ACACIA.

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Ration with chalk, and frequently with opium. In pyrosis the com-

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Ilr p P 0Wc ^ er °f kino (i. e. opium and kino) has been found serviceable,of * em herton ( Diseases of the Abdom . Viscera) ascribes to kino a power.gaining the discharge of the mucous glands of the intestinal canalare secreting too much, and of contracting vessels already toov i rc taxed, without exerting any such power over the glands andast' "ken they are acting naturally. It has been administered as an^gent i n leucorrhcea and sanguineous exhalations, and as a tonic inand 7ni ^ en ^ s - As a topical astringent it has been applied to fleshy ulcers,Used as a gargle, injection, and wash.

1 ^nistration.—T he dose of the powder is grs. x. to 3ss.

Vl' J' w p ruuA Kino, L. E. D. (Kino, bruised, Siiiss. [Siij. Z>.]; Recti-Spirit, Oij. [Proof Spirit, Oij. wine measure, D.] Digest for sevenI>rc tkuirteen, A.], and strain. “ This tincture cannot be convenientlyby the process of percolation,’’ E.) —Astringent. Used inI) OSi loe a and hemorrhages, generally as an adjunct to the chalk mixture,i^tytoftij.—It is said, that by keeping, this tincture has in somec Un- Il ) Ces become gelatinous, and lost its astringency. Where this oc-r e? - ( r,P r °b a bly the Botany Bay kino (inspissated juice of the Eucalyptus

2 p rffl ) had been employed.

I^ a rd Kino compositus, L. I). (Kino, 3xv.; Cinnamon , gss.;

tli ern > klpium, 3j. Rub them separately to a very fine powder; then mixPowd’ 'twenty grains of this powder contain one grain of opium.—ThisTh e a* ls cm ployed as an astringent in chronic diarrhoea, pyrosis, &c.°se of it is grs. v. to 9j.

Sub-order 11.— Mimoseje.

■Aca'cia, Decandolle.— Various Species yielding Gum, E.

Aca'cia ve'ra, L. —Aca'cia araVica et A. ve'ra, D.

Sex. Syst. Polygamia , Moncecia.jj (Gummi, L. D.— Gum, E.)

—The Shittali tree ( Isaiah, xli. 19), whose wood is men-l )Qs ed ) ln sever al parts of the Old Testament (as Exod. xxv. 5) is sup-4. 0 he an Acacia. By some it has been thought to have been the

a (Carpenter, Script. Nat. Hist.), by others, the A. horrida ( Picture

UhiTP^ates speaks of the Acacia (■'AravTa or Thorn, p. 568, ed. Foes.)°th er .• e sometimes calls the Egyptian Acacia ("A. aiyvrrrla, p. 671), atto r e f e lrnes ’the White Acacia ('A. \cvnii, p. 632). He is usually supposedui°u , r to Acacia vera; but Dierbach ( Arzneim. d. Hippok.) is of opi-hy la t A. Senegal is meant; which, he observes, is distinguished^hit e "uite bark, white wood, and white flowers, and therefore the term(/*6p 0 „ ^° u \ ( t apply to it only. Furthermore the white fragrant ointmentthe ^ l f :ov Viyvirnov, p. 265) was probably prepared from the flowers of0i,1 tnien and not of A. vera, whose flowers would yield a yellows P Gc ies ’ n and have not such an agreeable odour as those of the formerhe usccl • ^ 'Pl’ocrates (pp. 667 and 686) also mentions gum (icoggi), which* n medicine. Delile ( Flore d’Egypte, p. 286, fol.) considers thetu he Aca- S thirsty Thorn) of Theophrastus (Hist. Plant, lib. iv. cap. 8)‘4 J i'na sitig la ^ e y a h which Pliny (Hist. Nat. lib. xiii. cap. 1, ed. Valp.) calls