1244
ELEMENTS OF MATERIA MEDICA.
employed as a substitute for the bitter orange peel■ “ Large q in
of it are sometimes productive of mischief, especially in cln \\ T e
whom colic, and even convulsions, arc sometimes indaced by 1 ■have known the case of a child, in which death resulted from ea D - g 3rind of an orange” ( United States Dispensatory). Orange J v ta y,le-refreshing and grateful beverage, and is extensively used at tIn febrile and inflammatory complaints it is a valuable refng erallaying thirst and diminishing preternatural heat.
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Fig. 231.
Sex. Syst. Polyadelphia, Polyandria.
(Fructfts cortex exterior, L .—Distilled Water of the flowers, Rind of the fruit, Volatile oil o
flowers, i£.)
History. —The bitter orange became known to Europe durinS^jgMiddle Ages. All the old established orange groves of Spain ; aS 0 f
at Seville , planted by the Mw 1 *’ isthe bitter orange. (Macfadj e ’Hooker's Bot. Miscel. i. 302).
Botany. Gen. Char .— ^ eemedica. . 1 c ut 0
Sp. Char. — Leaves ellipti c '^’p e f l0 Uor ac umiuated, slightly toothed. gj,
more or less wing ed. Flowers j,
white. Fruit orange-coloured, roj
or slightly elongated or depresse >with concave vesicles of oil; P ul ”and bitter (Wight and Arnott)-Numerous varieties of this arevated. One of these yields tie ^known in the English marketSeville Orange , pc-
Hab. —Asia. Cultivated in L u ver yDescription. —The leaves of this species, when rubbed, emitagreeable odour. Distilled with water they yield a bitter aro ^water, known in Languedoc as eau de naphre ( aqua naphee) ■ . . a i$,
same operation is procured a volatile oil, called the essence depeti y ' e>of finer quality than that obtained from the leaves of the sweet oThe flowers yield, by distillation with water, orange-flower water ,aurantii, Ph. Ed.) and oil of Neroli ( oleum aurantii, Ph . Ed.) of ^ ner Q p tk elity than the corresponding preparations obtained from the flowerssweet orange. The unripe fruits, like those of the sweet orang e ^ )rcalled orange berries, and are employed for the purposes befo^^ pjitioned (p. 1243). The Seville orange is round and dark, and pj,.uneven, rugged, very bitter rind ( bitter orange-peel; cortex auran ^ ^L. and Ed.), which is employed for medical purposes as well as](reparation of candied orange-peel, and for flavouring the liqneuiCuraqoa. - t of
Composition. —The composition of the leaves, flowers, anci j opgthe bitter orange is doubtless analogous to that of the corresp 0parts of the sweet orange.
Citrus vulgaris.