Catalogue of the collections in the Museum of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain / compiled by E.M. Holmes.

  • Holmes E. M. (Edward Morell), 1843-1930.
Date:
1878
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Credit: Catalogue of the collections in the Museum of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain / compiled by E.M. Holmes. 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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    LINAOEJB. • 110. LlNUM OATHARTictJM, L. {Purging Flax, Mountain Flax.) a. Herb. Note.—Formerly official in the Ph. E. and Ph. D., and still used in country districts as a domestic medicine. It is bitter and cathartic. 111. LiNUM TJSITATISSIMUM, L. P. J. [3], vol. i., p. 663. a. Seeds. (For micr. section, see Berg, Anat. Atlas, taf. 46.) h. Ditto, larger variety, from Calcutta, c. Ditto, wliite variety. cl. Ditto, Russian. e. Ditto, English. /. Ditto, crushed. See P. J. [3], vol. ii., p. 211. g. Linseed cake. h. Ditto, powdered. i. Linseed oil. 2^-ote._Charlock seeds, or other acrid seeds, belonging to the Cruciferse, are sometimes accidentally mixed with, linseed, and hence the meal sometimes possesses an irritating property. For composition of linseed oil, see P. J. [1], vol. iv., p. 325 ; for its purification, [1], vol. xi., p. 470 ; for adulteration of the meal, [1], vol. ii., p. 728; and [2], vol. xi., p. 686. The small seed which comes from the shore of Baltic, is to be preferred for medicinal pui-poses to the lai-ge seed which comes from India. For lig. of the plant see Bentley and Trimen, Med. Plants, tab. 39. OXALIDACBJE. 112. OXALIS ACETOSBLLA, L. a. Herb. j^ote.—It contains binoxalate of potash, and was formerly used as a refrigerant and antiscorbutic. GERANIAOE^. 113. Geranium maculatum, L. (Granesbill, Spotted Qeranium.) a. Root. {Alum root.) Jfote.—The root is official in the United States Pharmacopceia. It is a powerful astringent, free from bitterness. P. J. [2], vol. v., p. 20. For fig. of plant see Bentley and Trimen, Med. Plants, tab. 42. 114 Pelargonium species. a. Essential oil. (French Oil of Geranium.) Note.—This must not be confounded with the Turkish oil of geranium, which is obtained in India from a species of grass, the Andropogon Schoenanthus, L., or Ginger Grass. It is this, and not the French Oil of Geranium, which is used in Turkey to adulterate otto of rose. P. J. [2], vol. ix., p. 290. The French oil of geranium from Paris firms is of a greenish colour; that from Nice is colourless.