PURGING CASSIA.

1171

J a j' e <l, in commerce, as directed by the London and Edinburgh Colleges.a a P is frequently substituted, partially or wholly, for the senna and cassiaclip. Dv. p ar is mentions walnut liquor as a colouring ingredient in use ;o u adds, that a considerable quantity of this confection is made inaffordshire, in which unsound and spoilt apples enter as a principalJ^dient. When properly prepared, it is a pleasant, mild, and verye ctual purgative, and is frequently employed by pregnant women, per-afflicted with hemorrhoids or diseases of the rectum. When given° ne in a full dose it is apt to gripe. Dose, 3j. to 3vj. It is frequentlyb .Pl°yed as a vehicle for the exhibition of other cathartics; for examplear trate of potash.

pi.

as s ia Fis'tula, Linn. L. E. D. — The Pudding-Pipe Tree or Purging

Cassia.

Cathartocar'pus Fis'tula, Persoon.

Sex, Syst . Pecandria, Monogynia.

(Leguminum Fulpa, L.—Pulp of the Pods, Pulpa Leguminis, D.)

(v !«Tort.—T he earliest writers in whose works we find the fruit ofc e ' la I’istula mentioned, are the Arabians, Mesue, Serapion , and Avi-a ‘ The first Greek writer who notices it is Actuarius, who terms itu <a or black cassia (lib. v.)

s 0 t any. Gen. Char. —See Cassia (p. 1162).

Muo —Leaflets four to six pairs, ovate, somewhat acuminate,

tern* 111 ’ petioles glandless. Racemes lax, without bracts. Legumesj, ’ straight, somewhat obtuse, smooth (D. C.)tty eb ee from twenty to thirty feet high. Leaves alternate, pinnate, froma M f 6 e iehteen inches long; leaflets from tvvo to six inches long,c -ft«n« r ° tn 0ne an< l a, half to three inches broad. Stipules minute, lla-

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gfo,

°ne to two feet long. Flowers large, briglit-yellow, fragrant, onLegume cylindrical, ligneous, one to two feet long, ex-

S°air tStalks -

hg u v blacldsli-brown ; with three longitudinal bands or seams extend-

sing le e "'hole length, two of which by their contiguity appear to form a

the third being on the opposite side of the legume ; internally

sx* 1 ? numerous cells by thin, transverse partitions or phragmata,

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1Sse Pim' — -

'vh; c ! ne "ts. Seed one in each cell, surrounded by a soft blackish pulp,

the distension of the placenta, and therefore called spurious

Ql ch ar, - «. * *.

^PPears to be a secretion of the endocarp or inner coat of the pod.

I)u ■~"®ast Indies, Egypt. Introduced into the West Indies .

L ? Iption -—The pods of Cassia Fistula ( cassia fistula; legumenare imported from the East Indies (Madras and Ceylon),at >d g e West Indies (Barbadoes), and from South America (Cartliagenafhei r a ' ail illa). Their botanical description has been above given.

lbfJ pul ?? cassia fistula; pulpa leguminis cassia fistula) isat id ) j t j ack ’ with a sweetish taste. By exposure to the air it becomesh°(l,s y: consequence of undergoing the acetous fermentation. ThoseCoL.- ^ ^ le most pulp which are heavy, and do not rattle when shaken.

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Pulp is directed by the London College to be prepared as^ h°ur boiling water upon the bruised Pods of Cassia, that the“ " ashed out, which press first through a coarse sieve, andough a hair one; then evaporate the water in a water-pulp acquire a proper consistence.”