Purity, activity, beauty : medicinal fluid extracts / manufactured by John Wyeth & Brother ; with doses, remedial attributes, and formulae for extemporaneous preparations.

  • John Wyeth & Brother
Date:
1892
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Credit: Purity, activity, beauty : medicinal fluid extracts / manufactured by John Wyeth & Brother ; with doses, remedial attributes, and formulae for extemporaneous preparations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    No. 320. TEA. The Leaves of Camellia Thea, or Thea Chinensis. Natural Order.—Fernstrsemiacese. Habitat.—Southeastern Asia. Cultivated. Common Name.—Tea. Active Constituents.—Volatile Oil, Theine, Boheic Acid, Tannin. The medicinal value of this well-known leaf is astringent, tonic, stimulant and nervine, and as a valuable exhilarant, taken at the morning and evening meal. It will often relieve a nervous headache, where the ordinary medicaments fail, and our Fluid Extract will be found to fully represent the qualities of a high grade of Formosa tea. Dose.—}i to i fluid drachm (1.90—3.75 c. c). PREPARATION. Infusion of Tea. Fluid Extract 1 fluid ounce ( 30. c. c.) Hot Water 15 fluid ounces (450. c. c.) Dose.—1 to 2 fluid ounces (30.—60. c. c). No. 321. TOLTT. {For making Tinctura Tolutana, U. S. P., 1880,—Balsam from Myroxylon Toluifera.) Natural Order.—Iyeguminosae, Papilionacese. Habitat.—Venezuela, New Granada. Common Name.—Balsam Tolu. Active Constituents.—Resins, Cinnamic and Benzoic Acids. (Each fluid ounce [30. c. c] represents one-half troy ounce [15.5 gms.] of the Balsam.) This preparation represents, in a concentrated form (purely alcoholic and very convenient for simple dilution with alcohol to make the officinal tincture) the well-known medicinal prop- erties of this drug as an expectorant and stimulant, and may be added to any cough-mixture to obtain the full remedial value. Dose.—5 to 15 minims (0.30—0.92 c. c), in sweetened water or dropped on sugar.