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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    and fibrous in the inner layer, with numerous yellow stone-cells and bast fibres; odor aromatic; cinnamon- like ; taste pungent, slightly bitter. Another coto (paracoto) bark is usually about 12 to 18 millimeters (J-f inch) thick; sometimes with whitish fissured cork ; odor fainter, nutmeg-like. Constituents.—Cotoin, C22H]806 (pale yellow, very acrid) in coto bark. Paracotoin, C19HJ206 (pale yellow, tasteless); leucotin, C34H32O10; oxyleucotin, C34H32012; dibenzoylhydro-cotoin, C32H3208; and hydro-cotoin, C15H1404, in paracoto bark. Both barks contain vola- tile oil and piperoxylic acid, C8H604; no tannin. Properties.—Useful in diarrhoea. Dose, 0.3 to 0.6 gram (gr. v-x) in powder or tincture. Dose of cotoin 0.05 to 0.10 gram (f-1 J gr.), of paracotoin 0.1 to 0.2 gram (gr. jss-iij). EUONYMUS.—Wahoo. Origin.—Euonymus atropurpureus, Jacquin. Nat- ural order, Celastraceas. Habitat.—Northern and Middle United States, in shady woods. Description— Quilled or curved pieces, about 2 millimeters inch) thick; outer surface ash-gray with blackish patches, detached in thin and small scales; inner surface whitish or slightly tawny, smooth; fracture smooth, whitish, the inner layers tangentially striate; nearly inodorous; taste sweetish, somewhat bitter, and acrid. Constituents.—Euonymin (very bitter), resins, euonic acid, asparagin, starch, pectin.