THE SWALLOW-WORT TRIBE.

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Its effects upon the system have

b e . " ,l P re sent of serious consequences.

erroneously coniectured to depend on other roots sometimes mixed' the genuine” ( United States Dispensatory).

We Es ‘~~Employed only as an anthelmintic. Its vermifuge propertiesp, r(i first made known to the profession by Drs. Lining ( Essay and Obs.^ s - and Lit. vol. i. p. 386) and Garden {Ibid. vol. iii. p. 145). Though% ^\ v uso ,i i T1 t i,- s nrv. it. stands at the head of anthelmintics in

"Ministration. —The dose of the powder for a child of three or four

This

used in this country, it stands at the head of anthelmintics inuited States of America .

Aiij

‘(l^ rs .°ld, is from grs. x. to grs. xx.: for an adult, 3j. to 3iij.the i s repeated, every morning and evening, for several days, and,.,. n followed bv a brisk cathartic. It is frequently combined with‘fioniel.

Spkiet.ijf., Ph . Un. States. (Spigelia root, Jss.; BoilingI'll. ’ ^5 xv j- Macerate for two hours in a covered vessel, and strain).—a <lul ^° Se f° r a child of two or three years old is f3ss. to f3j.: for anK,. t| hoin f3iv. to Jviij., repeated morning and evening. A quantity ofejj-p* a > e qual to that of the spigelia, is usually added, to insure a cathartic

^Preparation kept in the shops of the United States , and much pre-r l)(it 0( 1 by physicians, under the name of worm tea, consists of spigelias 'fit f enna > nianna, and savine, mixed together in various proportions toll| e views of different individuals {UnitedStates Dispensatory).

Other Medicinal Spigeliacece.

l^'liaanthelmin'ticah a native of South America and the West India Islands.

l "I" * s s * m ilar t0 that of the last mentioned species So poisonous has it been4\). ( ' et *> that in France it is called Brinvilliere, after the Marchioness de Brinvilliers,the famous for poisoning in the reign of I.ouis XIV., and who was executed onIWrtj 11 * * V °f July, 1676 (Guibourt, Hist, des Drag. t. ii. p. 227). Its anthelmintic pro-

IiL. ‘ "'CfP hi 17^1 he Hr Hi*nmno l d.oYtilffmnin * 1 a nnnvi'np for 'f'lno

B,

aiit ere Noticed in 1751, by Dr. Browne ( Gentleman's Magazine for 1751). Thisc ( | VV ii' v a^analyzed by Ricord Madianua (Gmelin, Handb. d. Chem. ii. 1297). Dr.

°l ) >urr' 1 Hist, of Jamaica , p. 157) says, it procures sleep almost as certainly asUn Eit 40. Asclepiada'ce/E, Lindley. — Tiie Swallow-wort Tribe.

Tli

Asclepiade.®, R . Brown .

1 ^ clif lias °f diis order are for the most part acrids. In large doses they are emetic

‘‘ ,r 6c: in small doses, expectorant, diaphoretic, and alterative. The roots areT|i () * usua lly em])loved in medicine.

V £ 1 1,0 '<e of the species are contained in the British pharmacopoeias, yet severalCW 0 p racll ‘ (i the attention of practitioners in this country.

'>i(li H r "Pis gig ante’a, R. Brown ( Asclep’ias gigante'a, Linn.) has been introduced fromr*He<l '" c name of Mudar or Madar. It is said to contain a peculiar principle

■ 'ffht ,, arlne > which coagulates by heat, and becomes again fluid on exposure to coldSa I1( j °ntrib. to the Bot. of India ). The principal value of Madar is as an altera-l 'o» s sudorific. It has been employed in venereal diseases, chronic cutaneous aflec-1 bT I, 1 1, var * ous other maladies (Playfair, Trans, of the Med. andPhys. Soc. Calcutta ,!'' a S J '. )• Mr. Robinson (Med. Chir. Trans, vol. x. p. 27) found it decidedly useful"V |, {| ^' cs °f elephantiasis which Mr. Playfair calls jugara or leprosy of the joints.Ai lls i ie /'I» r °f die hark of the root is given in doses of from grs. iij to grs. x. Dr."'ore eft; . ' vol. i. p. 486, and vol. ii. p. 488) considers the dried -milky juice

‘oeacious.