A manual of pharmacy / By William Thomas Brande.

  • Brande, William Thomas, 1788-1866.
Date:
1833
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    should be nutritive, but light: milk and farinaceous food, in preference to animal diet. That persons may recover, after having swallowed a very large quantity of arsenic, has been shown by Dr. Roget S to whose treatment and remarks I refer the reader. Officinal Preparation.—Liquor Arsenicalis. ASARI FOLIA—Asarabacca Leaves—the Leaves of the Asarum Europcmm^.—This plant is a native of England, flower- ing in May. The root is perennial, strong, divided, and fibrous. The leaves rise immediately from the root, growing in pairs : they are kidney-shaped, large, of a deep green, and stand on long footstalks; the flowers are dingy purple, large, bell- shaped, and placed singly upon short peduncles at the base of the footstalks; the calyx supplies the place of a corolla, and is large, bell-shaped, divided at the mouth into three or four pointed segments, which are of a brownish colour, but greenish towards the base. The filaments are twelve, about half the length of the calyx, and furnished with oblong anthers which are attached to the sides of the filaments: from the germen arises a simple style, crowned with a stigma, divided * into six radiated reflected parts; the capsule is leathery, and divided into six cells, which contain several small oblong seeds. The leaves, when dried Avith little heat, and not kept too long, retain much of their acrimony ; they enter into the composi- tion of the pulvis asari compositus, which, applied to the nos- trils after the manner of snufF, considerably augments the nasal discharge, and has been recommended in ophthalmia and head- ach, under the name of herb snuff. Emetic and cathartic effects follow the internal use of asarabacca leaves, but they are limited in medicine to the former application. Officinal Preparation.—Pulvis Asari compos. ASSAFCETIDiE GUMMI RESIN A—Assafoetida. This gum resin is obtained from the root of the Ferula assafoetida^, which, when fully grown, is of a large size, and abounds in milky juice : another species, the Ferula Persica, is also sometimes resorted to. The root of the Ferula assafoetida is perennial, tapering, and, when fully grown, of the size of a man's leg, and covered with a blackish bark. Its interior is fleshy, white, and juicy. The stem is round, smooth, and striated, rising erect to the height of nine feet, and about seven inches in circumference at the base, surrounded with six or seven radical leaves, nearly two feet long, bipinnate with alternate pinnules, smooth, sinu- » Med. Chir. Trans, ii. 136. * G. 11. Ord. 1. Dodecandria Monogynia. Nat. Ord, Sarmentacese, Linn. Aristolochia?, Jun.