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ELEMENTS OF MATERIA MEDICA.
to till the poison has been evacuated from the stomach. ( g■)
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Respiration. —As a last resource this is on no account to be ~~ .^ c .
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Death has on several occasions been apparently averted by it-resting case, in which it was successfully practised, was published ■years ago by Mr. Whately, {Med. Obs. and Inq. vi. 331). Naturaration was extinct when it was begun. In another successful case, j_eptby Air. Smith (Med. Chir. Trans, xx. 86), artificial respiration " a ® tflr -asup for four hours and a half, (with an interval of an hour). AVhe 11commenced there was no pulse at the wrist, and only a slight ll ^ t ^ ) j r daction of the heart, indicative that life was not quite extinct. - 1case, also successful, is that of an infant ten days old, who hac | ja Jtwenty-five or thirty drops of laudanum intended for the mother, an )S ,lost the power of deglutition, was comatose, and had several con'’ ^
Artificial respiration was sustained for two or three hours, (UnitedDispensatory).
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Menispermeae, Jussieu.
Essential Character.— Flowers (by abortion ?) unisexual, usually dicecj. 0 ^’^small. Floral integuments in one or several rows, each of which consists ofour parts, hypogynous, deciduous. Petals sometimes absent. Males: stt ((|j tb enadelphous, or rarely distinct; sometimes equal in number and oppos* t ,val“ s ’petals; at other times three or four times as many; anthers adnate, turned e» c ,or inserted on the apex of the filament. Females: ovaries sometimes numer.^ rn a,, qwith one style cohering slightly at the base; sometimes solitary, crowned wstigmas, internally many-celled, and, therefore, consisting of many carpelstogether. Drupes usually berried, one seeded, oblique or lunate, compress^, ^ e cd‘of the same shape as the fruit; embryo curved or turned in the direction o ^ face
cumference; albumen none, or small and fleshy; cotyledons flat, sometimes ^ e ed ■’
to face, sometimes distant from eaeh other and lvino- in two cells °t u 1
to face, sometimes distant from each other, and lying in two cellsradicle superior, but sometimes appears inferior when the apex of the ■ I UI ir |,’mode of growth, contiguous with the base.—Sarmentaceous, flexible, |
Leaves alternate, simple or rarely compound, mucronate. Flowers srnil ’
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Properties.—T he roots of several species are bitter and tonic; the seedthem are narcotic.
Coc'culus palma'tus, Decandolle , L. E.— The Calumba Pl arl ^
Memspermum palmatum, Lamarck .
Sex. Syst. Dioecia, Hexandria.
(Radix, Xt. D.—Root JS.) .
History. —Franciscus Redi (Exp. circa varias res nat. id 1
is the first writer who mentions the root of this plant: he praisesalexipharmic or antidote for poisons. Cartheuser afterwards e tl lCit; but Dr. Thomas Percival (Med. Essays, vol. ii. p. 3, 1773) 8‘ jj 3 $best account of it. This root has been known by various names, ^ In*”Calumba, Colombo, Calomba, and Colombo . Its native countrya j^aS'torj r were long involved in obscurity. In 1830, Dr. Hooker £ e i yd 6
2970-71) published a complete description of both the male aI1( ^ vl) o>plants. The root was at first supposed to come from Colombo, , g „obCeylon , and from which it was said to derive its name. Ibitknown to be the produce of Alozambique. Its English name ^is derived from the Portuguese word Kalumbo, the o in whm(Berry, As. Research, x. 385.) . Cd^
Botany. Gen. Ciiaii. — Flowers unisexual, (always ?) dice cl0U ’