Catalogue of the collections / Comp. by E.M. Holmes.

  • Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. Museum
Date:
1878
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Catalogue of the collections / Comp. by E.M. Holmes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

    35/320 (page 23)
    122. Rhamnus Frangula, L. (Black Alder, Alder Buckthorn.) a. Bark. Note.—This bark has been lately brought forward in this country as an excellent purgative, free from the griping properties of Buckthorn berries. It contains a little prussic acid. The berries of E. Frangula differ from those of E. catharticus in having only three seeds, and the leaves are entire and feather-veined, not serrulate as in E. catharticus. See P. J. [1], vol. ii., p. 721, for form for decoction; [1], vol. ix., p. 537, for analysis ; [3] , vol. ii., p. 152 ; [3], vol. iv., p. 889. For micr. section, see Berg, Anat. Atlas, taf. 40. For fig. of plant, see Bentley and Trimen, Med. Plants, tab. 65. See also P. J. [3], vol. vii., p. 102. 123. Rhamnus inpectorius, L. a. Fruit. (Graines dAvignon, French Berries.) Note.—These berries are used as well as those of E. amygdalinus, to dye morocco leather yellow. 124. ZlZTPHUS Jujuba, L. a. Fruit. (Jujube Fruit.) b. Twig, with the fruit on it, preserved wet. Brought from Nimes by Mr. D. Hanbury. 125. ZlZTPHUS ORTACANTHA, D. C. a. Fruit. ANACARDIACEiE. 126. Anacardium occidentale, L. (Cashew Nut Tree.) a. Fruit. (Cashew Nuts.) See for fig. Guib. Hist, des Drog., vol. iii., p. 490. b. Peduncle and fruit, preserved wet. c. Gum. (Cadjii Gum.) Note.—The bark and pericarp of the fruit contain an acrid vesicant liquid which forms a durable marking ink. See P. J. [1], vol. v., pp. 268- 272. The gum possesses the same properties as gum arabic; but is also slightly astringent.—Bentley, Man. Bot., p. 491. Treas. Bot., p. 57. 127. Irvingia Barteri, Hook. f. a. Dika bread. b. Fat obtained from ditto. Note.—The Dika bread is used as food in the Gaboon, on the West Coast of Africa. It contains about 68 per cent, of a solid fat. This plant is placed in the Simarubacese by Bentley. See Bentley, Man. Bot., p. 474. See also Journ. de Pharm., 1857, p. 275. P. J. [2], vol. hi., p. 445. Linn. Trans., vol. xxiii., p. 167. 128. PlSTACIA LENTISCUS, Ii. a. Resin. (Mastich.) b. Do. inferior. See P. J. [2], vol. ii., p. 282. Note.—Mastic resembles in appearance Olibanum and Sandarac; from Olibanum it is distinguished by its different odour and glassy fracture, and from Sandarac by its tears not being cylindrical.