Medicines, their uses and mode of administration : including a complete conspectus of the three British pharmacopoeias, an account of all the new remedies, and an appendix of formulae / by J. Moore Neligan.
- John Neligan
- Date:
- 1849
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Medicines, their uses and mode of administration : including a complete conspectus of the three British pharmacopoeias, an account of all the new remedies, and an appendix of formulae / by J. Moore Neligan. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Physical Properties.—A brownish-yellow powder, with an opiate odour, and a bitter, saline, slightly acrid taste. ChemicalProperties.—It is composed of one part each of pow- dered ipecacuanha and opium, and eight parts of powdered sulphate of potash. It is insoluble in water or in alcohol. u Therapeutical Effects.—One of the most powerful and most generally employed sudorifics, possessing properties which do not be- long to any of its ingredients separately. Its employment is eontrain- dicated in cases attended with irritability of the digestive organs, or where there is cerebral disturbance. It is especially adapted for the milder forms of catarrh, coryza, acute rheumatism, and general dropsy accompanied with suppressed or diminished perspiration, particularly when the urine is albuminous. Dose and Mode of Administration.—Gr. v. to gr. xx., in pill or in bolus made with conserve of roses. The surface of the body should be kept warm, and as a precaution against vomiting the patient should not be permitted to drink for some time after taking the medicine. Every ten grains of Dover's powder contain one grain each of opium and ipecacuanha.—Pilulce Ipecacuanha et Opii, E. (Compound ipe- cacuan powder, 3 parts ; conserve of red roses, 1 part; beat them into a proper mass which is to be divided into gr. iv. pills). Dose, gr. iv. to gr. viij. Mezereon, D. E. Mezereum, [U. S.] L.—Bark (of the root. L. E.) of Daphne Mezereum, [and Gnidium, U. S.] An indigenous shrub, belonging to the Natural family Thymelacea, and to the Lin- naean class and order Octandria Monogynia. Botanical Characters.—Stem, woody, branching, covered with a smooth greenish-grey cuticle; Leaves, scattered, smooth, lanceolate; Flowers, pale- rose colour, highly fragrant, appearing before the leaves, in little tufts on the naked branches; Berries, scarlet. Preparation.—Although the London and Edinburgh Colleges direct the bark of the root to be employed, as met with in the shops it appears to have been removed as well from the branches. The Dublin druggists and apothe- caries generally employ the whole root. The bark is collected in spring, being then most active, and dried with stove heat. Physical Properties.—The root is generally entire, of various lengths, sometimes branching ; externally it is covered with the bark which is of a brown colour, smooth, wrinkled ; in the centre is the white, hard, tasteless wood, between it and the outer bark the inner bark is white and cottony ; the thickness of the root varies from that of a quill to that of the little finger. The bark (cortex mezerei) is in pieces of various lengths, quilled, tough, and pliable ; it is covered with the ojive-brown, tasteless epidermis; the true bark is of a green- ish-white colour, and fibrous. It has a slight, nauseous odour, the taste is at first faint, but leaves a hot acrid impression upon the tongue and fauces ; in the fresh state the bark has a very acrid taste. Chemical Properties.—The inner bark of the mezereon contains a neutral crystalline principle which has been named daphnin, and an acrid resin, in combination with wax, sugar, colouring matter, woody fibre, &c. It yields its active principles to water and to alcohol. Adulterations.—Various similar barks and roots are either mixed with, or substituted for, mezereon; they may be distinguished by not](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21143602_0154.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
