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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    Properties.—Tonic, diuretic, laxative, antiperiodic. Dose, 2.0 to 4.0 grams (5ss-j), in decoction or fluid extract. QUILLAIA.—Quillaia. Soapbark. Origin.—Quillaia saponaria, Molina. Natural order, Rosaceae, Roseae. Habitat.—Chili and Peru. Description.—The bark is deprived of the brown periderm. Flat large pieces, about 5 millimeters (i- inch) thick, pale brownish-white, and smooth on both sides, or the outer surface with small patches of brown cork ; tough ; fracture splintery; transverse section checkered, with tangentially arranged pale brownish bast fibres, white bast parenchyma, and dis- tinct white medullary rays; inodorous, very acrid, sternutatory. Constituents.—Saponin, C32H54018 (see Saponaria), numerous crystals of calcium sulphate, little starch. Properties.—Stimulant, diuretic, irritant, detergent. Dose, 1.0 to 2.0 grams (gr. xv-xxx), in infusion. ULMUS.—Slippery Elm. Origin.-—Ulmus fulva, Michaux. Natural order, Urticacese, Ulmeae. Habitat.—North America, in woods. Description.—The bark is deprived of the brown periderm. Flat pieces varying in length and width, about 3 millimeters (J- inch) thick, tough, pale brown- ish-white, the inner surface finely ridged; fracture