJ40 and salts, among them the sodium salts of two bitter acids, gly- cocholic (cholic) and taurocholic (choleic) acid; both acids give Pettenkofer's reaction, and, on being boiled with alkalies, yield cholic (cholalic) acid and, the former, glycocol; the latter, taurin. Derivatives.—Purified by straining, and precipita- tion by alcohol, then evaporated (fel tauri purificatum s. depuratum). Properties.—Tonic, laxative. Dose (of inspissated bile), 0.3 to 1 or even 4 grams (gr. v-xv-3j). 6. CALCAREOUS SKELETONS AND CONCRETIONS. Almost wholly soluble, with effervescence, in hydro- chloric acid. CORALLIUM.—Coral. Origin.—1. Oculina virginea, Lam.] and 2. Coral- lium rubrum, Lam. Class, Polypiphera.