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
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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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![which secrete the mucus. If the use of oil of turpentine be too long continued, it is apt to produce strangury, bloody urine, and even some- times total suppression of the secretion. The dose of oil of turpentine as a diuretic is from min. x. to min. xxx. It has occasionally proved, serviceable in dropsical effusions, but its stimulating property forbids its employment if there be any tendency to inflammatory action. It is frequently employed with much benefit in gleet, in leucorrhoea, and in chronic cystirrhcea. Under the use of oil of turpentine, the quantity of lithic acid in the urine is much increased, owing to which it frequently proves very beneficial in chronic rheumatism and in sciatica, occurring in the old and debilitated. Terebinthina chia, D. L. E. Liquid resin of Pistacia terebinihus. Chian turpentine; Scio turpentine. This tree is a native of parts of the South of Europe, of the Grecian Archipelago, and of Syria ; it be- longs to the Natural family Anacardiacece, and to the Linnaean class and order Dicecia Pentandria. Botanical Characters.—Stem, 30 to 35 feet high; Leaves, pinnate, young leaves reddish ; Flowers in compound racemes; Fruit, globular, purplish, inclosing an osseous, one-seeded nut. Preparation.—The liquid resinous exudation, which constitutes the Chian turpentine of commerce is obtained, chiefly in the island of Scio, by making incisions into the trunk of the tree, aud allowing the juice which flows out to harden on large flat stones placed under the trees; each tree yields from 8 to 10 ounces only. Physical Properties.—It is of the consistence of very thick honey, but often nearly solid ; of a pale greenish-yellow colour; has a weak terebinthinate, somewhat fragrant odour, and a slightly bitter taste. Chemical Properties.—Chian turpentine consists of volatile oil, and resin ; it resinifies by keeping, or by exposure to the air when it loses its fragrancy. This turpentine is very scarce, Strasburgh or Venice turpentine being usually substituted for it. Therapeutical Effects.—It resembles oil of turpentine, in its action on the urinary organs ; but by many it is supposed to act more effectually in checking chronic mucous discharges. Dose and Mode of Administration.—Gr. x. to gr. xxx. three or four times a day ; it may be made into pills with powdered liquorice root, or gum arabic, or it may be given in emulsion with yolk of egg or mucilage. Terebinthina Canadensis, L. [U. S.] Balsamum Canadense, D. E. Canada-balsam ; Liquid resin of Pinus balsamea, D. L.— of Abies balsamea, E. [U. S.] A native of the coldest regions of North America ; belonging to the Natural family Conifera (Pinacea, Lindley,) and to the Linnaean class and order Monvecia Monadelphia. Botanical Characters.—An elegant tree ; Stem about 40 feet high; Leaves, solitary, flat, sub-erect abovef; Cones, erect on the branches, large, nearly cylindrical, of a beautiful, deep glossy purple colour, fragant as well as the leaves. Ppeparation.—The resinous exudation improperly termed balsam is ob- tained either from little vesicles which form on the bark, or by making in- cisions quite through the bark into the wood, and collecting the juice as it exudes. 13*](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21143602_0171.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
