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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![from the centre of which springs an annual stem, about six feet in height, terminated by a spike of small white flowers, succeeded by numerons tri- follicled capsules. Physical Properties.—The fruit consists of three follicles, oblong, adherent at the base, about half an inch in length ; they are composed of a thin yellowish, elastic membrane, containing from one to three shining black-seeds; the seeds have little odour, but when powdered and snuffed into the nostrils, they produce violent sneezing and a dis- charge of mucus ; they have an acrid, intensely bitter taste, which is very permanent. Chemical Properties.—Cevadilla consists of fatty matter, cevadic acid, wax, veratria combined with gallic acid, yellow colouring matter and gum. Therapeutical Effects.—Although possessed of highly poison- ous properties, cevadilla has been employed internally as an anthel- mintic with much success in cases of tape-worm, and of ascarides ; its use has been hitherto almost entirely confined to the Continent, and from the numerous instances of its successful employment record- ed by different practitioners, *t appears deserving of a high character as a vermifuge. Dose and Mode of Administration.—In powder, gr. iij. for eight successive mornings fastings, followed on the ninth day by an active purge, in cases of taenia.—Enema of Cevadilla, (Cevadilla, 5ij- ; water, fgx. ; milk, f§iij. ; the cevadilla is boiled in the water, until it is re- duced to seven ounces, then filtered, and the milk added.) To be administered in cases of ascarides. Spigelia, [U. S.] L. E. Spigelia marilandica, radix, D. Carolina-pink; Root of Spigelia Marilandica. A native of the United States ; belonging to the Linnsean class and order Pentandria Monogynia, and to the Natural family Gentianacea. (Loganiacea, Lindley.) Botanical Characters.—A perennial root; sending up numerous sim- ple stems; bearing, in the month of July, rich carmine-coloured flowers, in racemes. Physical Properties.—Usually met with in bundles of the entire plant about twenty inches long, the officinal part consists of numerous, slender, yellowish-brown fibres, proceeding from a small, dark-brown rhizome. They have a faint odour, and a bland, somewhat nauseous taste. Chemical Properties.—The root consists of acrid resin, tannin, bitter extractive, and woody fibre, with a trace of fixed oil. Therapeutical Effects.—Spigelia root, in consequence of its being much more active in the recent state than when dried, bears a higher character as an anthelmintic in America than in Europe It is the most popular vermifuge in the United States for the expulsion of lumbnci, possessing, however, little or no powers over any other species of intestinal worm. Dose and Mode of Administration.—In powder, gr. x to gr xx. for children. Infusum Spigelia, U. S (Spigelia root, §ss. ; boiling](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21143602_0044.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
