A manual of pharmacy / By William Thomas Brande.

  • Brande, William Thomas, 1788-1866.
Date:
1833
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    headach, shaking of the limbs, alternate sensations of heat and cold', oppression of the chest, difficulty of breathing, and diminished force of circulation. The violence of these symp- toms ceased in half an hour. 100 parts of the plant yield, according to Brandes, Malate of atropia • • • ^'^^ Green resin • ^84 Wax 0-70 PhyteumacoUa^ 6-90 Pseudotoxin with atiopia and salts 16*05 Albumen soluble '^^ indurated 6 00 Gum 8-33 Starch 1*25 Salts of ammonia, potassa, lime, and magnesia ... 7*47 Woody fibre 13-70 Water 25-50 Loss • 2-05 100 Officinal Preparation.—Extractum BelladonncE. BENZOINUM—Benzoin—A substance obtained by inci- sions of the bark of the Sty rax benzoe^, a tall tree, native in Sumatra. It sends off many branches covered with a rough grey bark; the leaves are oblong, entire^ veined, pointed, smooth on the upper side, and downy on the under ; they stand alternately upon short footstalks, which are round, scored, and downy ; the flowers are produced in bunches, and usually hang all on the same side upon short slender pedicles; the racemi are nearly of the length of the leaves, branched, downy, and arise from the axillse of the leaves ; the calyx is short, bell-shaped, downy, and divided at the extremity into 5 obscure imperfect teeth ; the corolla is monopetalous, externally ash- coloured, downy, and cut into 5 obtuse parallel segments, growing close together; the filaments are 10, of the length of the calyx, adhering at the base, bearded towards the top, forming a circle upon the receptacle in which they are inserted, and crowned with linear erect anthers ; the germen is oval, downy, and placed above the insertion of the corolla; the style is filiform, longer than the stamina, and terminated with a simple stigma ; the fruit is similar to that of the Sfyrax offi- cinale. Benzoin is brought to Europe in large masses of an amyg- ' Under these ti-rins Brandes seems to mean modifications of gum, resemblinnj cerasin or bassoriiiu. * C/. 10. Orel, 1. Decandria Monogynia, Nat. Ord. Bicornes, Linn. Gua- iacinx, Juss, B n