The dispensatory and pharmacopoeia of North America and Great Britain / by John Buchanan and John J. Siggins.

  • Buchanan, John.
Date:
1878
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    EUPHORBIA IPECACUANHA. AMERICAN IPECAC. The root of Euphorbia Ipecacuanha. Branching repeatedly from a long perpendicular root, widely spreading leaves barely an inch long, varying from obovate to linear; peduncles solitary in the forks, slender; flower cup dull purple. Properties: Emetic, diaphoretic, expectorant and epispastic. Em- ployed in dropsical affections, bilious colic and dyspepsia. This remedy has all the properties of the ipecacuanha. Preparations and Doses: See Euphorbia. EUPHORBIUM. EUPHORBIUM. The concrete juice of an undetermined species of Euphorbia. Properties: Emetic, cathartic, errhine and rubefacient. Employed; principally as a rubefacient and vesicant, in rheumatism, gout and neu- ralgic pains. Not used internally. EUPHRASIA. EYEBRIGHT. The leaves of Euphrasia Officina/is. Leaves entire, opposite, ovate or cordate, downy, strongly ribbed and furrowed. Properties: Tonic and astringent. Employed in mucous discharges, coughs, hoarseness, earache and headache. Locally applied as a poultice in ophthalmia. Preparations and Doses: Tinctura euphrasiae, one to two drachms; Extractum euphrasiae fluidum, one-half to one drachm. FAGUS. BEECH. The bark of Fagus Ferruginea. A common forest tree; wood pine-grained ; bark smooth, light-gray. Leaves oblong-ovate and taper pointed ; distinctly toothed, thin, their silky hairs early deciduous; the very straight veins all ending in the salient teeth. Properties: Astringent, tonic and alterative. Employed in syphilis, scrofula, passive hemorrhages and anaemia. Its alterative properties are of a rare and valuable character. Preparations and Doses : Extractum fagi fluidum, ten to sixty drops. FARINA. WHEAT FLOUR. The grain of Triticum Vulgare, ground and sifted. Wheat flour in its unaltered state is seldom used in medicine, except in the form of