A manual of organic materia medica : being a guide to materia medica of the vegetable and animal kingdoms for the use of students, druggists, pharmacists, and physicians / by John M. Maisch.

  • Maisch, John M. (John Michael), 1831-1893.
Date:
1882
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Credit: A manual of organic materia medica : being a guide to materia medica of the vegetable and animal kingdoms for the use of students, druggists, pharmacists, and physicians / by John M. Maisch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Description.—Broadly ovate or pear-shaped, 10 to 15 centimeters (4-6 inches) in diameter ; in commerce usually the fleshy scales, rejecting the insipid inner ones; narrow segments about 5 centimeters (2 inches) long, slightly translucent, yellowish-white or reddish, brittle and pulverizable when dry, flexi- ble on exposure; inodorous, mu- cilaginous, bitter and acrid. Constituents.—Mucilage, sugar, crystals of calcium oxalate; the active principles are scillipicrin (hygroscopic, bitter, very soluble in water, acts upon the heart), scillitoxin (bitter, burning taste, soluble in alcohol, acts upon the heart), and scillin (soluble in alcohol and boiling ether, produces numbness, vomiting, etc.) [Merck.] Jarmersted's scillain is a glucoside, soluble in alcohol, poisonous. Properties.—Expectorant, diuretic, cathartic, emetic, irritant. Dose, 0.03 to 0.3 or 0.0 gram (gr. ss-v-x), in powder, vinegar, syrup, or tincture. Scilla.—Bulb. ALLIUM.—Garlic. Origin.—Allium sativum, Lin. Natural order, Li- liacese. Habitat.—Asia and Southern Europe, cultivated. . Description.—Bulb subglobular, compound, consist- ing of about eight compressed wedge shaped bulblets, 13