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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![strong, peculiar, diffusible, very persistent odour, and a bitter aromatic taste. Chemical Properties.—Musk consists of ammonia, stearine, elaine, cholesterine, acid oil combined with ammonia, volatile oil, an undetermined acid, gelatin, albumen, fibrine, carbonaceous matter, and numerous salts, (Guibourt and Blondeau.) It yields its active principles partially to water, but more completely to alcohol. Adulterations.—Grain musk is usually adulterated ; dried bullocks' blood is employed for this purpose ; it may be detected by adding to an infusion of the suspected drug solution of corrosive sublimate, if it be genuine it will not precipitate. Spurious musk-bags are not uncom- mon in commerce, they are most easily detected by the microscopic characters of the hairs with which they are covered, as I first pointed out in the Dublin Quarterly Journal, Vol. I. n. s. p. 77. The hairs of the true musk-bag are furnished internally with distinct, regular, colour cells ; while none can be perceived in those found on the spu- rious pods. Therapeutical Fffects.—Musk is not much prescribed now in consequence of its high price, it is nevertheless a stimulating antispas- modic of great power, and is administered with excellent effect in hysteria, in chorea, and in the subsultus tendinum and hiccough of fevers and other diseases assuming a tpphoid type. In cases of hysteria of long standing, so nearly allied to epilepsy as to be scarcely distin- guishable from it, I have obtained very beneficial results from the em- ployment of musk. Dose and Mode of Administration.—In substance gr. x. to gr. xx.—Mistura Moschi, L. (Musk ; gum arabic, powdered ; and sugar, of each, 5iij- ; rose water, Oj. ; rub the musk with the sugar, then with the gum, the rose water being gradually poured in). Dose f|i. to fgij.—Tinctura Moschi, D. (Musk, in powder, 5ij- ; rectified spirit by measure ft>j. ; macerate for seven days and filter). Too weak for medical use. Dose, f3iij. to f3yj. Incompatibles.—Sulphate of iron ; nitrate of silver; corrosive sublimate ; and infusion of bark. Opopanax, D. L. Gum-resin of Opopanax chironium, L.—of Pastinaca Opopanax, D. This plant is a native of the South of Eu- rope. It belongs to the Linnaean class and order Pentandria Digynia, and to the Natural family Umbelliferce (Apiacece, Lindley). Opopanax is obtained by incisions into the root; it occurs in reddish-yellow tears, possessing a somewhat fetid but faint odour, with a bitterish ac- rid taste ; it consists chiefly of gum and resin with a small quantity of volatile oil, starch, and extractive matter. This substance is quite obsolete in medical practice ; it was formerly employed in the same cases as assafoetida and galbanum, which it resembles in its physiological properties. Ruta, [U.S.] L. E. Ruta graveolens, folia, D. Rue; Leaves,(and unripe fruit, E.) of Ruta graveolens. A native of the South of Eu- rope, cultivated in our gardens. It belongs to the Natural family Ru- tacece, and to the Linnaean class and order Decandria Monogynia. BoTiNicAL Characters.—A small branching shrub; with glaucous bluish green leaves, and yellow flowers in umbellate racemes. 3»](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21143602_0051.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
