Catalogue of the collections / Comp. by E.M. Holmes.

  • Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. Museum.
Date:
1878
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    \ 2 6. Coptis tbifolia, Salisb. {Gold Thread.) a. Root. Note.—Official in the United States Pharmacopoeia. A pure hitter tonic like calumha; probably owing its properties to herberia. Wood and Bache, Dispens., p. 32G; P. J. [3] , vol. i., p. 161. Amer. Journ. Pharm., May 1873, p. 193. For fig. of plant, see Bentley and Trimen, Med. Plants, tab. 3. 7. Coptis Teeta, Wall. a. Rhizome (Coptis, Mishmi Tito). Note.—Official in the Indian Pharmacopoeia as a tonic. In China it is used under the name of Hwang-lien and Chuen-lien. See hid. Pharm., p. 4. Pharmacographia, p. 4. Porter Smith, Mat. Med. Chin., p. 126 (art. Justicia). It contains 8J p. c. of Berberine. 8. Delphinium Staphisagria, L. (Stavesacre.) a. Seeds. See Bentleij and Trimen, Med. Plants, tab. 4. b. Oil expressed from the seeds. 9. Helleborus Niger, L. (Black Hellebore^ Christmas Rose.) a. Rhizome and rootlets preserved wet. b. Rhizome. Note.—The root of Aetata spieata may be detected by its decoction being blackened by ferric salts. Vide Actaea spieata, and P. J. [1], vol. xii., p. 274; Berg, Anat. Atlas, taf. 17. For fig. of rhizomes of H. niger, see Goebel und Kunze, pt. ii., taf. xxxi., f. 1; and for rhizomes of H. viridis, L., and H. fcetidus, L., pt. ii., taf. xxxii., ff. 2, 3. For fig. of H. niger, see Bentley and Trimen, Med. Plants, tab. 2. 10. Hydrastis Canadensis, L. (Golden Seal, Yellow Puccoon, Yellow Root, Ground Raspberry.) a. Rhizome. For fig. of plant, see Bentl. & Trim., Med. Plants, tab. 1. Note.—Official in the United States Pharmacopoeia. A powerful bitter used in atonic states of the mucous membrane. An available source of berberia, as it contains 4 per cent, of that alkaloid. P. J. [2], vol. hi., pp. 540-546 ; and [3], vol. iii., p. 694. 11. Xanthorhiza apiifolia, Merit. {Yellow Root.) a. Root. b. Ditto. Presented by Mr. D. Hanbury. Note.—A pure bitter tonic like calumba, and also containing berberia. Official in the secondary list of the United States Pharmacopoeia. P. J. [2], vol. iv., p. 12. Specimen 6 is an authentic one coUected by Professor Asa Gray. For fig. of plant, see Bentley and Trimen, Med. Plants, tab. 9. MAGNOLIACE^E. 12. Drimys Winteri, Forster. (Winter s Baric; Pepper Baric.) a. Bark. Presented by Mr. F. J. Hanbury. b. Section of Trunk. Note.—The section of the trunk formerly belonged to Eobert Brown The bark of Drimys Winteri, var. granatensis, sometimes appears in the English market under the name of pepper bark. The true Winter's bark is known from the spurious drug by its very rough inner surface, by occurring in small pieces, and by being of a red-brown colour. See Cinnamodendron, p. 17 Pharmacographia, p. 17.