Elements of pharmacy, materia medica, and therapeutics / by William Whitla.

  • Whitla William, Sir, 1851-1933.
Date:
1898
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    Iris, or Blue Flag—The rhizome and rootlets of Ir is versicolor yield .1 fluid extract and eclectic preparation, in the form of a brown powder. This latter preparation known as Iridin, is the one generally used. It acts as a powerful hepatic and intestinal stimulant, and closely resembles podophyllin in its effects. It is believed to possess alterative properties, which have given it a reputation as an antisyphilitic and antiscorbutic. It is a diuretic; and has been found to remove jaundice of malarial origin. I £ to 3 grs. every night in the form of a pill, followed by a mild saline, have given good results in the vomiting of pregnancy and in torpid liver. Itrol (Argenti Citras) is a light permanent powder used for insufflation. It is claimed for it that it possesses all the advantages of actol (page 489) without producing irritation. It may be dusted over wounds and ulcers, and injected (1 gr. in 16 ozs.) in gonorrhcea and cystitis. 1 in 500 disinfects instruments and hands, and I in 1,000 may be used as a gargle for the throat. Crede maintains that this agent is “ the wound anti- septic proper,” and is a certain means of keeping wounds sterile if dusted very thinly over them. Jacaranda Lancifoliata bas been used as a remedy for venereal diseases amongst the natives of Columbia, and Mennell has tried it with considerable success in gonorrhcea and gleet, which had resisted other treatments. He gave 15 minim doses of the tincture (2 ozs. to 1 pint), and in obstinate gleet injected 10 minims to 1 oz. water, which stopped the discharge rapidly. It has been used also with success in psoriasis and rheumatism, and it can be combined with iodides advantageously. Limousin gives the dose of the fluid extract, known as Salud, as 15 to 60 minims three times a day. Jambul, or Syzygium Jambolanum—The seeds of this myr- taceous tree have been tried in diabetes, and in some cases with no result, whilst in others the remedy was beneficial to an unexpected extent; in one case the urine fell from to quarts, and Fenwick reports a case where, in one week, sloughing ulcers rapidly healed and the urine fell to one-half after 2.J grs. powdered seeds three times a day. Double this amount may be given. It has been proved that the drug has a marked power in diminishing phloridzin diabetes in dogs. The fruit is used in India as an astringent in dysentery and diarrhoea. Jequirity. (See Abrus.) Juglans Cinerea, or Butternut—The bark of the branches has been long used as a mild purgative, and in smaller doses as a laxative in chronic constipation. Combined with calomel it has been given in intermittent fever and in dysentery.