Medicines, their uses and mode of administration : including a complete conspectus of the three British pharmacopoeias, an account of all the new remedies, and appendix of formulae / by J. Moore Neligan ; with notes and additions, conforming it to the pharmacopoeia of the United States, and including all that is new or important in recent improvements by David Meredith Reese.

John Neligan

Date:: 1851

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 appendix of formulae / by J. Moore Neligan ; with notes and additions, conforming it to the pharmacopoeia of the United States, and including all that is new or important in recent improvements by David Meredith Reese. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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fused fluid by the bowels. It will also be generally found that diu- resis is more freely established after the operation of elaterium. The administration of elaterium requires the greatest caution in de- bilitated habits. D. &. M. of Adm.—T'? to ^ of a grain in pill (it should be al- ways, given at first in small doses), in combination with some tonic extract, as of gentian or chamomile. Pulvis Elaterii comp., Guy's II. (Elaterium, gr. iv. ; bitartrate of potassa, 3 v.; ginger, 3ij.; mix ; thirty grains contain one gr. of elaterium.) Dose, gr. v. to gr. x.—Tinctura Elaterii. (Elaterium, gr. viij.; rectified spirit, f^viij.; dissolve.) Dose, f3ss. to f3ij.—Solutio Elaterincc, morries Stirling. (Elaterin, gr. j.; rectified spirit, fgi.; nitric acid, min. iv.; dissolve.) Dose. min. xxx. or min. xl. In poisoning with elaterium, the same treatment should be fol- lowed <is in poisoning with gamboge. Euphorbia Lathyris. Caper spurge.—An indigenous biennial, belonging to the natural family Euphorbiacece, and to the Linnasan class and order Monaecia Monandria. It is not officinal in any of the British Pharmacopoeias, but an oil obtained from the seeds has been introduced into the Paris Codex, as a cheap and efficient sub- stitute for croton oil; it is obtained by simple pressure from the ripe seeds; it resembles castor oil in appearance, but is not quite so dense ; it has no odour, is not acrid, nor has it an unpleasant fla- vour. Calderini, an Italian physician, has used it extensively; he says that its effect is certain and prompt, and that it may be con- sidered as a mild cathartic, not producing either vomiting, colic, or tenesmus. It is adapted for all cases in which it is desirable to purge gently but effectually, and with a small dose of medicine. This oil is worthy of more observation than has been hitherto be- stowed on it. as being likely to afford us an excellent indigenous cathartic. The dose is from min. iv. to min. viij.; it may be ad- ministered in sirup. Helleborus. L. E. [and U. S. P.] Helleborus niger, radix, D. Root of Helleborus niger; Black Hellebore, or Christinas rose, D. E. Root of Helleborus officinalis. Oriental or Officinal Hellebore, L.—The black hellebore, the Melampodium of the ancients, a na- tive of the middle and southern parts of Europe, belongs to the natural family Ranunculacea:, and to the Linncean class and order Polyandria Polygynia. B. C.—Herbaceous ; leaves all radical, pedatiscct; scape leafless, one to two flowered ; flowers large, white. P. U. & M. of Prep.—The radicles ; they should be dug up in February, after the plant is done flowering, and dried quickly. P. P.—As met with in the shops, the root consists of two parts, a clack root-stock, and numerous undivided fibres or radicals which arise from it; the latter are cylindrical, about the thickness of a crow-quill, brownish-black externally, whitish within, brittle ; they have a faint, unpleasant odour, and a somewhat acrid, bitter taste, but the acridity is much lost by drying.

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