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ELEMENTS OF MATERIA MEDICA.
1 yg
of water down, by gentle simmering, to one pint) ; of this eight or t"ounces should be taken daily. . [ a s
2. Extiiactum Pareirm , L. E. (Prepared as Extract of GenU a ^ L eI]Extract of Liquorice-root, E.]) Dose, gr. x. to 5ss. It is usually oin conjunction with the infusion or decoction.
Other Medicinal Menispermacete. . to
The student must not confound pareira hrava with the pereira barkStrychnacece, and before noticed (see p. 922), nor with the Pereiria me ^ , f, a \ rA \cse{FI. Med. 370), a menispermaceous plant, whose root is employed by the Ciu„a stomachic.
Order 80. Magnolia'ce/e, Decandolle. —The Magnolia Tu ibE ‘
M a c miliacm: and Wintkuack.i:, Lindley . SeP^
Essential Character. —All the parts of the flower disposed in ternary ml ” 1 ^ e p„.yi |(lUS ’three to six, deciduous. Petals three to twenty-seven, in many series, h>PStamens numerous, free, inserted on the torus beneath the ovaries; aiit«£ r ^ ra llyelongated. Ovaries numerous, inserted on the torus above the stamens, . ” aS m*! 1 -’’disposed like a spike, monostylous; styles short; stigmas simple. Carpets glI p er io ras the ovaries, one-celled, one- or many seeded ; capsular,and dehiscing *?y,- a .,iar; ° rchink; or capsular and bivalved, dehiscing by an inferior chink; or * 0 " 1 oa rti*l^somewhat fleshy and indehiscent; or, lastly, samariform, aggregate, or c sr-united into a loose or dense strobile. Seeds attached to the internal angle o s j ir yJ>s-pels; albumen fleshy; embryo straight, small, inferior.—Elegant trees ' 0 o j 0 rif e "heaves alternate, pinnatinerved. Flowers conspicuous, often powerfullyrous (D. C.) ))V so" 11 ;
Properties. —Bark tonic and aromatic. The same properties are possessc aiiUof the fruits. The flowers by their odour readily occasion nausea, lieauafaintness.
Drimys Win'teri, Decandolle, D.— Winter s Bark Tree.
Wintera aromatica, Murray.
Sex. Syst. Polyandria, Tetragynia.
(Cortex, D.) c0J n'
History. —William Winter, captain of one of the ships which ‘ jjjp,panied Sir Francis Drake , in the year 1578, to the Straits of ^ c ptreturning in 1579, brought the bark of some trees, which he (y.down there, to Europe. From this circumstance Clusius (E%° • ^ e i-cap. 1, p. 75) called it Winter’s bark ( Winteranus cortex). It " aSwards confounded with Canella bark (see p. 1233). . _v-sceJ ed '
Botany. Gen. Ciiar. — Carpels congested, baccate, nnan}^ )Filaments thickest at the apex; cells of the anther separate (D-
Sr. Char. — Leaves oblong, obtuse, glaucous beneath. • t0 el 0 ' 1 "simple, approximated, or very short, divided ih
Fig. 241.
gated pedicels (D. C.) hprcul ate °
A large forest tree. Branches often tube o tofrom the scars of the old footstalks. oVil to
three, green. Petals seven, milk-white. x ,u ^\).(See Solander’s Med. Observ. and Inq. vol. v, ,?rew ada 'Hab. —Straits of Magellan,Chili, Peru , New • s eU
Description. —Winter’s bark (Cortex p l7l na c oii>'
Drimys Winteri.
Winteranus) occurs in quills or rolled P^ ece ^ r , ofl u 'monly a foot long, one or two inches in dian 1 p lV le'two or three lines thick. Its colour externally ^tic.yellowish, or dull reddish-gray, with red ^ jSspots; internally it is reddish-brown. I ts