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HOMCEOPATHIC
PHARMACOPOEIA
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1880
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CHICAGO:
DUNCAN
B R O T H E R S, P U B L
1878.
II
E K S.
Copyrighted by
Duncan Brothers.
1878.
PREFACE.
It is a singular fact, that, although the
number
physicians in the United States equal those of

world, up to the
present
there has
Some
pathic Pharmacopoeia.
of
all
Homoeopathic
the rest of the
been no American Homoeo-
years ago an enterprising publisher
announced one, and sought the endorsement of the American
tute of Homoeopathy.
report.
Next year
authoritative work.
ress !"
was
committee was appointed to examine and
recommended that the
From
Institute prepare
the World's Convention, in Philadelphia in 1876, the
Pending
an
year to year the report has been "prog-
referred to an international committee to report in
1881.
this
At
it
Insti-
this delay, the profession
manual has been prepared
work
London
in
have become impatient, and
to supply the pressing need.
The United States Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia
does not
claim to be an exhaustive work, but will doubtless prove a convenient
handbook.
It has
been compiled largely from the ancient and modern
Jûropean works on this branch, while the preparation of the newer
remedies found in the Encyclopaedia of Materia Medica,

dies, etc.,
have been added, making
principles of Homoeopathic
all
Pharmacy.
New Eeme-
conform to the established
Some
questionable articles
have been omitted, or simply admitted by name.
Notwithstanding
PREFACE.
the greatest care
in the
main
we
regret to notice a
this work,
we
believe, will be found reliable,
tain valuable information not given in
To
to
few errors and omissions, but
this
work modern and
to con-
any other work.
the pharmacists, chemists and physicians,
make
and
practical,
who have
and
contributed
especially to those
through whose hands the MS. has passed, are hereby accorded the
sin-
cere thanks of
The Publishers.
INTRODUCTION.
The
distinguishing features of Homoeopathic
Pharmacy
are the
and preservation of single

and uncontaminated.
careful selection, preparation, attenuation
remedies separate,
distinct
Homoeopathic Pharmacy arose from necessity.
When Hahnemann's
experiments unfolded to him the law of cure" similia similihus curaniitr" he found that the single, similar remedy, to be reliable, must
be selected with the greatest care.
The doses
of drugs then in vogue,
produced, he soon discovered, decided and long lasting aggravations,
and he set about devising means of diluting them, instead of resorting

to the method of attempting to control the action of one by introducing another, as is done in polypharmacy. Fortunately he was a
skilled chemist, and a careful student of drug action, or Homoeopathy
would doubtless have been swamped in its infancy. He carefully
expressed the juice of the fresh plants, diluting this with water, and
adding alcohol to preserve it. For the insolubles he devised the
method of trituration with sugar of milk. To preserve these remedies
pure from contamination the greatest care was necessary.
At the head of each remedy in the Materia Medica Pura, minute and
careful directions were given how each should be prepared. As the
collection of proved remedies grew from a score to hundreds, and the
number
of physicians
who
practiced Homoeopathically increased in
INTRODUCTION.
Germany and
demand for these remedies mulwork on Homoeopathic Pharmacy became a neces-
other countries, and the
tiplied, a separate
The first reliable one on the list was prepared by Gruner prepared, we believe, by the sanction and under the supervision of Hahnemann himself. Since then several similar works have appeared in
sity.
Germany, France and Great
Britain.
No one needs to know the quality
of the implements or instruments
more than the physician. Not only the life of the patient
hand may be saved by the excellence of the drug which he is about
of his art,
in
by
to use, or be lost
arise in his
own
its
improper preparation, but similar cases
practice, or in that of others to
the case, in which the turning point
may
whom
he
may
may
relate
be the success or want of
success of this drug in this one case.
Hence, though the physician may, and with good reason, have the
greatest confidence in his pharmaceutist, he never can be so sure of
any preparation which he obtains from another as that which he
makes
himself,
and a physician whose engagements permit
do better than prepare

great
of
number
his
own
cannot
attenuations from the crude drug.
of indigenous plants
Homoeopathy puts
it,
The
which are now used in the practice
this quite within the reach of all country prac-
titioners at least.
For the use and behalf of those who concur in these sentiments, the
following work has been prepared. In its preparation it has been necessary to suppose that the practitioner had, at least, an elementary
knowledge of chemistry and botany.
The various mineral and veget-
able products are described minutely enough for the purposes of one
thus informed.
A more
extended chemical or botanical account of
the various drugs, would have increased the size of the book beyond
all just
proportions.
In order to conform more closely to long established methods of

procuring the tincture by maceration, the quantity of menstruum has
been retained as given in older works.

tion.
Where two
pharmacist should see that

that which
is lost
And
this requires explana-
parts of alcohol to one of the plant

sufficient
menstruum
is
is
directed, the
added
to replace
by evaporation or retained by absorption, to secure
the two parts of tincture after maceration.
This direction
is
neces-
sary from the fact that the "fresh plant," in case of foreign growths,
IKTRODUCTION.
does not
mean
the "green plant," and hence too
much menstruum will
be absorbed in the process.
A word about active
principles introduced in this work.
Organic
Chemistry has developed the fact that the medicinal nature of plants
depends on a natural combination of definitely organized constituents.
Most of these have strong chemical aflSnities, unalterable composition,

and unite with inorganic agents to form new compounds. There are
vegetable acids, bases (alkaloids), and salts also substitution products, and highly organized principles related to hydrocarbons
and
;
extractives not ultimately analyzed, yet of powerful medicinal action.

It is a recognized, but not confirmed principle in
Homoeopathic
medication that the preparation of the entire portion of the plant

containing these extractive principles
is
necessary to get the full indi-
vidual influence of the drug, and that not a single principle should be
removed.
In
fact, that
tout ensemble of the
an active principle alone cannot represent the
Hence the Homeopathic School uses
medicine.
tinctures almost exclusively, even objecting to removal of chlorophyl,
and does not encourage the use of the stronger alkaloids. This view
is based on sound reasoning, and should obtain oflflcial recognition
with a few readily recognized exceptions.
The
active principles are given in this work, to a certain extent, for
Every physician desires to locate the source of

purchasable drugs, and naturally turns to his Pharmacopoeia. Again,
the solvent, time, and process of maceration is conformed to the nature
substantial reasons.
of these active principles
Eesinous principles require alcohol,
oils
gums, water, and crystallizable products either

or all of these menstrua. There are also specific uses for the uncombined principles, as atropine for the eye. Lastly, as connected with
(fatty), require
ether
the development of science and exact knowledge,
it is
better to have
a comprehensive view of the agents in our hands.
There are certain principles in many plants not mentioned in the

descriptions,
gums
in
which each will recognize for himself, as tannin in barks,
minor quantities,
etc.
The drug having been thus distinguished from

ilar,
concise directions are given for
its
preparation, according to the
teachings of the Homoeopathic School.

glance,
how
others which are sim-
One can
readi.y see, at a
desirable is uniformity of preparation in this respect,
and
iKTRODtrCTIOK.
it is
to be
hoped that the reader
will find in the following pages, that
there has been no swerving from the Homoeopathic standard.

best authorities have been consulted in
its
preparations, and
mitted to the profession, with the confident expectation that

tions will be correct
it is
The
com-
its direc-
and trustworthy.
PRECIPITATED METALS.
For
trituration, it has
been the custom to direct the metal precipi-
tated from chemical solution.

is
not advisable, and the
fine
advantageous notably so
With some metals the chemical process

filings of the metal is equally or more
in the case of copper.
GENERAL PHARMACY.
In
all
matters pertaining to Homoeopathic Pharmacy, the utmost
exactness should be observed, both in the selection of medicinal
agents and in their preparation, so that doubt
may
not afterward
arise in regard to their reliability.
In the
ment
in
in
first
place, the strictest cleanliness should pervade the apart-
which the operations are carried on, as well as the cases,
which the various implements are contained.
Fuming
etc.,
chemicals,
and other strong, odorous substances, that a thoughtful man would

exclude, should find no place in a pharmacist's laboratory.
The
utensils,
when not
in use, should be covered to prevent the
accumulation of dust, cobwebs,

just previous to use.
using,
more
when
and thoroughly dusted or washed
These should be cleansed immediately after
and not permitted
difficult to
etc.,
to
remain until next wanted, as
remove dried or encrusted matters,
these are recent; besides,
all
it is
much
after a time, than
such matters are apt to decom-
pose and become offensive to sight and smell.
Boiling water
is
of the
ness, as it is not only
first
importance for ensuring perfect cleanli-
more speedy, but more certain
in its effects.
In order that any lingering traces chancing to remain

troyed, a small portion of
may
alcohol should be poured into
be des-
all
open
and allowed to burn itself out, rinsing again with

Mortars, in which strongly scented substances, such as
vessels, lighted
hot water.
musk, camphor,
b
asafoetida, castoreum, sulphur, etc.,
have been
trit-
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urated, should, in addition to the foregoing, be exposed to the heat ot
an oven,tliat the odorous
may
ings,
particles adhering in spite of repeated wash-
The same precaution should be
be entirely dissipated.
observed with regard to the pestle
horn spatulas should be rapidly
The same
rinsed with hot water, and then plunged into cold water.
bottle should not be employed to contain two, three or more substances
in succession,
and the same care applies
may appear
It
that such care
to corks
extreme and unnecessary, but when
is
remembercHl that the addition of a few equivalents
it is
the chemical nature of a substance that
another name, a due precaution,
is
it
so
change
necessary to give
readily seen,
it is
may
becomes
it
essential.
There are cases on record in which medico-legal evidence, affirming

the presence of certain poisons in the stomachs of those dying suddenly, has been overthrown by demonstration of the fact that impure
chemicals were employed in the examinations made.
we claim
Besides
all this,
a scientific precision in our system of medicine, a claim in
which our pharmacy should equally share, inasmuch as the success of

the former depends in a large measure upon the exactness of the
latter.
UTENSILS NECESSARY.
The
utensils for pharmaceutical purposes are
numerous and
varied,
according to the requirements of the pharmacist, but as the scope of

this
work does not permit
of extended detail in everything pertaining
to this art, a brief allusion will be

able.
made only
These are
These should be of what
to such as are indispens-
Mortars.
glass, iron or agate.
This implement
known
is
is
as
wedgwood ware,
for the purpose of bruising,
powdering or triturating medicinal substances in order to

medical use.
fit
them
for
In this manner fresh, succulent plants are beaten to a
pasty mass for further processes
dried vegetable substances are
brought to various degrees of comminution animal, mineral or chem;
ical
substances are reduced to powder, and the attenuation of drugs
by trituration
effected.
Graduate Glasses. These are glass vessels, usually (when small) in

the shape of an inverted cone, upon the side of which
marked, graduated
minims.
scale, divided into
is
an indelibly
drams, ounces, and frequently
These are for the purpose of measuring
definite quantities
of fluid.
Spatulas are flexible blades used for scraping together substances

that are undergoing contusion or trituration, carrying powders, etc.
They
are of steel, horn, bone, or ivory, the
two
latter being preferable,
IIOMCEOPATHIC PHARMACOPCEIA.
for the reason that metal
horn
is
too soft and
is
npon by vegetable
often acted
warped by
is
19
acid,
and
heat.
Evaporating dishes should always be porcelain lined.

Glass or porcelain funnels are used to support the paper or muslin
cloth during the process of filtration.
amber colored
Vials should be of
glass, or else
paper, so that the actinic rays of light
infrequent that well

less
made
may
covered with black

It is not
be excluded.
tinctures or dilations are rendered worth-
by the chemical rays inducing material changes
them, and
in
hence the necessity of precaution.

Glass rods are of use to
tion,
mix
fluids
more intimately, with the excep-
however, of hydrofluoric acid, which attacks the glass
itself.
Corks should have a firm, even grain, and be entirely free from
cracks and pores.
A porous cork allows
a great evaporation to take
and as a consequence the tincture or dilution undergoes constant change, becoming more concentrated with the loss of its alcoplace,
What
hol.
are
known
as velvet corks are to be preferred, not only
on
account of their texture, but their tapering form allows of a more perfect adaptation to the
neck of the vial or
bottle.
They
are far superior
to glass stoppers, except in case of corrosive liquids.
Each vial should be used for a single drug, and no other

make a rule to which there are no exceptions. To free the
;
from dust, a piece of
vials
around the end of a
soft,
unprinted paper
is
this
should
interior of
to be
wrapped
and rubbed over the interior surface until

all has been removed.
Broken corks that have fallen into the vial
can be extracted by means of a wire, bent at one end in the form of a
hook a loop of twine will often accomplish the same purpose.
stick,
The Scales. These should be evenly hung, and

drafts of air will not influence their motions.
so placed that any
Previous to use they
beam especially, as dust will

frequently interfere with its oscillations. The bearings, also, should
be freed from any accumulations that may gather. The scales should
should be wiped with a soft cloth, the
be tested before use to see whether they balance.

should receive the drug, and not the pan
A powder
paper
this should be equalized
by
another paper of the same weight in the other pan.
The foregoing articles are at once the most important and essential,
and with them the pharmacist is enabled to prepare the greater number of medicines used in Homoeopathy. It is more convenient, however, to possess two or more of each, and in varying sizes. Mention
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be
will
made
implements that the
in their proper places, of other
requirements or ingenuity of the amateur pharmacist
may
supply.
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.

There are two systems of weights used in pharmacy, respectively
known
as avoirdupois and troy weights. While
mer
used in drug commerce, the latter
is
all
the only recognized stand-
pharmaceutical operations
Twenty grains equal
Three scruples equal

Eight drams equal Twelve ounces equal
13
lib
I3
the one to
is
Weight.
2Vo:v
The
true that the for-
Accordingly, the following table
ard in the laboratory.

be adhered to in
is
it is
one scruple.
one dram.
one troy ounce.
one pound troy.
troy ounce contains 480 grains, while the avoirdupois has but
437i.
In measuring fluids the wine pint
the standard.
is
Wine Measure.
Sixty minims equal Eight drams equal Sixteen ounces equal
The minim
is
f3
1 f3
one fluid dram.

one fluid ounce
one pint.
a unit adopted in view of the varying size of the drop,
and the character O,
(the
abbreviation of Octavius), denotes the
The
eighth part of a gallon.
gallon
is
not mentioned, but greater
quantities than sixteen fluid ounces are designated as so
many
pints.
French or Metric System.
The French or metric system, now used in the marine hospitals of

this country, is based upon the ten millionth part of the earth's quadrant,
and the unit thus obtained
A cube whose edge
is
called a meter.
measures the tenth of a meter
weight of a cube of rain water at
its
is
ître,
greatest contraction,
and the
its
edge
is a gramme.
and Greek; the former decrease the
being the hundredth of a meter,
The
prefixes are both Latin
value, the latter increase
it.
Measures of Weight.
Troy Grains.
Milligramme
Centigramme
Decigramme
GRAMME
Decagramme
Hectogramme
Kilogramme
Myriagramme
.0154
.1543
-
1.5434
15.4340
lb
154.3402 equal to
Grs.
34.3
1543.4023 equal to
43.4
15434.0234 equal to
14
20
2
154340.2344 equal to 26
HOMCEOPATHIC PHAR3IAC0PCEIA.
21
Measures of Quantity.
Apothecaries' Measure.
English Cubic Inches.

Millilitre
Centilitre
Decilitre
.061028 equal to 1U.2318
LITKE
61,028000 equal to
610.280000 equal to
3.3816 fluid ounces.

2.1135 pints.
2.6419 gallons.
61028.000000
minims.
2.7053 fluid drams.
6102.800000
Myrialitre
6.102800 equal to
Decalitre
Hectolitre
Kilolitre
.610280 equal to
610280.0000000
It will be noticed that the
standard
is
increased and diminished by
the decimal scale.
CHEMICAL MANIPULATION.
In the manufacture of chemical substances there are certain processes to
which these are submitted, and as frequent allusion
will be
made
them
will
to
in the course of this work, a synopsis of
such
be
given here.
Distillation.
This consists
in vaporizing a liquid contained in
one
and conducting the heated vapor by means of a tube into

another, where it is condensed, and passes into the liquid state. This
is generally accomplished by means of a retort, (a semi-globular implement, having a long, continuous beak), which is inserted into a globular vessel, the receiver.
When distillation is carried on upon a large
scale, the retort is changed in shape and called a still the beak very
greatly extended and arranged in successive coils, the worm. The
process of distillation separates single substances, or certain compounds, from others, usually held in solution. Solids are sometimes
vessel,
distilled in similar
gaseous, and
may
The products may be
manner.
not even be present until heat
is
spirituous, oily, or
applied.
Precipitation. ^This is the deposition of substances
and
it
usually occurs in a pulverulent form.
It is the result, (1) of
chemical change, by which the dissolved substance

ble
(2)
from solution,
is
rendered insolu-
by a modiflcation of the solvent as the addition of alcohol to
a watery solution will throw

naturally insoluble in alcohol
evaporation, and
(3)
or less of those substances
by a reduction of the solvent, as by
by a change in the temperature of the solvent.
(4)
Crystallization is
down more
where precipitation
results in the formation of
regular geometric shapes, and more frequently follows a reduction

in the temperature or
Decantation. This
side,
and pouring
is
volume of the
solvent.
effected by allowing the solid portions to sub-
off the liquid
portion without disturbing the residue.
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This
is
easily
accomplished by holding a glass rod in a vertical posi-
tion against the lip of the vessel in v^hich the fluid
siphon, a tube bent in two unequal portions,
is
The
another means of
is
contained.
accomplishing the same purpose.

Filtration. This
and
solids,
is
is
understood to mean the separation of
more thorough than decantation.
spreading unsized paper,
(''filtering
It is
fluids
from
accomplished by
paper"), or muslin cloth, in a fun-
upon it. The liquid separated in this way is called a filtrate. Acid and corrosive liquids should
be filtered through pyroxalin, or asbestos, bedded at the top of the
nel,
and pouring the mixture
to
be
filtered
funnel tube.
8uhli7nation. ln the distillation of solids, and a few liquids, the
which case the process is called subIn subliming, the vapor is usually condensed and deposited
distillate is deposited as
limation.
solid, in
very quickly, and in the crystalline form.
VEHICLES USED IN PHAKMACY.
The drug in its crude state is often unfitted for administration, inasmuch as it is apt to be too strong to administer as such, or the reverse
where it is exceedingly diffused, as in many plants. To obtain the
and preserve them, and at the
same time have a convenient and manageable form for administration,
certain menstrua or vehicles are employed these are known as solfullest virtues of the medicinal agent,
vents and triturates.
Compounded preparations
is
find
no place in Homoeopathy
indeed
it
one of our principles that only the uncombined drug should be used,
thus avoiding complex chemical changes which must occasionally take

place
when two
or
more
are
mixed together.
The menstrua
or vehi-
cles must therefore be simple, non-medicinal substances.*
SOLVENTS.
Distilled
of purity,
purity.
fâto'.
it
Although water
is
usually regarded as the symbol
seldom, perhaps never, occurs in a state of absolute
Its well
known
solvent powers cause
it
to be charged,
more
or less, with neutral salts, chlorine compounds, metals and a great
variety of foreign matters
even rain water, particularly that falling
in the early part of a severe thunder storm, contains a certain portion
of nitric acid,
ammonia and
organic matters, gathered in
its
descent.
* Note. It may be objected that alcohol is a medicinal substance, but as alcoholic solutions yield unchanged the drug held in solution, there is no evidence of
chemical transformation.
HOMa:orATUlC' THAKMACOFCEIA.
23
Kiver and lake waters contain a large proportion of substances in

solution, both organic
becomes necessary
in
and inorganic.
With such a varying nature
pharmacy
water that has been deprived
to use
it
of all extraneous matters.
from the ordinary drug store for the
It should not be obtained
reason that
furnished from an impure
it is
still,
matters have been distilled from time to time.
from which various
Moreover
repeat-
it is
edly exposed to an atmosphere laden with floating drug particles and
chemical vapors
solved in
many
thus in time
substances will have been dis-
pharmaceutical use.
totally unfitting it for
it,
good
can be procured by subjecting ordinary water to distillation
article
The
in a glass retort.
and
retort should be partly filled with water,
placed over the flame of an alcohol lamp.
After the air
is
expelled
and the vapor passes over, the junction of the retort and receiver
should be closed with a lute of plaster of Paris.
The
receiver should
be surrounded with cloths constantly wetted with cold water, so as to

favor condensation.
over.
as
The
It is well to reject the first distillate that passes
And the operation,

appears, exceedingly tedious and unsatisfactory.
novice, with improvised apparatus, will
simple as
it
Practically, the purest water in the world is that obtained in
an open
space during a rain storm by collecting in clean glass or earthenware

dishes, after
it
readily given
has been raining ten or fifteen minutes.

oft",
if there
are any absorbed^
may
be performed with
are
and the other impurities
are far less noticeable than in the product of a small
cate chemical tests
The gases
it,
still.
especially
Even
if it is
deli-
heated
before bottling.
This
Alcohol {Speci^c gravity, 81.7)
contains but a small per cent, of
water, having been rendered nearly anhydrous by rectification.

attracts water
from the atmosphere
it
Fusil
oil,
is
it
should be kept in a glass stop-
pered bottle in which the stopper has been accurately ground.

centage of water
As
The per
easily obtained with the alcoholmeter.
[amylic alcohol), produced by distillation,
is
detected by a
small quantity of a solution of nitrate of silver added to the suspected

alcohol,
which
is
then exposed to bright sunlight for twenty-four hours;
at the expiration of that time,
if
fusil oil is present, it will
have been
precipitated as a black powder.
obtained by mixing together equal parts of alcohol and distilled water.

Dilute
Alcohol
Is
Water should not be used for the permanent solution of drugs as it

is prone to many changes and alterations, such as the absorption of
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gases, development of
there are substances
Decomes necessary
combining
" alcohol" in this
opathic alcohol.
gr.,
in
water only, therefore
''
it
to prepare all such, first with water, afterward
and such as
gr. 81.7,
that are soluble
aqueous tincture with dilute alcohol.
this
The word
But
vegetable organisms, (confervse), etc.
work
refers, always, to
29.)
a grade of sp.
Pharmacy
usually purchased at the
is
(See page
as
Homoe-
Dilute alcohol " refers to the grade 92 to 94 sp.
obtained by adding an equal amount of distilled water to the
grade "alcohol."
Ether. This
is
not as reliable a vehicle as we could desire, since
when kept
to chemical alterations
is liable
for a length of time, but as
water there are medicinal agents that only yield their
in the case of
virtues to
it
etlier.
However, the
list is
very small.
THE TRITURATE.
This division of the menstrua
limited to a single substance,
is
namely,
Sugar of Milk. This
is
made from
the
whey
of milk
manufactured in Switzerland and the Bavarian Alps.

in this country in the
and
chiefly
is
It is received
form of crystalline cylinders, the axis being a
cord or stick upon which the crystals have been deposited.
should be exercised
whether
it is
free
sophistication
is
when procuring
from starch,
its
it
in
powder form
most frequent adulteration.
present a blue color will be at once apparent.

is
to ascertain
This
readily detected by adding a few drops of tincture of
iodine to a solution of the suspected substance, when,
adulteration
Care
if
starch
is
Another very frequent
sulphate of lime, (gypsum or plaster of Paris).
It
may
be detected frequently by the smell, but certainly by dissolving about

a teaspoonful in a pint of hot water.
The lime
will
remain as a white
sediment.
COLLECTION OF PLANTS AND TREATMENT OF DRUGS.

It is of
importance that each and every plant should be gathered
only from those localities to which
regard should be paid as to

habitat
is
in dry soil, will
a moist or wet one, and
its
it
is
indigenous, and a certain
surroundings.
Thus, plants whose
have their virtues modified when growing in

vice versa.
If
accustomed
to hilly or
moun-
tainous situations their toxical properties will be changed by transplanting

or tree
them
to the
low lands, while a tropical or semi-tropical plant
becomes greatly modified in a temperate climate.
Again,
those species flourishing upon calcareous or magnesian soil will have
HOMCEOPATHIC PHARMACOPOEIA.
their properties lessened
when
25
cnltivated in rich loam, and should
they in a state of nature i)refer sunny slopes, their virtues will deteriorate in shady situations.
It is
seldom that
parts of a plant are equally
all
ricli
same
in llie
qualities or quantities, therefore certain parts are used to the exclu-
sion of the rest
in
more valuable, in another the

be. These in turn vary in
times and seasons, and certain i-ules are necessary
one the bark
is
the
leaves, flowers, or fruit, as the case

efficacy at different
to be observed, so that collections
each
is
at its height.
This rule
is
may
may
be made when the activity of
observed in
all
parts of the world
from which vegetable drugs are exported, and that the same may
apply
in
the case of our indigenous plants, the following
dations are
If the
ing
is
made
whole plant
when
recommen-
is
to be used, the
most favorable time
for gather-
this is partly in flower, partly in seed.
Should the leaves be the part desired, they should be taken just
before, or during the early part of the flowering time, with the exception
however of biennial
formation of the flower,
When
plants,
is
when
the second spring, during the
the proper time.
flowers only are required, the collection should be
made when
these are partly in bud, partly expanded.

ISeeds
and
fruits should be
plucked when fully
ripe,
although there
are exceptions to this rule.
Bulbs are ready to gather as soon as the

usually
when
new one
is
perfect
this is
the leaves begin to decay.
Bark ought
dead
to be stripped off late in the autunni, rejecting
epidermis, decaying tissue and portions infested by insects.
Body wood
is
to be cut in the first days of spring before the sap rises,
the tree being neither very young or very old.
It should be reduced
to chips, shavings or sawdust, the tools being free

If the
young shoots are the necessary
early in the
part, the
from rust or grease.
most suitable time
autumn and should be taken only from a vigorous
is
speci-
men.
autumn
obvious; when
Boots are only to be gathered in the

fallen.
The reason
for this is
after the leaves
have
the foliage
most
is
abundant, the juices rapidly pass through the root and ascend to
and at the same time a large proportion is

diverted in the formation of woody tissue. But when the leaves have
fallen and growth has nearly ceased, the unemployed fluids accumucirculate in the leaves,
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late at tbe roots
and
The converse
in the bark.
is.
true of the leaves,
when the root is least so.

should be made during the prevalence
since they are most valuable
No
collection
season, for the reason that the
not secreted as they are
when
of a long wet
oils, resins, volatile principles, etc.,
are
the atmospheric state is otherwise.
In regard to the alkaloids, as well as some chemical substances, the

processes by which these are obtained are too difficult, complicated and
expensive for the physician or pharmacist to engage in
made by a manufacturing chemist
they are
cient guarantee for their worth
Animal matters
of
the fact that
good repute
is sutii-
and purity.
are usually obtainable in a state of purity, but very
old specimens ought always to be rejected as they are either inert or

greatly deteriorated.
The most convenient form

cipitated,
in
which the metals are used
is
the pre-
and one readily obtainable.
TREATMENT OF DRUGS.
All substances used in medicine require a reduction to the commi-
nuted form previous to undergoing the different processes by which
made
they are
and not in the granular or powdered
the opportunity for adulteration
is
especially the
These should be procured whole
case in dried vegetable specimens.

possible,
This
to yield their inherent virtues.
is
very
state.
much
In the
tirst
if
place
increased and generally
improved, and in the second, volatile matters, upon which the character of the
drug depends, are dissipated, the remainder being either
weakened or wholly
greatly
but these are of

It is
sufficient
inert.
weight to
There are other potent reasons,
commend
themselves.
recommended that specimens be converted
triturations as soon as
it
is
into tinctures. or
possible, in order that nothing be lost
either by age or decomposition, but
if
delay
is
unavoidable, a proper
attention should be paid towards wrapping, boxing and placing in a

cool, dry place, until
such time as
may be convenient for their prepara-
tion.
pounded in
and
animal
crystalline
the mortar,
the same is true of most
and
substances. During this process a dust may arise, composed of very fine
particles of the drug, which irritates the eyes and nostrils the latter
should have one or two folds of a handkerchief tied loosely over them,
the operator at the same time standing with his back to a current of
Dried
roots, herbs, or flowers are sufficiently brittle to be
air.
The
top of the mortar should be covered with a clean loose cloth
allowing a sufficiently large hole in the centre for the pestle.
When a
IlOMCEOl'ATIllC
THARMACOrCElA.
powder gathers
certain anioiiiit of
in the mortar,
27
it
should be emptied
out, as the action of the pestle is hindered by its presence.
Camphor
in its natural state
powder, but this

are added
readily accomplished wlien a few drops of alcohol
is
may
it
also be obtained in this
form by precipitating
from an alcoholic solution with successive portions

rating the precipitate on a
Some
gum
of the
an even
of reduction to
is difficult
filter,
and then drying
it
of water, sepa-
it.
and
resins aie but slightly soluble in alcohol
should therefore be treated with dilute alcohol, in which they are

readily soluble.
Plants should be thoroughly dusted witli a cloth, freed from webs,

insects,
and cocoons, as well as any
soil
adhering to the roots and then
rapidly waslied.
THE TKEPARATION OF DllUGS TRITURATIONS.

Trituration
is
that process by which the drug particles are
further broken up and isolated.
an inert substance,
viz.,
This
is
sugar of milk,
still
accomplished by means
of
being mainly employed in
it
the case of metals, a majority of chemical salts and dried vegetable

substances.
There are two scales of attenuation recognized, centesimal and dec-
Hahnemann,
imal, the former having been instituted by

l)r. Ilering.
Whenever a
of the scale, the centesimal
always designated by the
The preparation
the latter by
trituration is alluded to without mention

is to
be understood, the decimal being
Roman numeral
of a trituration
upon
x.
tlie
centesimal scale
is
accom-
plished as follows
The drug,
previously reduced to a fine powder,
proportion of one part to
ninety-nine of
is
wêighed in the
sugar of milk, (grains,
scruples or drachms, according to the quantity desired).

in a mortar, one-third of the sugar of
oughly mixed with
it,
Placing this
milk (already weighed),
is
thor-
submitting the two substances to a circular
grinding motion under the pestle for six minutes
from the sides of the mortar and from
it is
then scraped
off the pestle wîth
a spatula,
repeating the motion for another six minutes, after which the powder
is
scraped again to the center of the mortar.
sugar of milk
is
now mixed
with
it,
The second
and the
third of the
trituration proceeded
with, twice, as before, at the end of which the third and remaining
sugar of milk
is
added and the process repeated, and the grinding
of the portion continued one hour

first trituration.
from the beginning.
This
is
the
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The second
mixing
part of the
first
trituration
same manner
so on with the higher, and proceeding in exactly the
as with the
and
a mortar with ninety-nine parts of sug-ar of milk, and
in
it
made by taking one
is
first
The
trituration.
third
is
made from one
part of the
second, and in the same way as the preceding trituration.

Triturations upon the decimal scale are
made
ner, with the exception, however, that the scale
one hundred.
Ten
man-
in a similar
is
ten Instead of
parts of the crude pulverised drug are triturated
with thirty parts of sugar of milk twice for six minutes, scraping
together each time as directed under the centesimal scale
another thirty parts of sugar of milk
then add
proceed as before and mix
another thirty parts of sugar of milk, triturating as before directed.
This
is
the
first
decimal trituration marked
with ten grains of the

of sugar of milk
Ix.
The second
These are prepared in
For
is
and three
written 3x.
TINCTURES.
several ways
this process the plant should be fresh
and
ver>^
Cutting that portion of the plant directed for use into very
small pieces,
it is
bruised to pulp in a mortar, then enclosed in a loose
muslin bag. and subjected to great pressure as in a screw press.

expressed juice
is
to be
mixed with an equal
which time
it is filtered
and
ready for use.
is
not yield their active principles with
The
part, by weight, of alco-
end of
All succulent plants do
and allowed to stand in a cool place for eight days,
hol,
The
this gives the second trituration, written 2x.
times thirty parts of sugar of milk, and
juicy.
made
triturated with three times thirty parts
first
third is prepared with ten parts of the second trituration
Exprtssion.
is
the] juice,
at the
m which cases expres-
sion is not of value.
Another method of making a tincture by expression
The
to plants less rich in juices.
weighed.
The
plant
The
is
is
one adapted
portions required are minced and
dilute alcohol necessary is two-thirds of this weight.
then bruised in the mortar, adding from time to time a
small portion of the alcohol, until the contents of the mortar have
assumed a pasty consistence the remainder of the alcohol is now

added and thoroughly mixed, and the whole submitted to pressure as
;
in the former instance.

for
a week, and then
Maceraiwn.
it
If
The
tincture
is
then bottled, allowed to stand
filtered.
the substance is not in thin, frail leaves or fibres,
should be coarsely powdered, in a clean mill or mortar
ing thinly, chipping or mincing finely,
is fully
(iron).
Shav-
as serviceable as pow-
HOMOEOPATHIC PHARMACOPCEIA.
After this reduction
dering.
it is
29
covered with a certain quantity of
alcohol, dilute alcohol, or water, according to specific directions, for
from one
to
the drug.
The time required depends on
two weeks.
If
compact,
solid,
two weeks are required.
the nature of
heavy, hard, dry, of slow growth,
from
If light, porous, fibrous, quite free
etc.,
resin-
ous principles, requiring aqueous solvent, gummy, fresh, etc., one week
A little dilute alcohol should be added to the
will answer.
required
when water
is
the solvent, as a preservative.
the alcohol before adding to an aqueous solvent.
complete,
filter
full
amount
Always
When
dilute
maceration
is
with paper, and bottle.
saturated tincture
A certain amount of
is
a saturated solution of the active principles.
prepared drug
may
be divided into four parts, or
more, and one-fourth the solvent required for the whole amount
used to macerate the
on
first part.
to another fourth, to
After the usual time,
macerate
it
decanted
is
Continuing through the
full time.
four parts there remains a tincture less in quantity, but of very great
Continue the process by throwing away the debris of the
strength.
first
of the series
By
each time.
and adding a fresh quantity
this
formula the drug debris
for the last maceration,
may
be utterly exhausted.
Percolation. In the larger pharmacies percolation

used.
A percolator is
extensively
is
a hollow, glass or tinned-metal cylinder, with a
At
funnel at the lower end.
the junction of the cylinder and funnel
Upon
a false bottom consisting of a colander, or coarse sieve.
is
is laid
its
thin muslin,
and
this
then a light layer of the drug, (reduced with
solvent to a thin paste, in a mortar), followed by the remainder as
soon as the
mass.
first
portion
The solvent
is
is
evenly placed.
muslin cloth covers the
then poured on in divided quantities.
If skill-
fully performed, it will slowly trickle through, usually exhausting the
drug before the
last portion
has reached the funnel.
clean lamp-
chimney makes a very convenient percolator for small quantities.

Oo/or. Tinctures vary in their color in proportion to the amount
of chlorophyl in the plant.
of production occasions
some
Condition of the drug, especially barks and resins, modify
variation.
it.
The method
In this work the color which
The
may
be expected, in the
common
and other inert organic matters,

are removed by simple chemical agencies, by some pharmacists, pro-
tinctures,
is
given.
chlorophyl,
ducing colorless tinctures.

Aqueous Solution. The basis for
all
solutions of chemical substances,
(denoted in Homoeopathic literature by the word " crude,")

drug, (solid, or liquid
if
that
is its
normal condition).
The
is
the pure
first
dilu-
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tion is a solution
made with
nine, (decimal), or one to ninety-nine, (centesimal).
uation (dec.) or second centesimal
(sp. gr. 82),
The
third atten-
may
be made with the addition of

Next higher with dilute alcohol,
a small amount of dilute alcohol.
but alcohol,
one to
distilled water, in the proportion of
should never be used until the
fifth
decimal,
and is then of doubtful utility as compared with the dilute.

The ''mother tincture'^ of a solid, soluble chemical, (insolubles have
no tincture,) is a saturated solution, that is, all that the menstruum will
The
dissolve.
fifth
decimal and third centesimal triturations of drugs,
soluble or insoluble,
may be
transferred to water, and never under
these attenuations unless the crude drug
few "chemical " tinctures are
was very
made with
soluble in water.
Ferrum mur.
alcohol, as
DILUTIONS.
means of attenuating tinctures and solutions, and is carried on upon both the decimal and centesimal scales.
When it is
desired to attenuate or dilute liquid medicines upon the decimal scale,
one part of the tincture or solution is mixed with nine of the vehicle
This
is
water, dilute alcohol or alcohol. This is strongly shaken or succussed

from one hundred to two hundred times, in a vial, which then contains the
first
uration."
attenuation, called " dilution" to distinguish from
One
part of this
and succussed as
tion.
is
mixed with nine parts
of the vehicle
before, being then the second attenuation or dilu-
The process may be
carried to whatever degree
is
is
mixed
with nine parts by weight of distilled water, and succussed in a

If the triturated
insoluble, the transfer to dilution
The centesimal
transfer
is
vial,
drug was soluble in water, the transfer
can take place with any attenuation. But

decimal or third centesimal.
To
desired.
transfer triturations to dilutions, one part of the triturate
as before.
''trit-
but
if
little
must not take place before the
(See above, under ''Mother
the
soluble, or if
same process
fifth
tincture.''^)
as decimal, substituting
ninety-nine for nine parts of water.
There are three grades of attenuations known,
and higher or highest.
The low comprises
the
viz.:
The
first six
low, high,
attenuations,
the second includes the thirtieth and two hundredth, and the third
above the second
class.
These divisions have a general acceptance.
Machinery has been employed to

higher dilutions, by Drs.
As
own prescriptions,
all
facilitate the preparation of the
Dunham, Fincke, Swan, Skinner and
others.
PRESCRIPTIONS. DISPENSING.
is in most cases the dispenser of his
he is rarely called upon to write them. But as
the HomiiRopathic physician
31
and occasions wlien this becomes necessary, it is well

to observe certain rules, which guide the profession at large. In the
lirst place, it should be remembered that there are often a number of
varieties as well as species of a plant, and in such cases it is importhere are times
Thus
tant to give the specific as well as the generic name.
torium perfoliatum, eupatorium purpureum

bis sativa
boletus
allium cepa, allium sativa
laricis,
cannabis indica, canna-
cicuta virosa, cicuta maculata
The common
boletus luridus, etc.
should not be written, as these differ in different
The same
fusing extent.
it
is
called for, as there are
name
a con-
localities, to
is
For instance,
intended.
not sufficient to write calcarea unless oxide of calcium in
it is
but
or popular
good when prescribing minerals,
rule holds
metals, etc., unless the unmodified radical
ural state
Eupa-
numerous combinations
its
nat-
of lime
should appear as calcarea phos., calcarea carb., calcarea iodide,
according as the phosphate, carbonate or iodide
is
desired.
Compounds
must be spelled out wholly, as any conthe words arseniate and arsenite will leave the constitution
of arsenious or arsenic acids

traction of
of the drug in doubt.
Physicians will abbreviate the specific name, and hence, some rule
must be adopted
where
may
it
following
which
to distinguish
The
indicate two.
best rule applicable to the case
Every contraction of a name which may end
understood as an
ate salt.
Of course,
radical, (base), then it refers to the
rea phos. refers to the phosphate.

or
more
salts of the radical
be spelled out
resulting
acid,
and
meant by the contraction
salt is
there
ite salt.
In
all
is
no
ate salt of the
given
Example, as above, calca-
cases where there are two
and similar acids the
ite
and ide name must
of calcarea with phosphor^c acid, phosphoro?/^'
with sulphur alone.
This rule has the following prominent exception

chlorine, iodine,
ceded by
the
ite is
Calcarea phosphi/e, calcarea sulpiride; the three forms
from a union
{ide)
if
is
in ate or
bromine and
Contractions of
fluorine, (the halogens),
liydr-o or not, refer to ide salts.
whether pre-
Merc. iod. or Merc, hydriod.
The \odate must be spelled out.

Immediately following the name of a medicine is the form.
refers to iodide of mercury.
tincture,
it
is
expressed by the
alphabet, thus, aconite nap.
^,
twenty-first
letter
the Greek
of
represents aconite tincture
If the
if
a dilu-
tion is required, sulphur 3x, sulphur 6x, sulphur 30, sulphur 200 or cc,
respectively denote the third decimal, sixth decimal, thirtieth centes-
imal,
and two hundredth centesimal, attenuations of sulphur.
In prescribing a trituration, the abbreviation "trit." follows the
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degree and scale, as podophyllum 3x
The
trituration of podophyllum.
appended.
etition, etc.,
amount required
total
Medicine prepared for
Homoeopathic uses
mix a
certain
number
is
dispensed
The
consists in
Of
these, the patient
of drops in half a tumbler of
Another and more port-
water, a teaspoonful to be taken as directed.
means
then to be
Liquids, powders, and pellets or globules.
necessarily dispensed in vials or bottles.
directed to
able
is
should occupy a space by themselves.
in three forms, viz.:

first is
signifying the third decimal
Directions as to the quantity at a dose, frequency of rep-
Dispensing.
is
trit.,
mixing the same relative proportion
in a four
or six ounce bottle, with directions to take a tea- or tablespoonful at
the ne cessary intervals.
Powders consist
triturations, or sugar of
milk on which the dilution has been poured
of the triturations, tincture
and evaporated. Pellets or globules vary in size from a millet seed to

one third of an inch in diameter, numbered according to size, from
six to eighty. They are composed of pure cane sugar, are very absorbent, soluble in water, insoluble in alcohol. They are medicated by
saturating with the tincture or dilution, but not dissolving them, as
too
much
The
liquid will do,
if
tincture trituration
in convenient form, but
above the tincture.
there is water present.

is
sometimes used in dispensing the tincture
beyond
this it has
nothing to recommend
For instance, two ounces
of sugar of milk are
placed in a mortar, and one ounce of the tincture poured over
whole, rubbed to an even mass,
is
When dry, and rubbed
even powder, a second ounce of tincture

Dilutions
may
after
which
it.
is
may
poured upon
the
and grinding
it,
to
an
and the
be bottled for use.
also be dispensed in sugar of
liquid in the scale proportion,
it
then allowed to dry, covered with
paper to prevent the collection of dust.
same process repeated,
it
milk, by adding the
until dry
or thoroughly
incorporated with a spatula, on a glass oi porcelain slab.
ITOMGi:OPATniC
PHARMACOPCEIA.
33
SPECIAL PHARMACY.
ABELMOSCHUS .MOSCHATUS.
MOSCIIATUS.
MUSK PLANT.
This evergreen shrub grows in Egypt, and the East and West
Indie
The best seeds come from Martinique. The seeds are about
the size of flax seed, grayish-brown in color, striated, kidney-shaped,
possess an odor similar to that of musk and have a pungent spicy taste.
On account of the resemblance the odor bears to musk, the seeds of
this plant are sometimes employed in the adulteration of that article.
.
Active principles. Not analyzed.

Part used. The seeds.
Form of preparation. Tincture made by macerating one part of

the dried seeds, with five of dilute alcohol, for two weeks. Filter.
ABIES
CANADENSIS.
HEMLOCK SPRUCE.
This well known evergreen is found in rocky and mountainous situations in the northern states and British provinces. It attains a
height of sixty or seventy feet, with a diameter of one, two or three
feet.
The trunk is straight and covered with a rough bark, used in
tanning, and contains a resinous juice. The foliage is delicate, half
an inch or more in length, and arranged in opposite rows upon a central stem.
The cones are small and situated at the extremities of the
smaller branches.
Active principles. Kesin, volatiJe oil of hemlock spruce, Canada
!
pitch, tannic acid.
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Part used. The bark and young buds.
Form
made by macerating one
of preparation. Tincture
two of alcohol for two weeks, and
part with
filtering.
ABIES
NIGRxl.
BLACK SPRUCE. DOUBLE SPRUCE.

This tree flourishes in the northern portions of this country, sometimes constituting whole forests, and frequently reaching a height of
seventy or eighty feet. The head or top is pyramidal in shape, with
dark green leaves, densely arranged, and half an inch or more in
length. The flowers occur in bunches and are yellow in color. The
cones are drooping, small, and vary from one to two inches long.
All parts contain an abundance of resinous matter.
Active principles. Resin and gum, astringent principles
" essence
of spruce."
Part used. The young branches.
Form
of preparation.
Tincture made by macerating one part with
two of alcohol for two weeks, and
filtering.
ABSINTHIUM.
ARTEMESIA ABSINTHIUM, WORMWOOD.
New England states and stony,

parts of Europe, afford this plant. It prefers a
stony soil and a dry, sunny exposure. The stem is two or three feet
liigh, longitudinal, furrowed and expanding at the summit into a pannicle, upon which are disposed a number of round, brownish-yellow
flowers. The lower portion of the stem sends up annual shoots each
year, that perish every winter. The leaves are grayish-green above,
silvery gray beneath. The whole plant is hairy, has a strong odor and
possesses an intensely bitter taste. There are other varieties of the
species, such as the A. vulgaris, A. abrotanum, etc., with which the
The mountainous
soils in many
districts of the
rocky
above must not be confounded.

Active principles. Source of absinthe, bitter principle (absinthin).
wormwood, resin.
Part used. The fresh, young
oil
of
leaves, small branches
and
flowers,
gathered in July or August.
Form
two
of alcohol,
two weeks, then
filtering.
part with
Color of tincture, deep yel-
lowish-brown.
ACALYPHA
INDICA.
This is a plant somewhat resembling the nettle,

India, in the neighborhood of Calcutta.
Part used.
Form
and growing
in
The whole plant.
two of alcohol and
filtering.
part with
HOMCEOPATHIC
PHARMACOPCEIA.
85
ACIDUM ACETICUM.
ACETIC ACID.
H3
C4
O3,
and Gi Hi
04,( crystal zed.)

i
found to exist in the juices of many fruits and plant

minute quantity in certain animal riuids. It may be
obtained by several methods but the source from which it is chiefly
This acid
and
is
also in
obtained in pyroligneous acid, a substance obtained in the destructive

To purify it, it is submitted to a series of prodistillation of wood.
cesses which give a colorless, volatile liquid having a pungent smell
and corrosive taste. This is known as glacial acetic acid.
Form
of preparation. Dilution with distilled water or alcohol.
ACHILLEA MILLEFOLIUM.
YAKROAV MILLEFOIL.
of frequent occurrence in fields, etc., in Europe and in
from the New England states westward to the Pacific
ocean, and northward to Arctic America. It is about a foot high, with
a furrowed branching stem, the leaves being parted in so great a
number of divisions and subdivisions as to suggest the name of mille-
This plant
is
this country
foil.
The whitish
topped coronet.
taste
and
or rose colored flowers are arranged in a dense flatand flowers have an aromatic, pungent
Tlie leaves
smell.
Dctive principles. Volatile oil, achilleic acid achillein.

Part used. The fresh plant.
Form
of
preparation.
Tincture
then adding an equal part of alcohol.

alcohol, one week and filter.
made by expressing
the juice,
Maceration in two parts dilute
ACONITUM NAPELLUS.
monk'shood, wolf'sbane. common aconite.
The home of this plant is upon the high mountain ranges of central
and southern Europe, and Asia. It is also cultivated as an ornament.
The root is spindle shaped, about the thickness of a finger at the top
and tapers downward about three inches, giving off fleshy fibres.
When full grown there are usuftlly two roots, by which th6 stems are
sustained, the other and younger furnishes those of the following
year. The stems from two to six feet high are round, smooth and
upright, with alternate, very deeply divided, dark green leaves. The
flowers are large, violet in color, and arranged upon a spike-like
raceme at the summit of the plant. The upper petal of these is helmet-shaped and bears a certain resemblance to a monk's cowl. The
fruit is a pod-like capsule. The cultivated plant should not be used in
pharmacy.
Form
made by
expressing the juice from
the fresh plant beginning to flower, then adding an equal part of

alcohol, then
filter.
Tincture dark brown color, bitter taste.
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Tincture
alcohol.
(Tinct. aeon, rad.)
part of the fresh root in two of
Filter.
Varieties. Aconite feros. This is the hish root of India, and considered to be the most virulent of all the species growing upon the sides
of the Himalayas. The aconite arthosa possesses the least acrid properties of any.
A. lycoctorum
is still
another variety.
Active principles. Aconitine, C37 H40 Oio, is the alkaloid from the
root of the A. napellus. It is white, uncrystallizable, without odor,
and having a
bitter acrid taste, with a tingling sensation.
It is a
powerful poison, the one-fiftieth of a grain having repeatedly destroyed
dogs and other animals.
Aconella, a narcotic principle supposed to
be isomorphous or identical with aconitine.
Aconitic acid.
Forms of preparation. Trituration. Alcoholic solution for dilutions.
ACTEA SPICATA.
HERB CHRISTOPHER. BANEBERRY
A perennial
herbaceous plant growing in rocky woods and mountainous regions of all parts of Europe, being two or more feet in height.
The root bears some resemblance to that of the black hellebore, is
black externally, yellow and spongy within. The stem divides into
two branches, one of which bears leaves only, the other, leaves and
flowers. The latter are small, whitish and clustered upon a terminal
raceme. The fruit is a black berry occurring in clusters upon a
slender pedicel. The root is gathered in May.
Form of preparation. Tincture made by macerating one part with
two parts
dilute alcohol, for
two weeks, then
filtering.
^SCULUS HIPPOCASTANUM.
HORSE CHESTNUT.
This tree
a native of northern Asia, but has adapted itself to the

climate of Europe and this country, and reaches a height of forty to
fifty feet.
The leaves are digitate, leaflets obovate serrate, and of
a dark green color. The flowers are pink and white, mottled with red
and yellow, their huge pyramidal masses making a striking contrast
to the dark green foliage. The fruit contains a large mahoganycolored nut, having a paler, roughened oval hilum. The kernel
is white with a bitter, astringent taste.
The Turks feed them to
broken winded horses, and a superior quality of starch is said to be
prepared from them.
Active principles.
Bitter principle esculin, (fixed oil by ether),
is
fraxin and quercitron.
Esculic acid, esculetin.
Part used. Fresh kernel, with

principle not proven.
shell.
Bark contains a
distinct
HOMCEOPATHIC PHARMACOPCEIA.
Form
in
macerated two weeks
of preparation. Tincture of fresh nut,
two parts of
dilute alcohol
and
filtered.
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Triturations are better.
^SCULUS GLABRA.
FETID
Oil
OHIO BUCKEYE.
native to the bottom lands of the Ohio river and

The bark exhales a
its tributaries, and is one of several varieties.
The leaflets are
fetid odor which is characteristic of this variety.
arranged in fives, are oval or oblong, and vary from one to three
inches long. The flowers are small, yellowish white, and somewhat
irregular. The fruit is about three-quarters of an inch long, covered
with prickles when young, smooth later, and contains a small nut that
This large tree
is
is
poisonous to cattle.
Part used. The whole
Form
two of
fruit.
made by macerating one part with

A trituration is made with the nut entire.
dilute alcohol. Filter.
^THUSA CYNAPIUM.
COMMON ^THUSA.
FOOL'S PARSLEY.
GARDEN HEMLOCK.
An
annual plant growing abundantly in old gardens and rich fallow

soils, receiving the name of fool's parsley from a remote resemblance
to that plant. It is distinguished from the garden parsley or the chervil, by the sickening odor developed when rubbing or bruising its
The
flowers of the fool's parsley are whitish, those of the

parsley yellow. It grows about two feet high, with a green
striated stem.
The leaves are arranged in numerous wedge shaped
segments, three long pendulous leaflets arising from the base of the
leaves.
common
flower.
Part used. The entire flowering plant.
Form
made by macerating one week, one
part with two of alcohol and filtering. Color of tincture light brownish-yellow taste and smell nauseating.
;
AGARICUS MUSCARIUS.
FLY AGARIC.
BUG AGARIC.
This fungus inhabits Europe, Asia, northern America, some parts

and Kamschatka, being most abundant in the last named
country. The pileus, or top of the fungus is from three to seven
inches broad, convex in shape, and varying in color from blood red to
orange, occasionally it is white green or brown. They are usually
gathered in the autumn and carefully dried, the small deep colored,
warty specimens being considered the most poisonous. It is used by
the natives of northern Asia and Kamschatka for the intoxication it
produces, ending in unconsciousness.
of Scotland
Active principles. Alkaloid muscaria.
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Pari used. Tlie fungus.
Form
preparatiou. Tincture
ol"
one part with two of
alcoliol,
and
made by macerating two weeks,
filtering.
yellow, nauseating odor, and acrid burning
Color of tincture, reddish

taste.
AGNUS CASTUS.
VITEX AGNUS CASTUS.
A bush from three to live feet high, growing along the shores of the
Mediterranean, and the coasts of Provence and Greece, and preferring
a sandy or rocky soil. The flowers are numerous, and blue or purple
in color the berries are small, blackish, and in shape and taste like
those of Cayenne pepper.
Part used. The ripe berries.
CHASTE TREE.
Form
made by macerating one week, one
part with two of dilate alcohol and filtering.
Tincture dark brown,
greenish color, spicy camphor-like taste.
AGAVE AMERICANA.
AMEIUCAN ALOE. MAGUEY. CENTURY PLANT.
This aloe is seen growing in Florida, Mexico and other portions of
America. It occurs in dry sandy soils where nothing but
Wlien the root or
cacti will grow, often attaining a great height.
leaves are wounded, a sweetish juice tiows out. This w^hen fermented
constitutes an intoxicating liquor called pulque.
stout hemp is
obtained from the leaves, and the white internal portion near the root
The whole plant resembles the aloe
is used for food by the natives.
family. The blossoms are said to appear but once in a hundred years.
tropical
Active principle. Volatile
oil,
gum-resin,
salts, silica.
Part used. The root and leaves.
Form
of preparation.
Tincture made by macerating one week, one
part with two of a very dilute alcohol

color,
and
filter.
Tincture pale stone
slightly spicy, bitterish taste.
AIJ.ANTHUS GLANDULOSA.
TREE OF HEAVEN.
A native of China and Japan, but extensively cultivated in tliis

country as a shade tree, frequently reaching a height of sixty feet.
The trunk is large and straight, and the boughs large and heavy. The
leaves are from three to five feet long, with ten to twenty pairs of
leaflets.
The flowers are greenish, arranged in compact panicles, and
exhale a most offensive odor.
Active principles. Pectin, bitter principle, oleo-resin, volatile oil.
H031CE0rATHlC PHAKMACOPCEIA.
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Part used. The bark and young flowers.
Form
of preparation.
Tincture made
by macerating two weeks, one
part with two of dilute alcohol, and tiltering.
ALCOHOL.
SPIRIT OF WINE.
C4
He O2
or
U Hs O+HO.
Alcohol is a product of the vinous fermentation, being generated

wnerever saccnanne vegetable juices are brought in contact with a
ferment at a certain temperature. The different liquors containing it
are named according to the substances producing it, as, wine when
from grapes, cider from apples, arrack from rice, etc. Alcohol is
obtained from the various fluids in which it is produced, by repeated
distillation, by which it is separated from water, fusil oil or " amylic
alcohol," and other foreign matters. This process is called rectification.
Alcohol is a colorless, transparent, limpid liquid, having a penetrating
odor, a burning taste, and a great attraction for water. It is very
inflammable and a ready solvent for a great many vegetable and
chemical substances.
ALCOHOL SULPHURIS.
LIQUOR LAMPADlI.
SULPHURETUM CAKBONEI.
CS2
Discovered by Lampadius in 1796. It is a thin, colorless, heavy

a penetrating offensive odor like that of sulphuretted hydrogen, of a sharp pungent taste, and of great refractive power, sp. gr.
L272. It readily evaporates in an earthen vessel surrounded with ice.
It is insoluble in water, but dissolves readily in alcohol. As its
preparation requires an iron retort and a blast furnace, directions are
fluid, of
omitted.
ALETRIS FARINOSA.
STAR GRASS.
As
COLIC ROOT.
the popular names of this plant are also applied to the helonias
dioica, there has been some confusion in regard to this plant. It is
therefore recommended that the opinion of scientific botanists be
obtained when this plant is used for medical purposes. It grows from
one to two feet high, being most abundant in the southern states,
where it is always found in dry, barren soil, and on sunny glades,
never existing in rich limestone or alluvial soil. It also exists in the
western states on hilly glades, or the open prairie. The leaves spring
from the root in a circle, and six to twelve in number, and spread out
on the ground in rays like a star. The root is small and black. The
stem is upright with remote scales, sometimes changing into leaves.
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The flowers are white, arranged upon a long, slender spike, and have
a mealy or dusty appearance upon their external surface.
Active principles.
Bitter extractive.
Part used. The root.
Form
made by macerating two weeks
one part with two of dilute alcohol, and
tiltering.
ALLIUM CEPA.
THE COMMON RED ONION.
the familiar garden esculent that has become diffused in
nearly all countries. Cultivation has produced a number of varieties,
but the red onion is the only one used in medicine. The bulb or root
is oval, round or flattened, being made up of a number of concentric
layers or tunics enveloped externally by a dry membranous covering.
The leaves are hollow, cylindrical and pointed, with a scape or stalk
rising from among them, bearing an embel of greenish flowers at its
summit. All parts of the plant possess a peculiar pungent odor which
is strongest in the bulb.
This
is
Active principles. Volatile
oil
and sulphuret of
allyl.
The root or bulb.

Form of preparation. Tincture made by macerating one week, one
Part used.
part with two of alcohol.
Filter.
AJ.LIUM SATIVUM.
GARLIC.
native of Sicily and the south of France, but cultivated in many

other countries. The root is composed of a number of small bulbs
arranged around the base of the stem. They are usually five or six in
number, each enclosed in a separate, white, delicate membrane, and
connected together. The leaves are long, flat, and cover the lower
part of the stem. The stem rises about two feet high and bears a
small white flower. The bulbs are oblong, white and fleshy internally,
with a strong disagreeable odor.
Active principles. Volatile oil, allyl and compounds, sulphur, allyllin, (obscure).
Part used. The fresh bulb.
Form
of preparation.
Tincture made by macerating one week, one
part with two parts of alcohol.
(Same as allium cepa.)
ALNUS RUBRA.
TAG ALDER.
An
indigenous shrub found growing in clumps or thickets along

swampy, marshy grounds. The stems are
the border of streams and
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numerous, mid vary from ten to fifteen feet in Iieight. Durinj? the
winter the shrub is covered with small cones. The flowers appear
quite large in the spring, and are of a reddish-green color. Alnin is
the alkaloid of this plant.
Active principles. Bitter extractive, tannic acid, alnin.

Part used. The bark.
Form
one part with two of dilute alcohol.
made by macerating two weeks,

Filter.
ALOES.
THE RESIN OF A TllOPICAL TREE.
This is the product of a plant growing at the Cape of Good Hope,
the East and West Indies, and the island of Socotra. It is procured
by cutting off the leaves and allowing the juice that flows from them
to collect in shallow vessels and evaporated to a solid mass. The concrete resin is exported in sheep or goat skins. The plant is usually
found growing on parched and sandy soil, usually at a great elevation.
There are several varieties from which the resin is obtained, each of
which is native to the locality in which the production takes place.
Thus we have the Socotrine, Barbadoes, Caballine, Cape and Hepatic
aloes. The first named variety is by far the best, and is the one used
in the Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia. It is received from the island of
Socotra, situated in the strait of Babel mandel, off the eastern coast
of Africa. It has a yellowish, or reddish brown color, a smooth
shining fracture, a slight odor, an exceedingly bitter taste, and when
powdered, a golden
color.
Active principles. Aloetin, aloin, two bitter resinous extractives.

Chrysatric acid, (aloetic acid).
Form
of preparation.- Trituration.
for seven days,
one troy ounce of resin in one and one-half pints of
dilute alcohol, to
tincture
is
Tincture made by macerating
which one half pint of
of a dark reddish
brown
distilled
water
is
color, with the taste
added.
The
and smell of
the aloes in a high degree.
ALSTONIA SCHOLARIS.
DITA SATIREEN.
This is a large tree growing in India, Malabar and the Phillipine
islands. It affords the bark known in commerce by the same name.
This is in pieces from three to six inches long, and more than a quarter
of an inch thick. These are firm in texture, either flat or curved,
brown in color, easily powdered, and quite bitter to the taste. The
hardened juice of the tree has been considered as a possible substitute
for gutta percha.
Active principle. Ditaine.

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Form
one part with
made by macerating
live of dilute alcohol,
and
for
two weeks,
liltering.
ALUMEN.
ALUM.
K, Al, 2S04, 12H2 O.
This is the crystallized double sulphate of aluminium'and potassium,
known as the potassa alum. xVnother alum salt is formed by combining
the sulphate of aluminium with sulphate of ammonium this is called
ammonia alum. The former is the one from which our provings are
made. It occurs already formed in volcanic rocks near Naples, along
the Rhine, in the island of New York and a number of other localities.
It is artificially prepared by calcining a slaty clay, dissolving in sulphuric acid, adding sulphate of potassium, and crystallizing. Alum is
a white, slightly efflorescent salt, having an acid, astringent taste.
:
Form
of preparation. Trituration of the crystals
tincture
is
a sat-
urated solution in distilled water.
ALUMINA.
OXIDE OF ALUMINIUM.
AI3O3
A substance very largely
distributed in nature, as clay, in combinawith

tion
other earths and metallic oxides. The mineral corundum,
and the ruby and sapphire are composed of pure alumina in combination with a little coloring matter. Clays and schists also contain it.
It is artilicially prepared by subjecting ammonia-alum to a strong calcining heat, or by precipitating-ammonia alum with an excess of
ammonia this is waslied, dried, and heated to a white heat, the residue
being alumina. It is a tine, soft, tasteless, white powder, insoluble in
water or alcohol, but absorbing water eagerly.
Form of preparation. Trituration. Fifth decimal in water.
;
AMBRA
GRISEA.
AMBERGRIS.
This substance is found floating in masses upon southern seas,
also obtained from the intestines of the sperm whale. In the
instances *in which it has been discovered in whales, they were
torpid, lean and sickly; the product being composed mainly of a
fatty substance similar to cholesterin, and is therefore considered to
be a morbid secretion from the liver.
It usually occurs in small
roundish balls, made up of concentric layers, having a grayish-brown,
sometimes blackish color, tra^versed by whitish or yellowish-red
streaks, and possesses an agreeable odor. It is of a waxy consistence,
softens with the heat of the hand, and is quite intiammable.
and
Active principle. Anibrein,a crystallizable fatty matter. Ambreic

acid.
Form
of preparation. Trituration.
Tincture, maceration of one
HOMCEOPATHIC rHAKMACOPfEIA.
part in ten of alcohol, two weeks or longer, possibly
Saturated solution in ether
reliable.
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some
heat.
Not
better.
is
AMBROSIA ARTEMESI^FOLIA.
RAGWEED, riGWEED.
This unsightly weed is about two or three feet high, growing in
gardens and lields, where it is very troublesome. The leaves are segmented acutely and parallel the terminal flowers are small, green
and barren, the axillary ones only being fertile.
;
Active principle.
Astringent principle not analyzed.
The entire plant.

preparation. Tincture made
Tart used.
Form
of
live of dilute]alcohol,
one week,
if
by macerating one part with
fresh.
Filter.
AMMONIACUM.
DOREMA AMMONIACUM.
sometimes called gum ammoniac, is the
AMMONIAC.
This resin,
product of a
bush growing in Persia and upon the sides of the Hindoo coast mountains.
When it is wounded, a milky juice flows out and hardens by
exposure.
It is reported that spontaneous exudation takes place
which concretes upon the bark. The resin is exported in small, round,
irregular pieces, and large masses. The former known as tears are
yellowish, opaque, brittle and whitish internally
the large masses
color,
are darker in
and in many instances contain impurities that
were gathered at the time of collection, on which account we should
use only the small, reddish-yellow or whitish granules, or tears. This
;
gum
has a
bitter, acrid taste, gives off
Active principle. Bassorin, volatile
Form
of
a garlic-like odor
oil,
preparation. Trituration.
dilute alcohol
weak
when burned.
peculiar resinous principle.
Tincture
by dissolving in
contains no bassorin.
AMMONIUM ACETICUM.
VCETATE or AMMONIA.
(Spiritus Mendereri.)
C2H3 03,NH4
an aqueous solution made when carbonate of ammonia
and dilute acetic acid are mixed together. It is a limpid, colorless,
odorless liquid, having a saline taste and very apt to decompose with
age. A solid form is obtained by the distillation of a mixture of
acetate of lime and powdered sal-ammoniac.
This
is
Forms
tion.
of preparation. Saturated solution for dilutions.
Tritura-
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AMMONIUM BENZOICUM.
BENZOATE OF AMMONIA.
C7 H5 O, (NH4 )0.
is made by dissolving benzoic acid in aqua ammonia and diswater, evaporating to concentration and allowing crystallization
to take place. This salt is in minute, white, thin, shining, four-sided
crystals, having the characteristic odor of the acid and a bitter balsamic taste. It evaporates when heated, the acid alone remaining
the same thing takes place during prolonged boiling.
This
tilled
Form
of preparation.
Solution
in water or alcohol to the point of
saturation.
AMMOXIUM BKOMIDUM.
BROMIDE OF AMMONIUM.
NH4
Br.
Bromine when dissolved in aqua ammoniae forms a yellow solution,

becoming a granular or. crystalline salt, according as it is evaporated
with constant stirring or simply concentrated to the point
In either case the salt is white, changing in time
by partial decomposition to a yellowish color, with liberation of
hydrobromic acid. To the taste it is saline and pungent, soluble in
water and alcohol, and sublimes when exposed to heat.
to dryness,
of crystallization.
Form
of
Saturated solution, for dilu-
tions.
AMMONIUM CARBONICUM.
(SESQUI)
CARBONATE OF AMMONIA.
2NH4 O, 3C02
This is a pungent, volatile salt, obtained by the sublimation of

muriate or sulphate of ammonia with chalk. The muriatic or sulphuric acid unites with the chalk and forms chloride or sulphate of
lime, while the carbonic acid, in combination with ammonia, is sublimed.
Coal-gas liquor and bone spirit, each of which contains
ammonia, also affords this salt. It is in white, hard masses, having a
fibrous texture, a sharp taste and an irritating, ammoniacal smell.
Form
or water for dilution.
Saturated solution in alcohol
Alcoholic solution
is
somewhat
stronger.
AMMONIUM CAUSTICUM.
LIQUOR AMMONIA FORTIOR.
NH3
obtained by the distillation of a mixture of chloride
slaked lime. It is manufactured on a large scale
from coal-gas liquor, which is distilled with milk of lime. In either
Tliis liquor is
of
ammonium and
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is made to enter into solution with dishaving been conducted through a series of carboys
arranged on the same plan as Woulff's bottles. This is done to purify
the gas from all extraneous matters. Liquor ammonia is an alkaline,
colorless, limpid liquid liaving a very acrid taste and an exceedingly
pungent, irritating smell.
It is very volatile, and loses ammonia
whenever the bottle containing it is opened. On no account should a
cork stopper be used, as the gas readily finds its way through the
process the ammoniacal gas
tilled water, after
pores of the cork.
Form of preparation. Attenuation with

made with water.
They may be
alcohol.
AMMONIUM CITRICUM.
CITRATE OF AMMONIA.
( NH4 )3 C6 H5 O7
This preparation is obtained
strong 'solution of ammonia.
Form
bv neutralizing
citric
acid with a
of preparation. Attenuation (1-9 or 1-99) in distilled water
for the first dilution, in dilute alcohol for the second,
and in alcohol
for the third.
AMMONIUM lODIDUM.
IODIDE OF AM3IONIUM.
NII4
Iodide of
ammonium is procured by dissolving iodide of potassium

of ammonium in boiling distilled water. On cooling a
and sulphate
small quantity of alcohol is added. The whole is then evaporated to

dryness, stirring constantly. It is a white, granular salt, when freshly
prepared, but changes in a few weeks to a yellowish tint.
Form
of preparation. Attenuation in distilled water for the first
dilution, in dilute alcohol for the second,
and
in alcohol for the third.
AMMONIUM MURIATICUM.
CHLORIDE OF AMMONIUM, SAL AMMONIAC.
NH4
Chloride of
CI.
ammonium is obtained mostly from
in the condensers at the gas works.
Bone
the liquor remaining
spirit also affords
it.
The
greater portion of this salt is imported from England, generally in a

pure condition, although it sometimes contains traces of iron. It
occurs in nature in volcanic districts, in plants, and in the water of
mineral springs. The pure salt is white, translucent, tough, fibrous,
and has a warm, saline taste, and is difficult to triturate in the usual
way.
Form
of preparation.
A boiling, saturated solution is made of
the
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salt,
and constantly
stirred while cooling.
as a fine granular powder,
which
is
It will
then be deposited
easy of trituration.
AMMONIUM NITRICUM.
NITRATE OF AMMONIUM.
NH4 N03
This
ate of
salt is
produced by the addition of dilute nitric acid to carbon-
ammonia,
until the reaction is neutral,
when
it is
According as the evaporation is hastened or retarded,

thread-like, or in the shape of prismatic crystals.
easily decomposes.
Form
of preparation.
Attenuation
it is
evaporated.
fibrous
When
and
heated
it
in distilled water for the first
dilution, in dilute alcohol for the second dilution,
and
in alcohol for
the third.
AMMONIUM FHOSPHORICUM.
PHOSPHATE OF AMMONIA.
NH4 )2 H r04
(
By
neutralizing phosphoric acid in solution, with a strong solution

of ammonia, concentrating by heat and crystallizing, this salt is
obtained. It is in the form of transparent, colorless crystals, soluble
in water, not at all in alcohol.
Form
of preparation. Attenuation in distilled water to the third
dilution, dilute alcohol for the fourth,
and
in alcohol for the fifth.
AMPELOPSIS QUINQUEFOLIA.
WOODBINE. AMERICAN IVY. VIRGINIA CREEPER.
This is a woody vine having a climbing, rooting stem, with dark,
autumn. It grows wild in
United States, climbing
or seventy-five feet, and supporting itself by
glossy, green leaves that turn crimson in the
woods and
thickets,
and
in all parts of the
often to a height of fifty

numerous radiating tendrils. The foliage is very luxuriant, often
covering the side of a building, old walls, etc The leaves are large
and digitate; the flowers are greenish or whitish, and occur in dividing clusters ; the fruit is a dark blue berry, somewhat smaller than a
.
pea,
and of an acrid
taste.
Part used. The fresh bark and young twigs.
Form
made by macerating for two weeks,
one part with two parts of dilute alcohol, then
filtering.
AMPHISBCENA VERMICULARIS.
A VENEMOUS TROPICAL SNAKE.
This ophidian
is
of frequent occurrence in the Brazilian forests,
and
4V
has the peculiarity of being able to move either forward or backwaid

as it may desire. It is about two feet in length, brownish in color on
the back and sides, pinkish-white on the belly. The head is small,
conical, and not to be distinguished from the neck the eyes are small
the jaws not dilatable the teeth are conical, curved, and separated
from each other. There are no scales, but the skin is divided into
quadrilateral portions arranged in rings around the body.
;
Part used.
Form
The
jaw containing the venom.
AMYGDALA AMARÊ AQUA.

BITTER ALMOND WATER.
This
is
an aqueous solution of the virtues contained in the kernel of

The tree from which the nut is obtained, grows
Morocco and northern Africa, and is about twelve or lifteen
the bitter almond.

chiefly in
feet high.
The
flowers are of a white or pale red color.
The
fruit
and contains a rough shell which encloses the

These latter are ovoid, covered with a brown skin
is similar to the peach,
kernel or almond.
and exceedingly bitter to the taste. They contain a peculiar principle

termed amygdalin, which gives rise to hydrocyanic or prussic acid in
the presence of water; also to oil of almonds, (hydride of benzoyl,
laurel
oil.)
Part used. The ripe kernels.
Form
of preparation.
An
a pound of bitter almonds.
ounce of alcohol, six pounds of water and

Macerate one week ana
filter.
This
is
attenuated with distilled water, dilute alcohol and alcohol.
AMYL
NITRIS.
NITRITE OF AMYL.
C5 Hii
NO2
An
amber-colored, exceedingly volatile liquid, having a very penecompared to that of ripe pears. It is procured
when a stream of nitrous acid gas is passed through amylic alcohol at
a temperature of 27 F., or by the action of nitric acid upon amylic
alcohol. In the former process it requires to be rectified and redistrating, peculiar odor,
tilled.
Form
of administration. Inhalation of the vapor, (a
few drops on a
handkerchief.)
AMYLAMINE CHLOROHYDRATE.
CHLORIDE OF AMYLAMINE.
C5 Hl3
NHCl
This substance is prepared by the action of chloride of phosphorus

upon amylic alcohol. It is exceedingly volatile, burns with a clear,
white flame and mixes readily with alcohol or ether.
Form
of administration. Inhalation of the vapor.
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ANACARDIUM ORIENTALE.
CASHEW NUTS. MALACCA BEAN. MAKKING-NUT-TIIEE.
large tree growing in Asia and the East Indies, bearing a resemblance to the walnut tree and containing an acrid milky juice. The
leaves are large, oval, obtuse and alternate. The flowers are rosecolored, and exhale a very fragrant odor. The frnit is pear-shaped,
acrid and astringent, and supports at its extremity, a grayish, kidneyshaped nut. The latter is furnished with two coats or envelopes, an
outer and an inner. In the interval between these there is contained
a quantity of black, oily, exceedingly acrid fluid, so caustic in its
effects that it produces an excoriated or blistered surface. The kernel
is almond-shaped, oily, white, and sweet to the taste.
The juice of
the nut and the milky fluid obtained from the tree by incision, are
sometimes used for marking linen

Active principles.
Part used.
Form
Anacardic acid, cardol
oil.
The juice contained between the shells of the nut.
one part of drug

taste
indelibly.
made by macerating
for
two weeks,
in five of alcohol. It is inodorous with acrid, burning
and deep brown
color.
Trituration
this
however, does not keep
well.
ANAGALLIS ARVENSIS.
SCARLET PIMPERNEL.
POOR MAN'S WEATHER GLASS.
trailing plant seen in fields, and growing along the

The square,
parts of this country and Europe.
branching stem varies in length from six to twenty inches, with
broad, ovate leaves placed upon pedicels longer than themselves. The
flowers are arranged upon opposite sides of the stem, are small, scarlet
This
is
an annual
roadsides in
all
in color and open at 8 A. m., closing dt 2

weather the petals do not open at all.
Active principles. Peculiar volatile
Part used The whole plant.

Form of preparation. Tincture
p.
m.
In
damp
or rainy
oil.
made by
expression to which
is
added an eqnal part of alcohol, or by macerating with two parts of

dilute alcohol,
two weeks
if
dry,
and
filtering.
ANATHERUM MURICATUM.
VETIVER OR VITI-VAYR..
A grass-like plant growing
in India, where it is quite common. The

spreading, and has a marked odor resembling myrrh,
which is due to a resin contained in it. Fancy baskets, toilet articles,
etc., are made from the root fibres, retaining their odor a long time.
The plant varies from three to six feet in height.
root
is fibrous,
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PHARMACOPOEIA.
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used. The entire plant.
Form
of preparation. Tincture, nriade by macerating one part in
five of alcohol,
two weeks, and
filtering.
AN'GELICA ARCHANGELICA.
GARDEN ANGELICA.
A plant found in northern Europe, Asia, Switzerland, the Pyrenees,

and
The
especially in Lapland.
root
is
It is also cultivated
on both continents.
large, fleshy, spindle-shaped, hairy, gray or
reddish in
and contains an amber-colored juice, has an agreeable, aromatic

odor, and a sweetish-bitter, musky taste. The stem is five feet or more
in height, hollow, grooved, jointed, purplish in color and branches
freely. The leaf stems are fistulous and the leaves arranged along
color,
the sides of a secondary leaf stem; are ovate-lanceolate, the terminal

one being three lobed.
The flowers are small, greenish- white or
yellow, and disposed in large rayed umbels. The fruit, or so-called
seeds ,are oval, rounded or notched, and ash-colored having a longitudinal furrow on one side.
Active principles.Volatile
oil, vblatile
acid (angelicic acid), three
distinct resins, a bitter principle.
Part used. The fresh root of the wild plant.
Form
of preparation.
one part in
Tincture made by macerating for two weeks,
five of alcohol,
and
filtering.
Spicy taste and odor, and
pale yellow color.
ANGELICA ATROPURPUREA.
MASTERWORT.
a small, indigenous variety of the angelicas, and is quite
and marshy woods of our northern and western
states.
The stem is dark purple in color, four or five feet high, and
about two in thickness. The leaves are similar to the A. archangelica.
The flowers are greenish white, and form hemispherical, terminal
clusters from six to eight inches in diameter. The root is purplish,
and similar to the last named variety. The entire plant has the same
aromatic odor as its European relative.
This
is
<jommon
in the fields
Active principles. Angelicic acid (sambulolic), volatile
oil, resins.
Part used. The fresh root.
Form
five of dilute alcohol.
part of dilute alcohol.
part in
Also by expression, juice mixed with equal

Filter.
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AKILINUM.
ANILINE.
C6
Hs NH2
An oily, colorless or reddish- brown organic alkaloid, obtained during

the distillation of coal tar. When treated with otlier chemicals it may
be made to assume the most brilliant reds, purples, greens, blues or
yellows, each and all of which are extensively used in dyeing. It is
also used as a substitute for flavoring extracts, for the detection of
cotton in fabrics, and is applied to many other uses.
Form
of preparation. Attenuation with alcohol.
AJS^GUSTURA VERA.
TRUE ANGUSTURA.
tree growing among the mountains of Carony, in Brazil, and

along the Orinoco river, attaining a height of twelve or fifteen feet.
The leaves are composed of three oblong, leaflets, tapering at each
extremity, and measuring from six to ten inches in length. The flowers are white, unpleasant to the smell, and arranged on both sides of
a central stem, which is either terminal or axillary. The fruit is a
capsule containing a round, black seed, about the size of a pea. The
bark, when received in this country, is in slightly curved, whitedotted, yellowish-gray pieces, covered with a wrinkled epidermis,
which is readily detached. It has a resinous fracture, a peculiar,
unpleasant odor, and a pungent, bitter taste. The powdered bark is
of a fawn color.
spurious bark has been introduced into the market, which is now known as '' false angustura " bark, and it comes
from the strychnos mix vomica. It can be distinguished by a botanical
study of the two plants.
Active principles. Resins,volatile
oil,
gums, angusturin
(cusparin).
Form
one part in
five of dilute alcohol,
Tincture
two weeks.
ANTHEMIS
made by macerating
Filter.
KOBILIS.
ROMAN CHAMOMILE.
This plant grows wild in various parts of Europe, but is also cultivated in the southern part of the continent.. The stems are from
six inches to a foot long, slender, trailing, covered with a soft down,
and becommg erect at their termination. The leaves are arranged on
both sides of the stalk, the leaflets being small, and divided into segments. The flowers are composed of white radiating petals, and a
yellow, convex center, from the circumference of which the former
spring.
The
entire plant is fragrant.
oil,
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bitter principle, resin, volatile acid.
Part used. The whole plant, when beginning to flower.

Form of preparation. Tincture, made by macerating one part in
one week, and
filtering.
ANTHOXANTHUM ODORATUM.
SWEET VERNAL GRASS.
a fragrant grass growing in nearly all parts of this counand rising from ten to eighteen inches high.
The stem is erect and slender, with lanceolate leaves about three inches
long. Th3 flowers are yellow, and disposed on a spike two or three
inches long, at the summit of the stem. The seed-grains are oblong,
shining, blackish, and when placed on the moistened hand, exhibit
an insect-like motion, due to the incoiling of the spirally twisted awn.
The perfume depends on the presence of coumarin, and is rendered more apparent by bruising the leaves. The aftermath, or fall
growth, is said to be richer in nourishing qualities than that grown,
in the spring.
This
is
try, flowering early,
Active principles. Coumarin, (same as in tonka bean, crystallizable, volatile),
vegetable acid.
Parts used. The whole plant,
Form
of preparation.
five of alcohol,
when
flowering.
Tincture, made
two weeks, and then
by macerating one part in
filtering.
ANTHRAKOKALI.
PIT-COAL
AND POTASH.
formed by the action of caustic potash upon a

mined at Funfkirchen, Hungary. To prepare
it. seven parts of caustic potassa are fused with five parts ot the powdered Funfkirchen pit coal, and the mixture well stirred
Then,
removing it from the fire, the stirring is recommenced, and continued
until the entire mass is converted into a homogeneous black powder.
This substance
is
species of pit coal,
It should be preserved in amber colored bottles, rendered impervious to the air by dropping melted wax around the stopper.
Form
of preparation.
Trituration.
ANTIMONIUM ARSENIATUM.
ARSENIATE OF ANTIMONY.
Sb2 O3, As05.
heavy, snow-white powder, containing oxide of antimony and

arsenic acid, obtained by saturating a strong solution of arsenic acid
with carbonate of antimony, and setting it aside to crystallize by its
own evaporation.
Form
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ANTIMONIUM CHLORIDUM.
CHLORIDE OF ANTIMONY. BUTTER OF ANTIMONY.
ISbCl3.
The
solution obtained by heating sulphide of antimony with hydrofumes of hydrogen sulphide have ceased), is
distilled until each drop of the distillate produces a white precipitate
chloric acid, (after the
in the receiver. Receivers are then chitnged, and this distillate cools
to a white, highly crystalline mass of chloride of antimony. '' Butter"
of antimony refers to its condition when partly deliquesced. It is not

the ''Powder of Algaroth " that salt is the oxjychloride of antimony.
While the hydrogen sulphide is given off, test for arsenic.
;
Form
i}le,
of preparation.
Trituration.
on account of deliquescence.
Aqueous
tincture
is
more
relia-
(See page 23, " Mother lincturey)
ANTIMONIUM CRUDUM.
TERSULPHURET OF ANTIMONY.
SbS3.
Drude antimony is the name given to the native tersulphuret of

antimony, and is not the pure metal as its name would imply. It is of
frequent occurrence in France, Germany, and on this continent in the
province of New Brunswick. It was known as long ago as the fifteenth century, when Basil Valentine, observing its fattening effect
upon hogs, experimented with it upon his monks, with fatal results
hence the name antimony, from the words anti^ against, and monachus,
a monk. In chemistry it is known as ''stibium." It is in irregular,
compact, brittle masses, of a dark bluish or leaden-gray appearance,
composed of thickly set, radiating, crystalline needles, having a metallic lustre, but less brilliant than the pure metal. It should be tested for
arsenic, which may be removed by thorough sublimation of the adulterant. The blue signal, and bengal light, contains this salt.
;
Form
ANTIMONIUM OXIDUM.
TEROXIDE OF ANTIMONY.
!Sb2 03.
An
occurring native as valentenite and senarmontite. It is prepared artificially in several ways, such as burning
the m^tal in a red hot crucible immersing a solution of chloride of
antimony in water, and treating the precipitate thus formed with a
solution of carbonate of soda ; or by roasting the tersulphuret of the
metal, and raising the heat near the close of the process. It is a heavy,
grayish-white, or pale buff-colored powder, insoluble in water.
adimorphous
salt,
Form
of preparation. Triturations.
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antimo:nîum et potassium taktaricum.

TARTAR KMETIC.
Sb03, KO, C8 H4 Oio + H3 O.
The tartrate of antimony and potassa is a double salt, formed by the
union of tartrate of potassa (or cream of tartar), with tartrate of the
teroxide of antimony these are boiled together until the solution is
saturated, and on cooling it deposits tartar emetic in colorless, transparent, octohedral crystals, easily reduced to a white powder. These
have a metallic taste, crepitate and blacken upon the application of
;
heat.
The
yellowish powdered crystals contain iron.
Watei* dissolves
this salt, alcohol less so.
Form
of
Solution for dilutions.
ANTIMONIUM SULPHURIS AURATUM.

GOLDEN SULPHURET OF ANTIMONY.
Sb2 S5
The following method furnishes this salt Sulphide of antimony,

carbonate of soda, slaked lime, flowers of sulphur are boiled together
in water for some hours, and the solution evaporated to form crystals of the double sulphate of sodium and antimony.
These are dissolved in dilute sulphuric acid, sulphate of soda remaining in solution
while the pentasulphide of antimony is deposited as a golden-yellow
:
precipitate.
Form
APHIS CHENOPODII GLAUCI.

PLANT
LICE.
These lice are found in great abundance upon the oak-leaved goosefoot (chenopodium glaucum), from which they are gathered.
The
head is small and furnished with a long tubular beak, which is situated perpendicularly between the fore legs. The body is soft, oval,
and provided at the posterior extremity with two slightly raised
eminences each of which is pierced by a tube or pore. From time to
time there exudes through these orifices, minute drops of a thick,
sweetish fluid called honey dew. These insects feed upon the sap contained in the leaves, sucking up the circulating fluids with the greatest
avidity, and when gorged with sap, the liquor passes out through the
posterior pores as above described. (Compare with chenopodium.)
Form
of preparation. Trituration of the living insects.
Tincture
part with five of alcohol and filtering.
MELLIFICA.
APIUM VIRUS. POISON OF THE HONEY BEE.
The honey bee is common to all parts of the known world, and
APIS
is
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common both in the wild and domesticated state. It produces several

valuable secretions, as honey, wax, and a virulent poison. They live
in colonies composed of the female or queen bee, of which there is but
one for each swarm, the males or drones existing only for the purpose
of impregnating the queens, after which they are killed by the third
class, the neuter or working bees. These latter comprise the greater
majority of each colony, and it is from them that the virus is obtained.
The abdominal cavity is enclosed by six rings that are contracted at
will, shortening or lengthening the body as desired. Within the abdomen is a system of cells, whose office it is to secrete a peculiar fatty
substance, used to construct the comb. The posterior extremity is
furnished with a sheath enclosing a barbed sting, and communicating
with a sac in which there is contained an exceedingly poisonous fluid.
Form of preparation. Tincture, made by pouring five times their
weight of alcohol over irritated working bees, allowing them to macerate for eight days; then decant and
filter
them.
This method gives
whatever pollen the bees may have about them. A better way is to
take each bee in a pair of forceps, and when he thrusts out his sting,
immerse
it
in alcohol, using bees
enough to saturate the alcohol.
APIUM GRAVEOLENS.
CELERY.
Originally an indigenous plant growing wild in various parts of
Europe, this vegetable has been transferred to this country, where it
receives the most careful cultivation. In its wild state it differs very
much from the crisp, juicy specimens we are accustomed to see, being
rank, coarse and possessing poisonous qualities. The principle seems
to be developed by the wet marshy localities in which it is at home,
losing it almost altogether by its transference to cultivated, welldrained soil. The stems are from eight to twelve inches high, are
marked for the greater part of their length, are concavo-convex,
and taper gradually toward the summit, which is slightly branching.
The leaf is small and delicate, with a bitterish taste the flowers are
white, terminal, and arranged in a spreading umbel the seeds are
black.
;
Part used. The seeds of the wild plant.
Form
two
of preparation. Tincture,
part with
of dilute alcohol.
APOCYNUM ANDROSEMIFOLIUM.
SPREADING DOGBANE.
CATCHFLY.
perennial, indigenous plant, ranging from three to six feet in

height, and growing along fences, borders of woods and in moist soil,
from the northern boundary of this country, southward to the Caro-
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The stem springini? from a large milky root, is smooth,

branched above, and covered with a tough fibrous bark, usually red
upon the side next the sun. The leaves are two or three inches long,
opposite, and smooth edged. The bell-shaped flowers are white, tinged
with red, have a horny-like odor, and grow in full, nodding, terminal
cymes, or in the axils of the leaves. The fruit is in follicles, containing a number of seeds overlapping one another, each being furnished
with a seed down. If wounded in any part, the plant pours out a
milky juice which is extremely bitter. The poisonous effects of the
European genus gives one of its common names.
linas.
Form
oil.
Bitter extractive,
gums.
part of
the fresh root in five of dilute alcohol, two weeks, and filtering.
APOCYNUM CANNABINUM.
AMERICAN INDIAN HEMP.
This is also indigenous, and closely resembles the A. androsemifolium, but is somewhat smaller, and is found in the same situations as
the former. The stems are two or three feet high, and brownish,
having leaves from one and a half to two and a half inches long,
tapering at both ends and downy beneath the flowers are small,
white externally, pinkish or purple internally. The bark is fibrous, and
when macerated in water, affords a substitute for hemp the root is
horizontal, five or six feet long, divided into branches near its termination, and is yellowish-brown when recent, but turns dark brown
with age. It contains a milky juice when freshly obtained, flowing at
every laceration, and when hardened, has the appearance of caoutchouc. The fruit or pod is from three to five inches long, containing
;
numerous
seeds.
Form
Apocynin.
Bitter extractive, resins, wax, gums.

Tincture made by macerating one part of
with two of dilute alcohol, two weeks, and filtering.
Active principles.
of preparation
the fresh root,
APOMORPHINUM CHLORIDUM.
A SUBSTANCE OBTAINED FROM MORPHIA.
NO2, HCl.
This substance differs from morphine in having one equivalent less
of water. It is obtained from the chloride of morphia, by treating it
with an excess of hydrochloric acid, and exposing it to a heat of 265
F., for two or three hours. It is then dissolved in distilled water, and
precipitated from its solution by bi-carbonate of soda, and redissolved
in ether or chloroform. It is then crystallized by adding a minute
Cl7, Hl7,
quantity of hydrochloric acid.

Form of preparation. Trituration.
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AQUA MARINA.
SEA WATER.
The waters of the ocean contain a vast number of substances in solution, among which are the chlorides of sodium, potassium, lithium
and magnesium the carbonates of lime, magnesia, iron, and manganese
the sulphates of the foregoing bases
the ammonio-magne;
sian phosphate
silicea,
acid, silver, lead, iron,
Form
iodine, bromine, organic matter, carbonic
and copper.
of preparation. Dilution,
AQUILEGIA VULGARIS.
COLUMBINE.
A plant indigenous in Europe, but introduced and cultivated in thi&

about two feet high, leafy, with many
flowers the leaves are smooth and lobed the flowers are large and
purple, with spurred petals resembling the talons of a bird of prey,
hence the name, from aquilla the eagle. Under cultivation the
flowers become double and vary in color from purple to white. The
whole plant has a disagreeable odor the seeds are black and shining,
small in size, and have a sweetish, with an acrid after taste.
country as an ornament.
It is
Form
of preparation.
Tincture
the plant with two of dilute alcohol, two weeks
a dark, brownish-green color, and bitter or acrid
ARANEA
filter.
part of
Tincture of
taste.
DIA.DEMA.
PAPAL-CROSS SPIDER.
found both in Europe and this country. The body is
This spider
about the size of a hazel nut, having a line running antero-posteriorly
upon the dorsum, which is composed of white and yellow points.
This is crossed transversely by three similar lines, the entire arrangeis
ment being
Form
the distinguishing
of preparation.
vehicle, or the
same
mark
Tincture
of this insect.
of the entire insect killed in the
as directed for apis mel.
ARANEA SCINENCIA.
A gray spider found in Kentucky, inhabiting old walls.
It does not
spin a web.
Form
of preparation.
Tincture same
as with A. diadema.
ARALIA RACEMOSA.
AMERICAN SPIKENARD.
The spikenard is an indigenous plant, growing mainly in rocky
woods from the Canadas to the Southern States. It is from three to
four feet high, having a dark green or reddish, widely branching stem
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the leaf stalks divide into threes, each having from three to five oval,
pointed, slightly downy leaflets the flowers are greenish-white, and
spring in clusters from the axils of the leaves and branches; the fruit
is a berry, containing a stone-like seed
the root is large, is very
aromatic
long, and has a spicy,
odor and taste.
;
Forms
of preparation.
Tincture
part of
the root with two of dilute alcohol two weeks, and filtering.
Trit-
uration of the dried root.
AKGENTUM.
SILVER.
Ag.
Metallic silver may be prepared by triturating thin silver foil with
sugar of milk, or by precipitation. The readiest method of precipitation is to place silver chloride in a glass tumbler or jar and cover with
water to four or five times its depth. Acidify the water with a few
drops of sulphuric acid, and place in it a piece or strip of clean, bright
zinc. The silver chloride will soon be changed into metallic silver,
gray and spongy. Wash with weak solution of muriatic acid. Metallic silver is also precipitated from solution by gallic acid.
Form
of preparation. Trituration with sugar of milk,
quently decomposes, generally through the

of crystallization,
which
is
medium of
liberated by trituration.
which
fre-
the sugar water
The
be oxide of silver, or even a saccharate of silver, which
result
may
is soluble.
ARGENTUM AMMONIUM CHLORIDUM.

This
AMMONIO-CHLORIDE OF SILVER.
crystallizing in cubes, is made by saturating
a solution of
chloride of silver, aiding the process with heat. It is
then enclosed in a stoppered boitle and allowed to cool, when crystallization takes place. It should be dried and protected from the light
salt,
ammonia with
in amber-colored or blackened bottles.
Form
of preparation. Solution, in distilled water, 3d with dilute
alcohol, then alcohol.
ARGENTUxVI CYANIDUM.
CYANIDE OF SILVER.
AgCy.
formed by the distillation of ferrocyanide of potassium, previously mixed with sulphuric acid and water.
As the distillation
salt
progresses, the hydrocyanic acid passes into a receiver containing a

solution of nitrate of silver, and combining with the metal is thrown
down
in the
form of a precipitate, which is washed and dried. Another
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method
is its precipitation from a solution of nitrate of silver by

cyanide of potassium, and then treated as other precipitates. It
should be guarded from exposure to tlip light. It is a heavy, white,
insoluble pnvder, having neither smell nor taste.
Form
of preparation.-- Trituration.
ARGENTUM
lODIDU:.!.
IODIDE OF SILVER.
Asl.
This substance is formed when iodide of potassium, dissolved in

is added to a solution of nitrate of silver.
A double decomposition takes place, by which iodide of silver is precipitated, the nitrate
of potassium being held in solution. The silver salt is then washed,
carefully dried and afterward enclosed in amber-colored bottles. It
is a bright yellow powder, possessing the remarkable property of
expanding with cold and contracting with heat.
water,
Form
Transfer to water at
fifth dec.
arge:n^tum muriaticum.
CHLORIDE OF SILVER.
AgCl.
the chloride of silver, a solution of common salt or
dilute muriatic acid is added in successive portions to a solution of
nitrate of silver. The resulting precipitate is the salt under consideration which should be preserved in the same way as the other silver
To prepare
salts.
Form
will
As
(me-milliontii of a grain
produce cloudiness, do not transfer to water before the sixth
decimal.
ARGENTUM NITRICUM.
NITRATE OF SILVER. LUNAR CAUSTIC, (IMPURE).
AgONO.5
Metallic silver is dissolved in dilute nitric acid by aid of heat, the
heat continued until red fumes of nitrous acid are no longer given
off.
It is then evaporated to dryness, melted, re-dissolved, decanted,
and concentrated to crystallization. Another formula omits melting
the salt prior to its last solution. Either of these processes form
colorless, transparent, rhomboid crystals, possessing a strong metallic taste, and imparting a black or brownish stain to orgatiic sub-
In solution, nitrate of silver forms the wêll known '' indelible

ink," used for marking clothing. For local application it is dissolved
in distilled w-ater in the proportion of two to ten grains to the ounce.
stances.
Form
of preparation. Solution in distilled water.
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ARGENTUM PHOSPHORICUM.
PHOSPHATE OF SILVER.
Ag3 P04
Phosphate of silver is formed by the mixture of the solutions of
rhombic phosphate of soda and nitrate of silver. The salt is deposited as a precipitate, nitrate of soda remaining in solution. The same
rules as to its final disposition and exclusion from light are to be
observed, as in the case of its relatives. It is a yellow powder.
Porm
ARISTOLOCHIA CLEMATITIS.
SNAKE ROOT.
BIRTHWORT.
This European plant, to which the name of snake root is loosely

applied, is of common occurrence in France and Germany, and occurs
as far east as Tartary. It has a long, thin, irregularly jointed, yellowish-brown root, and a furrowed, pithy, angular stem the leaves are
heart-shaped and obtuse, blue-green above and green beneath. The
flowers grow in the axils of the leaves and are of a dirty yellow color.
The entire plant has a strong, unpleasant odor, and a bitter balsam;
like taste.
'
Active Principles.Aristolochin,
(Elliott).
Resin, volatile
oil.
Part used. Root dug in April or September.
Form
the whole plant in two parts of dilute alcohol, two weeks.
part of
Filter.
ARISTOLOCHIA MILHOMENS.
BRAZILIAN SNAKE ROOT.
a climbing plant, a native of Brazil, having a smooth stem,
and bearing alternate, heart, or kidney-shaped leaves, supported on
long, sinuous leaf stalks, the flowers, standing upon long channeled
stalks, are large, yellowish-brown, and divide into two portions, one of
these ending in a sharp spur, the other in a broad disk.
This
is
Form
part of
the dried root and flowers in five of dilute alcohol, two weeks, and
fil-
tering.
ARNICA MONTANA.
leopard's bane,
mountain arnica.
This perennial plant grows in Alpine and other mountainous districts of Europe and Siberia.
In this country it is found in the
northern portion as far west as the Mississippi river. It is about a
foot high, with a striated hairy stem, terminating in two or three
peduncles, each of which bears a large orange-colored flower; the
radical leaves are ovate and obtuse, those of the stem lance-shaped
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about two or three inches long, horizontal, woody, giving

of fibres or radicles. All parts of the plant have
a strong aromatic odor, and peppery, bitterish taste. The fruit is a
hairy pappus. Gruner cautions against a peculiar parasite musca
arnicce, on which account the calices may be rejected.
the root
is
off a ofreat
number
Active principles. Resm, bitter principles (cystisin

oil,
[?]), volatile
arnacina.
Part used. The entire plant, or flowers alone.
Form
made by macerating one part of

alcohol. Tincture made by macerat-
the fresh root with five of dilute
ing one part of the fresh plant with two of dilute alcohol.
made with one
part of the flowers to six of dilute alcohol.
Tincture
Filtering.
ARSENICUM.
METALLIC ARSENIC.
As.
Metallic arsenic is rarely found as such in nature, but may be
obtained by subjecting the metallic oxide to the heat of incandescent
charcoal, the oxygen being dissipated the pure metal remains. Pure
arsenic is a brittle crystalline metal of a steel-gray color, bright when
broken or freshly obtained, becoming tarnished by exposure. When
heated to a temperature of 356 F., white fumes are given off, having
the garlicky smell peculiar to this metal. It is widely distributed in
nature, existing in various ores, minerals, soils and springs, (arsenical
springs), and used for many purposes in the arts.
Form
of preparation.
Trituration.
Dilution from the
fifth
decimal
trituration.
ARSENICUM ALBUM.
ARSENIOUS ACID.
WHITE ARSENIC.
AS2 03
This form of arsenic is chiefly obtained from Bohemia and Saxony
where it is deposited as a secondary product in the flues of furnaces
in which cobalt ores are smelted. It is collected and purified by
re-sublimation in close iron vessels. When freshly prepared, it is
clear and glass-like in appearance, but soon becomes opaque by
exposure to the atmosphere. It has a faint, sweetish taste and when
thrown upon lighted coals, gives off the characteristic garlic odor.
In masses of considerable size, the outer portion for a variable thickness is of a milky-white color, while the internal portion has the
transparent, glassy appearance of the recent article. When in powder
it is very apt to be adulterated with lime, chalk, and other factitious
substances these may be detected by sublimation, the impurities will
not sublime. It is readily pulverizable. Arsenic is a violent poison.
;
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often fatal in minute doses, and produces cachexia from long continued use.
Serious poisoning sometimes takes place when it is
inhaled in the form of dust from green wall paper, (arsenite of
copper).
Form
of
preparation.
Trituration.
(Solubility in
water differs
with different specimens and different authorities, from
1-4 to 1-1000
Hence, do not transfer trituration to water before the
parts.)
fifth
decimal.
ARSENICUM HYDROGENISATUM.
ARSENETTED HYDROGEN. ARSENE.
AsHs
This
a colorless gas in the product of Marsh's Test for arsenic,
is
and is also prepared by the action of nitric or hydrochloric acid upon

an alloy composed of arsenic and zinc. It burns with a blue flame,
having the odor of garlic, and is slightly soluble in water. It is very
poisonous even in small quantities.
Form
of preparation.
water for inhalation.
The
freshly prepared gas dissolved in cold
(Unsafe in any amount).
ARSENICUM lODIDUM.
IODIDE OF ARSENIC.
Asl3
This is procured by rubbing iodine and arsenious acid together in
a mortar until a fine powder is obtained. This is placed in a flask
and heated to a molten mass, after which it is poured out upon a
stone or porcelain slab. In a short time it hardens into a mass,
which is broken up and enclosed in a well stoppered bottle. It is an
orange-red, crystalline solid, freely soluble in water and entirely volatilized by heat.
Form
ARSENICUM CITRINUM.
LEMON-COLORED ARSENIC. TRISULPHIDE OF ARSENIC. ORPIMENT.
king's YELLOW.
AS2 S3
This is found in masses made up of flexible plates having a bright
lemon-j'ellow color, and is of most frequent occurrence in Persia and
China. It is prepared artificially by passing sulphuretted hydrogen
through muriatic acid, in which arsenious acid has been previously
dissolved the precipitate thrown down is then collected, washed and
;
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may
talline salt,
by fusing arsenic with the requisite

Prepared in this way it is a golden-yellow crysused as a pigment, and employed in the manufacture of
fireworks.
Insoluble.
dried.
It
amount
also be procured
of sulphur.
Form
of preparation.
Trituration.
ARSENICUM SULPHURATUM RUBRUM.

DISULPHIDR OF ARSENIC.
REALGAR.
AS2 S2
Saxony, Bohemia, and Transylvania, and some volcanic regions
It is also prepared by fusing arsenious acid
with half its weight of sulphur. It has a ruby-red color, is fusible,
volatile, used for painting, and one of the ingredients of white fire.
furnish this substance.
Insoluble.
Forms
of preparation. Triturations. Dilutions
from the
fifth dec.
ARTEMISIA ABROTANUM.
SOUTHERNWOOD.
OLD MAN.
A native of Asia and Europe, where it is quite common in hedges,

waste places, etc., but quite familiar in this country, and often cultivated in gardens. It is about three feet high, shrubby, with alternate
and lobed leaves, white and downy beneath, having a fragrant odor
and a bitter, nauseous, somewhat pungent taste. The flowers are
many, nodding, brownish-yellow and disposed on long spikes; they
have an aromatic and pleasant odor, although bees do not like it and
even avoid it.
Part used. The stems and leaves.
Form
of preparation.
the stems and
Tincture,
part of
leaves in two parts of dilute alcohol, two weeks. Filter.
ARTEMISIA VULGARIS.
MUG WORT. COMMON
ARTEMISIA.
This is also a naturalized plant, growing in fields, by the roadsides,

banks of streams, etc. It is from two to three feet high, emits an
agreeable odor when rubbed, and is very bitter to the taste. The
leaves are white and cottony on the under surface, very variable in
The flowers are few, purplish and hairy.
size, and cleft in segments.
The root is round, crooked, and said to contain its greatest virtues in
November. It is most common in Vermont and New Hampshire.
Form
the side roots in two of very dilute alcohol, and
brown
color, little taste.
filtering.
part of
Yellowish
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AKUM DKACUXCULUS.
DRAGON PLANT.
This member of the arum family is met with in the south of
Europe. The stalks are about three feet high and spottied like a
snake. It has a strong, carrion-like odor, producing headache and
other disagreeable effects when inhaled. In other respects it resembles the A. maculatum.
Form
made by expressing
the root, then adding an equal part of alcohol.

root in three parts dilute alcohol, two weeks
the juice from
Also by macerating
then
filter.
Ethereal
tincture alone contains the full virtues of the arums.
AKUM
ITALICUM.
ITALIAN ARUM.
This member of the arum family is met with in the south of Europe,
from Holland southward. It also grows in northern Africa. The
plant is large and stout, with long triangular leaves. The spathe or
elongated flower-leaf is yellow, and falls over at the top as soon as it
expands the berries and seeds are larger than those of its relatives.
Form of preparation. Tincture made by expressing the juice from
;

root in three parts dilute alcohol,
two weeks
Also by macerating
then
filter.
AKUM MACULATUM.
CUCKOO-PINT. LORDS AND LADIES.
This plant is indigenous to England, Ireland, and to central Europe,
preferring thick, shady woods or thickets and hedges, and containing
a milky, very acrid juice. The leaves all spring from the root, are
large, handsome, shining, sometimes spotted with black, and strongly
arrow-shaped
more
the flower stalk
is
smooth, round, rising to a foot or
and bearing a single flower at the summit
the flower,
convolute at the base, is prolonged upward into a tongue-like process
of greenish-yellow color, and known as the spathe
the spadis is a
clut-shaped process rising in the centre of the flower, violet, or brownish-red in color, and sometimes shaded by the bent spathe. The
berries are scarlet, many seeded, and when the spathe withers, are
seen lasting sometimes all winter.
The root is tuberous, fleshy,
brownish yellow, and has a burning acrid taste. It abounds in starch
of which '' Portland sago " is made.
in height,
Active principles. Acrid,
volatile principles,
gums, fixed
oil,
resin,
calcium phos.
Form
of preparation.
(1.)
Tincture
made by
expressing the juice
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from the
in
root, then
two parts
contains
all
adding an equal part of alcohol.
of dilute alcohol
two weeks.
the virtues of the plant.
(3.)
(2.)
Macerating
Ethereal extract only,
Filter.
ARUM TRIPHYLLUM.
INDIAN TURNIP.
Native in all parts of this continent, this plant grows in wet woodlands, marshes, ditches, and moist, shady places, in general appearance it resembles the A. maculatum, and has received the fanciful
name of Jack-in-the-pulpit, from the club-shaped spadis standing in

the goblet-shaped spathe, by which it is canopied. The recent plant
has a strong odor, and pungent, acrid taste. The root or cormus
varies from one to two inches in diameter, is brown and wrinkled
externally, and contains a volatile principle, producing a long-lasting, burning sensation, with soreness of the mouth and throat
when chewed. When roasted the root becomes inert, and is then eatable. Aroine is the active principle which by distillation becomes an
inflammable gas.
Active principles. Very

ive,
gums, potash and lime
volatile, acrid principles
if
possible.
made by
the root, then adding an equal part of dilute alcohol
maceration, with
also
aroine, extract-
salts.
Fart used. The root, fresh,
Form
dilute alcohol
an ethereal extraction.
two
parts,
is
dry, by
two weeks, then
filter;
if
root
Trituration.
ASAFCETIDA.
ASAFCETIDA.
Asafoetida is a gum resin from the ferula or narthex asafoetida, a
native of oriental countries, growing in Persia, Bokhara, Afghanistan,
Medea, Chorassan and the Punjaub. The leaves are radical, numerous, spreading, tough, leathery, and about two feet long. From the
midst of these a smooth stem rises, attaining a height of six or eight
feet, crowned at the summit with a cluster of pale yellow flowers.
The fruit is oval, flat and reddish brown. The root is about three
inches in diameter at the .surface of the ground, nearly a foot in length
and containing a large amount of milky, fetid juice. This is obtained
by cutting the root transversely, while yet in the ground, aud carefully removing the exuding juice and drying it in the sun. A good
specimen of asafoetida, consists of a coagulation of granules of the
size of a pea or hazel-nut, or larger, light yellow, having a somewhat
waxy lustre, readily becoming sticky, viscous, and soft under the
hand; some of these granules are adherent with each other, while
others gather into a brownish, soft formless mass of a fatty lustre
and a most penetrating odor. It presents two forms, that of tears and
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has hardened in drops or.quantities. Asafoetida is brittle, yellowish, or reddish-brown, extremely fetid, difficult to
pulverize and milky in the presence of water.
masses, according as
it

Malates.
Form
oil,
similar to one in
oil
of mustard.
Bassorin and other extractives.

of
preparation.
Tincture
selected tears in five of alcohol
made by
dissolving one part of
two weeks, then
filter;
color, a deep,
brownish-red.
ASAKUM CANADENSE.
INDIAN GINGER. WILD GINGER. COLT'S FOOT. CANADA SNAKE-ROOT.
is found from the Canadas to the Carolinas.
long, creeping, fleshy, yellowish, knotted and con-
This indigenous plant
The
root stalk
is
torted the stem divides before reaching the surface, and rises in two
long, bairy leaf stalks, each bearing a half formed leaf. The flower is
solitary, and situated at the base of the plant, where it is easily overlooked among the leaves, rubbish, etc., which often nearly cover it.
It has a woolly appearance, and a dull purple color. The plant usually
grows in wooded or shaded places, posvsesses an aromatic bitter taste,
and yields, on distillation, a pungent, fnigrant oil.
;
Active principles.
An
acrid, bitter resin
ôdorous, volatile oil
extractive salts.
Part used.
Form
The root.
of preparation.
the fresh root in
two of
Tincture
alcohol,
two weeks, then
part of
filter.
ASARUM EUROPIUM.
ASARABACCA. FOAL'S FOOT. HAZELWORT. WILD NARD.
Flourishes in mountainous woods in maiiy parts of Europe. The
stem is short, supporting two dark green, kidney-shaped leaves, and
having a single drooping, bell -like and greenish-brown flower in the
axil of the leaves. The root is about the thickness of a goose-quill,
quadrangular, knotty, having the smell of pepper, and an acrid taste,
and yielding a grayish powder when triturated. This latter becomes
inert with age.
Active principles. Asarin, volatile

ives, citric acid, cytisin.
,
oil,
large
number
of extract-
Asarum camphor.
Part used. The root and whole plant,
Form
the root in five of alcohol, then

acrid taste.
filter

:
dark brown
part of
color, strong smell,
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ASCLEPIAS INCARNATA.
WHITE INDIAN HEMP. FLESH-COLO llED ASCLKPIAS. ROSE-COLORED
SILKWEED. SWAMP MILKWEED.
This species grows in low, wet localities in all parts of the United
It rises about two or three feet high, branching above, and
pours out a milky juice if wounded. The leaves are oblong, lancelike, about five inches long, and covered with a fine down.
The
flowers are red or reddish purple, very fragrant, and arranged in numerous umbels, frequently in opposite pairs. The root is light yellow
or brownish.
States.
Form
the root in five of alcohol two weeks, then
filter.
part of
Trituration.
ASCLEPIAS SFRIACA.
SILKWEED.
MILKWEED.
This herbaceous plant is one of common growth in nearly all parts

of the country, inhabiting sandy soils, uncultivated laud, and the
banks of water courses. It is about three or four feet in height, has a
large, strong, branching stem, with oval, spreading leaves, downy on
the under surface. The flowers are fragrant, axillary, purplish, and
disposed in dense clusters. The fruit is a pod, covered externally
with sharp spines enclosing a number of seeds, to which fine silk fibres
are attached, collectively making a mass of fine hairs. These have
been used in the manufacture of hats, and for a number of other
milky fluid exudes wherever any part of the plant is cut
purposes.
or broken.
Active principles.
Resinoid.
Asclepiadin.
Form
of the root in five of dilute alcohol,
two weeks, then
filter.
part
Trit-
uration.
ASCLEPIAS TUBE ROSA.

PLEURISY ROOT.
BUTTERFLY WEED. TUBER ROOT. WHITE ROOT.

WINE ROOT. FLUX ROOT.
This is an indigenous shrub about eighteen inches high, of more

frequent occurrence in the southern states, although it is seen as far
north as Massachusetts. The stems are numerous, some erect, some
ascending, others drooping, clothed with scattered lance-like leaves
that are very hairy and deep green. The flowers are a reddish-orange
color, and disposed both in terminal and lateral umbels. The fruit is
an oblong follicle, containing a number of flat, oval seeds which are
attached to the pod by long silky hairs. The root is furnished with
tubers from which the name of the plant is derived is large, branch;
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sometimes fusiform, and when recent, has a nauseous, acrid taste.

This species does not contain the milky juice possessed by the other
ing,
species.
Form
root in
two of
dilute alcohol
two
wrecks, then
filter.
part of the
Trituration.
ASPARAGUS
OFFICIJÂLIS.
ASPARAGUS.
culinary vegetable with which every one is acquainted. It was

known to the ancient Romans, and still holds its place as an
epicurean delicacy. It has a thick, matted, tuberous root from which
numerous branching stems arise the leaves are bushy, narrow,
thread-like and in clusters
the flowers are small, greenish-yellow,
and axillary the berry is round, scarlet or red, and contains two or
three black seeds. In Europe it grows wild in many localities, but
mainly in sandy places near the sea coast. It is sometimes found wild
in this country, and is then seen in waste places.
<t^
well
Active principles.
Asparagin, (also in althsea,) oil of asparagus.
Part used. The young shoots.
Form
the
young shoots with two
pale straw color,
little
part of
of dilute alcohol one week, then filter;
taste or smell.
ASTERIAS RUBEN^S.
STAR FISH.
marine animal quite common on the various coasts of Europe,

living in water of moderate depth. It is shaped in exact resemblance
to a five pointed star, is garnet red in color, and has the faculty of
reproducing any member that has been accidentally lost. The central
portion contains the mouth and stomach, the former being situated
upon the under surface, and armed with hard papillae in the place of
teeth the stomach is simply a globular sac. The nerous system is
composed of a circular chain of ganglia from which nerve filaments
are given off. An eye is situated at the extremity of each arm. The
entire animal is supported by an external calcareous envelope or
skeleton, covered with spines and tubercles. For locomotion, it is
provided with numerous muscular tube-like processes passing out
through foramina in the shelly covering, and arranged in double rows
on both surfaces. Each of these terminate in a disk, depressed in the
;
centre.
Part used. The entire living animal.
Form
made by
digesting one part in five
parts of alcohol for eight days, then filtering.
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ATHAMANTA OREOSELINUM.
BLACK MOUNTAIN PARSLEY.
ATROPINUM.
ATROPIA. DATURIN.
Cl7 H23 NO;3.
This alkaloid contained in the atropa belladonna is obtained from
the root by treating it with alcohol, sulphuric acid, solution of potassa
and chloroform in a series of processes. When isolated it is in the
form of white, silky crystals, without odor, and having a bitter taste.
These are entirely volatilized by heat, and burn without ash, giving
off at the same time an odor like benzoic acid.
Form
so in alcohol.
Slightly soluble in water,
more
Tincture, saturated solution in alcohol.
ATROPINUM SULPHURICUM.
SULPHATE OF ATROPIA.
Cl7 H28 J^SOe.
formed by the action of sulphuric acid upon atropia. It
is a white, slightly crystalline powder, very soluble in water and alcoThis salt is more frequently
hol, insoluble in ether and chloroform.
used than atropia, but has no other advantage over it than its sol-
This
salt is
ubility in water.
Form
of preparation.- - Trituration.
Solution in water or alcohol tor
tincture.
AURUM.
METALLIC GOLD.
Au.
This is one of the noble metals, and usually found native in the sand
of rivers, constituting " gold dust," or in " pockets," when the pieces
are called '' nuggets." It also occurs in large quantities imbedded in
separated by crushing, amalgam ition and sepGold has been obtained at different times from Brazil,
aration.
Hungary, British Columbia, the Ural mountains, Africa, Australia,
and California. The Black Hills of Dakota are yielding it in considerable amount, and in former times it was mined in North Carolina.
It is a yellow metal, varying in shade from orange to a pale yellow,
according to the locality from which it is taken. When melted it is of
an emerald green color. It is very malleable, very ductile and capable
In coin it is alloyed with
of being drawn into the finest wire.
or
copper
harden
it.
to
silver
quartz,
from which
Form
it is
of preparation. Trituration of gold
der in honey.
Wash out the honey on
of milk. Or, precipitate
the
foil.
filter
Grind
it
and transfer
to a
pow-
to sugar
from solution of muriate or cyanide by
gallic
HOMCEOPATHIC
acid,
wash and dry on the
PHARMACOPCEIA.
Do
filter.
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not transfer to dilutions before
the sixth decimal dilution.
AURUM FULMINANS.
AURATE OF AMMONIA. FULMINATING GOLD.
Au3 O3 4NH3 Hs.
This
is
an explosive substance procured by the addition of
to a solution of chloride of gold.
ammonia
The
resulting precipiiate is a yellow,

tasteless powder,detonating whenever it is rubbed or struck, and on
this
account should only be kept in a pasteboard box.
Form
tesimal potencies be used, the
first
Jahr directs that "only cen-
and second with starch
flour moist-
ened with alcohol, the third with sugar of milk."
AURUM MURIATICUM.
TERCHLORIDE OF GOLD.
AuCls.
Prepared by dissolving pure gold in three times its weight of nitromuriatic acid with a moderate heat, evaporating nearly to dryness.
The crystalline mass thus obtained is of a deep red color, dissolving in
water, alcohol or ether. It has a bitter, metallic after.taste, is deliquescent and sensitive to sunlight, and for these latter reasons should
be enclosed in an amber colored, closely stopped vial. It is difficult
to prepare this substance by trituration. Extremely poisonous.
Form
of preparation. Solution in distilled water.
Trituration.
AURUM ET NATRUM MURIATICUM

CHLORO-AURATE OF SODA.
NaCl AuCls 2H2 O
.
Chloride of gold and sodium is prepared by dissolving gold in nitromuriatic acid, evaporating the solution to dryness, and dissolving this
in eight times its weight of water, to which is added one part of
decrepitated common salt dissolved in distilled water. The whole is
then evaporated to dryness, leaving a golden yellow salt.
Form
Aqueous
solution to saturation,
transferred to dilute alcohol at third decimal dilution.
AURUM SULPHURATUM.
SULPHIDE OF GOLD.
AU2 83.
Formed by passing sulphide

of
gold, the
precipitate
golden yellow in color.
of hydrogen into a solution of chloride

thrown down being thoroughly washed,
Very
insoluble.
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Form
of pre])aration. Trituration.
Transfer to dilution not before
the sixth decimal.
BALSAMUM PEEUVIANUM.
BALSAM OF PERU.
This
the product of a tree growing in Peru, Central America, and

the Island of Trinidad. At one time it was supposed to exist only in
Peru, hence its name. The tree is large and straight, with a coarse,
compact, heavy bark, pale yellow in color, but often varies to an
orange or reddish shade, according to the proportion of balsam contained in it. This is procured by beating the bark with clubs, after
which incisions are made in it. In about fifteen days the juice flows
freely, and is received on woolen rags these are boiled in water to
separate the balsam, which on cooling is deposited at the bottom of
the vessel the water rising to the top is then decanted.
is
Active principles. Peculiar volatile
oil,
cinnamic acid, styrone,
styracin, resin.
Form
of preparation. Tincture, saturated solution in alcohol.
BAPTISIA TmCTORIA.
WILD INDIGO.
An
indigenous, bushy shrub, about two feet high, growing on hillwoods and dry, poor soils, extending from Canada to the
Gulf, and throughout the western states. The foliage is bluish-green ;
the flowers are a bright yellow, and in small, loose, terminal clusters.
The fruit is oblong, bluish -black, and mostly one-sided. The plant
can be made to yield a blue dye or pigment, but it is inferior to that of
the true indigo. Two varieties are generally found in the situations
occupied by this plant, with which it may be confounded, but they
may be distinguished by their white flower.
sides, in
Active principles.
An
extractive, baptisin
bitter principle,
and
peculiar salt of lime.
Form
of preparation.
Tincture made by macerating one part of the
fresh root in two of dilute alcohol
then
filter.
BAROSMA CRENATA.
BUCHU.
slender shrub growhig at the Cape of Good Hope, and other parts
of southern Africa. The leaves are gathered by the Hottentots who
value them for their strong odor, which may be imparted to the skin
by rubbing it with the powder. The bush is about two or three feet
The
high, the angular branches having a brownish-purple color.
leaves are tough, and fibrous, and vary in length from three-quarters
H03ICEOPATHIC PHARMACOPCEIA.
to an inch
and a
half long, are glandular
on the under surface, and
have a strong penetrating odor and bitterish

oil,
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taste.
extractive, resin.
Part used. The leaves.
Form
part of the
leaves in five of dilute alcohol.
BARYTA ACETICA.
ACETATE OF BARYTA.
C2 H3 O2 BaO.
A salt prepared by dissolving carbonate of baryta in chemically

pure acetic acid, and crystallizing it by evaporation. It is rarely used,
inasmuch as the carbontite is considered to possess all the medicinal
properties contained in the acetate.
Form
of preparation. Trituration
solution to saturation.
BARYTA CARBONICUM.
CARBONATE OF BARYTA.
BaO CO2.
WITHERITE.
This mineral is met with as a gray, or yellowish -gray fibrous mass,

occurring most frequently in Sweden, Siberia, Scotland and the north
of England. It bears a certain resemblance to strontium for which it
is apt to be mistaken.
It may be procured artificially, by precipitation
from a solution of chloride of barium, to which carbonate of ammonia
or other alkaline carbonate has been added. Carbonate of baryta, or
barium is white and heavy, having neither smell nor taste, and but
slightly soluble in water or alcohol.
Forms of preparation. Trituration. Dilution with
the fifth decimal.
BARIUM lODIDUM.
IODIDE OF BARIUM.
Balz.
To
obtain this
salt,
powdered carbonate of baryta
is
mixed with a
double decomposition takes

boiling solution of iodide of iron.
place in which iodine combines with the baryta. It may also be prepared by decomposing sulphide of barium, with a concentrated alcoholic solution of iodine. In either of these processes the precipitate that
has formed, should be removed, and the solution containing the salt
evaporated to crystallization. It is then in the form of crystalline
needles, deliquescing readily, and decomposing by continued exposure
to the atmosphere, during which the iodine is entirely dissipated.
Therefore to preserve it, keep it closely stopped.
Form
of preparation. Solution in distilled water to saturation,
immediate reduction by dilution
filter.
and
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BAKIUM MURIATICUM.
CHLORIDE OF BARIUM.
BaClg 2H2 O (crystallized).
BaCls.
Prepared by dissolving carbonate of barium in muriatic acid, upon

which a marked effervescence takes place, and when this has ceased, a
gentle heat is applied. The solution is then filtered, and evaporated
to such a degree that crystals will be formed on cooling. Another
method consists in decomposing sulphuret of baryta with muriatic
acid, sulphuretted hydrogen escaping and chloride of barium remaining in solution, from which it is obtained as in the former instance.
The crystals are flat, square, and transparent, dissolving easily in
water, nearly insoluble in alcohol, and have a bitter taste.
Form
of
Solution
in distilled water.
Transferred to dilute alcohol at third decimal, or second centesimal.
BELLADOiSTKA.
DEADLY NIGHTSHADE. ATROPA BELLADONNA.
This is an herbaceous plant from one to four feet high, semi-trailing
and a native of central and southern Europe, where it grows in stony
places, about old walls, and among the rubbish of fallen buildings.
In the United States it flourishes under cultivation, and is sometimes
found wild. The root is long, creeping, branched, and from it arise
several erect, branching, purplish stems, with entire, dusky-green
leaves, given off in unequal pairs. The flowers arising from the forks
of the stem and the axils of the leaves are solitary, bell-shaped, and of
a bluish or greenish-purple color. The berries are round, and vary

size of a currant to a filbert; at first green, then red, finally,
a shining, purplish-black, having a sweetish, purple juice, and a
number of kidney-sha])ed, pitted seeds. All parts of the plant are
violently poisonous. The most vigorous plants grow on calcareous
soil, therefore those grown on rich, loamy soil should not be used for
medicinal purposes.
from the
Active principles.
acid; belladonin
(?)
Atropine (daturin), a powerful alkaloid

;
atropic
malate of atropia.
Part used. The whole plant.
Form
of preparation.
the whole plant
when beginning
of dilute alcohol.
filter.
Has
nauseous
Tincture made by expressing
(2)
to flower, then adding
Macerate in
the juice from
an equal part
five parts dilute alcohol,
two weeks
a deep yellowish-brown appearance, narcotic odor and
taste.
BELLIS PERENIS.
THE DAISY.
is native in England and various parts of Europe.
The
spring from the root, and have a broad midrib. They are
This plant
leaves
all
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from ODe to three inches lon^. The scape or riower stem is smooth,
two to five inches in height and supports a single terminal flower
this is composed ot a yellow disk fringed with white.
Part used. The whole plant when in flower.
Form of preparation. Tincture made by expressing the juice from
the whole plant when in flower, then adding an equal part of dilute
alcohol. Maceration in live parts of dilute alcohol, two weeks, and
filtering.
BENZINUM.
BENZIJNE.
HYDRIDE OF PHENYL.
C6
Ht;,
This substance is obtained during the distillation of petroleum,

coming over at a temperature of 80 to 820F. It is, when pure, a
limpid, volatile, inflammable liquid, dissolving waxy, fatty, resinous
and other organic substances, soluble in alcohol and ether, and having a strong, somewhat etherial odor. It is somewhat different from
benzole with which it is often confounded.
I orm of preparation. Solution in alcohol
water not before the
fifth
dilutions transferred to
decimal.
BENZINUM NITRIC UM.

ESSENCE DE MIRBANE. NITRO-BENZOL. HYDRIDE OF NITRO-PHENYL.
Cl2
H5 NO4.
yellow, oily, sweetish liquor, having the odor of bitter almonds,

and is employed in flavoring confectionery, scenting fancy soaps, and
the manufacture of flavoring extracts. It is prepared by the action of
fuming nitric acid upon benzole, and washing the product with water.
Form
of preparation. Solution in alcohol.
at third decimal,
if
Transferred to water
desired.
BENZOIC ACID.
THE ACID FROM BENZOIN.
Benzoin is the product of the benjamin tree, a native of Sumatra,
Borneo, Java and Siam. It is procured by making incisions in the
bark, and collecting the hardened juice, consisting of tears and
masses. The acid is obtained from this by sublimation. The gum is
heated on an iron plate, previously covered with a conical paper cap,
and the volatile acid rising, crystallizes on the sides of the cone.
Crystallized acid, soluble in alcohol, quite insoluble in water.
benzoates (salts of benzoic acid) are soluble in water.
Form
Solution in alcohol.
Most
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BERBERINUM.
BERBERINE.
This is the alkaloid contained in the root of the Berberis vulgaris,
but IS not peculiar to this plant, as it is also found in the roots of the
cocculus palmatus, hydrastis canad., xanthoxylum, coptis and others.
It IS obtained in yellow, needle-shaped crystals, sparingly soluble in
cold watier, more so in alcohol, and possessing a very bitter taste.
Hydrastina is nearly identical with berberine, solubilities differing
considerably.
Form
tions.
fifth
Solution in alcohol for dilu-
decimal.
BERBERIS VULGARIS.
BARBERRY.
This plant is a native of Europe, but also grows wild in some parts
New England, inhabiting hard, gravelly soils. It is a spreading
shrub about four or five feet high, and bears yellow flowers disposed
in clusters of a dozen each the stamens of these are very irritable,
of
springing violently against the stigma, when touched. The berries are
oblong, grow in bunches, are bright scarlet in color, and have a sour
taste.
The root affords a bark that is used to dye yellow.
Active principle.
Form
Berberine (see berberine).
root gathered late in the
fall,
in five of alcohol,
Has a deep yellowish- brown appearance and
part of the
two weeks.
Filter.
bitter taste.
BISMUTHUM OXIDUM.
HYDRATED TEROXIDE OF BISMUTH.
BiOs, H2 O.
This is a white precipitate obtained when to a solution of the nitrate
bismuth is added a solution of an alkaline base, as potassaor soda.
The precipitate is the hydrate of the teroxide of bismuth. Filter and
wash on the filter. The hydrate differs in medical qualities from the
anhydrous oxide.
of
Form
Dilution
made with
fifth deci-
mal or third centesimal.
BISMUTHUM SUBNITRICUM.
SUBNITRATE OF BISMUTH.
When
(BasiC.)
dissolved in a sufficient quantity of

is poured into a given amount
of water, a heavy, white precipitate (the subnitrate of bismuth] is
thrown down. After some hours the water is decanted, and the salt
metallic
dilute nitric acid,
bismutli
is
and the solution
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dried on blotting-paper. It is a heavy, white powder, slightly soluble

in water, with a slight acid taste. Test for arsenic and antimony.
Form
fifth
Transferred to dilutions at
decimal.
BLATTA AMERICANA.
THE ROACH.
BOLETUS LARICIS.
POLYPORUS OFFICINALIS. LARCH FUNGUS.
fungus of the mushroom family found growing upon the trunk
of
the larch. It varies in size from a child's fist to that of a child's head.
It has a spongy substance, is reddish or brownish in color externally,
white and fleshy within, and possesses a sweetish, bitter taste. It is
very
difficult to triturate, as it
fore
recommended
condenses under the pestle, it is thereand sifted through a fine seive, before
to be grated
triturating.
Active principles.
ates sohible in
Boletic acid (fumaric acid), bolaretus.
water, but none of them soluble
Fumar-
in strong alcohol.
Part used. The entire fungus from which the outer coat has been
removed.
Form
two weeks.

Filter.
part in
Trituration.
BOLETUS SATAKUS.
A CRYPTOGAM.
A fungus growing in old wood during the summer and autumn.

The head is large add tough, pale yellow, and pierced with reddish
pores- The stalk is thick and deep red.
Part used. The entire fungus.
Form
Transferred to water at
decimal or third centesimal.
BOLETUS PINUS.
BOMBYX CHRYSOKRHCEA.
The brown-tailed moth.
Tincture of the living catapillar.
BOMBYX PROCESSIONEA.
THE PROCESSION MOTH.
fifth
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ACIDUM BORACICUM.
BORACIC ACID.
BO3, 3H2O.
acid found native in the crater of a volcano in the Lipan
islands, and quite abundantly in a volcanic region in Tuscany. It
also has been found to exist in the sea water oft the coast of California. The greatest export is made from Tuscany, where enclosures
tilled with water are built around hillocks that emit volcanic gases.
This water becomes impregnated with the acid vapor and is drawn
off, concentrated and allowed to crystallize.
It is impure, containing
This
is ail
alum, ammonium, magnesium and lime, and requires repeated crystallization for its purification.
Form
of
Saturated
drous in water, crystalline variety in alcohol.
medium
solution
anhy-
Transfer to either
at third decimal.
BORAX. (See Natrum
Boracicum.
BOTHROPS LANCEOLATUS.
THE MARTINIQUE VIPER.
BO VISTA.
WARTED PUFF BALL.
The lycoperdon bovista is a fungus growing in Europe, on dead
wood and dry soils. It is globe shaped, having a very short stem,
smooth, soft and yellowish white wiien young, and finally brown. At
tirst it is white and juicy internally, changing in time to a white
cotton-like substance, becoming brownish-black, and dissipated in a
cloud-like smoke when the fungus is struck. August and September
are the months when it should be gathered.
Form
of preparation. Trituration, only the contents of the ball can
be used for this purpose, as the envelope cannot be pulverized.

ture
may
be
made
with dilute alcohol.
Tinc-
Macerated two weeks and
filtered.
BRACHYGLOTTIS REPENS.
PUKA-PUKA.
shrub, sometimes a tree twenty feet high, growing in the northern island of New Zealand, and having broad, indented, glossy leaves,
downy on the under surface. The flowers are large, clustered and
fragrant.
Part used. Green leaves and flowers.
Form

two pans of alcohol, two weeks filter.
the green leaves and flowers in
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BROMIUM.
BROMINE.
Br.
This element is widely distributed in nature, existing in the

"bittern" of salt works, in sea water, salt springs, and in certain
plants and marine animals. When obtained, bromine is a dark red
liquid, strong and disagreeable to the smell, with a caustic, astringent
very volatile, soluble in strong alcohol and ether, less so
and bleaches vegetable substances. It stains the skin
yellow, at the same time deadening and destroying it gives off red
fumes and at 4F., becomes a hard, brittle substance.
taste.
It is
in water,
Form
of preparation. Saturated solution in alcohol.
Transfer to
water at third decimal.
BRUCEA ANTIDYSENTERICA.
BRUCE A. FALSE ANGUSTURA.
This
is
called false angustura bark, but there is
The name
some doubt about
retained because its source is not yet definbut

it
is
supposed,
however, to have been the bark of the
itely settled,
strychnos nux vomica, as this corresponds very closely with the
bush growing in Abyssinia is
description of the false angustura.
said to have claims for recognition as false angustura. The bark
comes in rolls, sometimes in flat pieces, varying in thickness, mostly
covered with a spongy, rust-colored and white-grey coating, and
numerous yellow blister-like projections. Upon the fractured surface
the bark is smooth, woody and yellow, externally darker, internally
lighter, but not resinous. The inner surface is dark grey, sometimes
dirty yellow. Compare with angustura vera.
its origin.
is
Active principles.
Angusturin, (cusparin).
Form
of preparation.
Tincture
the bark in five of alcohol
two weeks, and
part of
filtering.
BRUCINUM.
VOMICIN. CANARAMIN.
(23H26N2 08 +7Aq.
BRTJCINE.
A crystallizable alkaloid
from the bark and seeds of the strychnos

galipese, bitter to the taste, and some-
nux vomica, angustura, and the

what analogous to strychnine.
Form
of preparation.
decimal.
Trituration.
Transferrable to water at
fifth
Tincture by saturated solution in alcohol.
BRYONIA ALBA.
WHITE BRYONY.
This
is
a climbing herbaceous plant, quite frequent in France and
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Germany, where
it is often seen growing in hedges and thickets.

The
leaves are alternate, heart shaped, tive-lobed, rough and tuberculous
on both surfaces the flowers are small and yellowish the berries are
clack, and about the size of a pea the root is large, often the size of
;
an arm or thigh, a foot or two in length, wrinkled in a circular

tion, and has a bitter, disagreeable taste.
direc-
Active principles. Bryonin, bryonitin.

Form
made by expressing
the juice from
the root before the plant flowers, then adding an equal part of alcohol.
Also by macerating in four parts alcohol and one of
two weeks, and
Altering.
on addition of alcohol.
distilled water,
Tincture by expression will deposit starch
Filter in three to five days after.
BUFO.
THE TOAD.
BUFO SATYRIENSIS.
A SOUTH AMERICAN TOAD.
BUXUS SEMPEKYIRENS.
BOX.
a native of Europe and Asia, but is cultivated in
all parts of this country, as an ornament.
The leaves are egg-shaped,
cones dark green and shining; the flowers are pale yellow. It is
generally shrubby, but if allowed to grow, it becomes a tree. The
wood is hard and close grained, and is mainly used for carving and
engraving. Infusion of the wood affects the perspiratory glands.
This evergreen
is
Active principles.
Buxine, (identical with
beerin,
from metandra).
Form
made by maceration
the leaves in two of alcohol, two weeks
CACAO.
THEOBROMA CACAO.
A large tree
of one part of
filter.
COCOA.
from twelve to twenty feet in height, growing in the

and other tropical countries. The fruit is round or
oblong, six or eight inches long, and five in width, covered with fibres
and enclosing a milky liquor, a white pulp, and a number of seeds.
West
Indies,
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The latter are aromatic, bitter, oily, and are made to yield chocolate
and cocoa butter. The shells of the nuts are frequently used as a substitute tor chocolate.
Active principle. Theobromin, quite insoluble in water or alcohol,

oil
of theobroma.
Form
of
preparation. Trituration of the seeds.
Transfer to dilution at
fifth
No
tincture.
Decoction.
decimal.
CACTUS GRANDIFLORU8.
NIGHT BLOOMING CEREUS.
This species of cactus is found in Mexico and the West India
islands, and sometimes met with in conservatories in this country.
The stems are round, and have five or six prominent ribs studded with
small, radiating spines. The flowers are large, being eight inches or
more in diameter, with large, white petals. The peculiarity of this
flower is that it expands only at night, exhaling a sweet odor something like benzoic acid or vanilU. The fruit is oval, covered with
scaly tubercles, orange red, and contains a number of small seeds
having an acrid taste.
Fart used.
Young shoots and
Form
preparation. Tincture
of
flowers, or entire plant
if
young.
made by macerating,
weeks, one part in four of alcohol, and
for
four
filtering.
CADMIUM MURIATICUM.
CHLORIDE OF CADMIUM.
CdCl2.
A very soluble salt, crystallizing
in small, four sided prisms.
It is
formed from cadmium, a white metal resembling tin, generally

accompanying the ores of zinc. Soluble in water and alcohol. Deliquescent.
Form
Tincture
made by
saturated
solution in either menstrua, separate.
CADMIUM SULPHUR ATUM.

GRKENOKITE.
SULPHIDE OF CADMIUM.
CdS.
mineral known in nature as greenokite, and artificially formed

sulphuretted hydrogen gas is passed through a solution of the
sulphate, nitrate, or chloride of cadmium. It is of a bright yellow
color, and as a coloring matter possesses great brilliancy and permanence. Insoluble.
when
Form
decimal.
of
preparation Triturations.
Dilution
made with
fifth
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CAINCA.
CAHINCA.
a Brazilian plant growing six or eight feet high, and bearing
whitish flower. It is sometimes seen in the West India Islands.
The root is about the thickness of a goose qnill, marked with furrows
of a dark color, and covered with a brown, resinous bark. Beneath
this is a fleshy portion, and below this is a white wood. The odor of
This
is
the root
is
strong,
and similar
to valerian.
Active principles. Caincic acid, (cainca-bitter), soluble in alcohol

Form
of preparation.
Tincture
the root, two weeks, in five of

light
brown
color
and a

alcohol. Filter. The tincture has a
repulsive, bitter taste.
CAJUPUTUM.
CAJEPUT.
a small, slender tree growing in the Moluccas and adjacent
The tree has a white bark, crooked stem and scattered
brandies, the twigs of which droop like those of the weeping willow.
The leaves are lance-shaped, deep green, and from three to five inches
long. The bark which is in plates, is very thick and ash colored. The
flowers are small, white, and non-odorous.
green, volatile and
is
obtained
from
the
inflammable oil
leaves by distillation, and
exported as a medicinal substance. The quantity obtained is small
and it is often adulterated with oil of rosemary.
This
is
islands.
Active principles. Oil of cajeput (a carbohydrate of cajeputene)

cajeputene
itself insoluble in alcohol
Part used.
Form
or water.
The oil from the leaves.
the third decimal.
CALADIUM SEQUINUM.
POISONOUS ARUM.
A bush growing on wet and marshy land in the vicinity of Parimarand the marshes of the Sumiam river. The stem is four or five
and contains a large amount of milky juice. The fluid
makes an indellible stain when touched to linen, and if applied to the
tongue, causes swelling, inflammation and loss of speech. The plant
ibo,
feet high,
is
found in hot houses under the name of trepenberchia.

Form
made by macerating one part
parts of alcohol two weeks, and filtering.
in
two
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CALCAREA ACETICA.
ACETATE OF LIME.
CaO, Ci H3 03.
is not frequently used, inasmuch as
few points of difference from the carbonate, except its
This salt of lime
it
possesses
solubility in
water. It is not triturated. It is procured by boiling oyster shells

(previously cleansed in boiling water) wdth dilute acetic acid, and the
fluid evaporated to one-fifth its bulk. The solution is then a deep
yellow, precipitating a brownish mucilage on standing, after which the
clear liquor is decanted, mixed with an equal bulk of dilute alcohol,
and
filtered.
Form
of preparation. Tincture, by saturated solution, as under-
stood by the above preparation, transferring to alcohol after the sec-
ond decimal,
if
desired.
CALCAREA ARSENITA.
ARSENITE OF LIME.
3Ca03, 2As04.
Insoluble in water that contains hydrate of lime in solution, to
it is liable.
One variety, (basic) soluble in aqueous solution of
arsenious acid.
which
Forms
of preparation. Trituration to the fifth decimal or third
centesimal
may then be transferred to water.

CALCAREA CARBONICA.
CALCAREA OSTREARIA. CARBONATE OF LIME.
CaCOs.
This substance is widely distributed, and occurs in great abundance.

met with as limestone, constituting hills, bluffs and mountains,
exists in vast beds, and is one of the ingredients of sea, river and well
water. It composes marbles, chalk, stalactite, the skeleton of animals, shells, spars, and is a constituent of the various mineral springs.
It is contained in all the varieties of coral, the egg shell, the bodies
known as crab's eyes, and the different animal fluids and solids. The
substances known as petrifactions are produced by the presence of
this mineral in excess. Carbonate of lime, produced by precipitation,
and held suspended in the water in considerable quantity, is known as
milk of lime. See calc. caustica.
It is
Part used. The oyster
shell.
Form
A well
of preparation.
a wooden mallet, and from

pieces are selected.
cleansed oyster shell
among
These are reduced
sugar of milk in the usual way.

uration.
is
bruised with
the fragments the inner snow-white

to powder,
Dilution with
and
triturated with
fifth
decimal
trit-
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CALCAREA CAUSTICA
AQUA
CALCIS.
LIME WATER.
CaO+Aq.
Lime water when pure
a colorless liquid, having a caustic taste,

and the odor of lime. On exposure to the air, it attracts carbonic acid
from the atmosphere, forming a thin layer of carbonate of lime on the
surface, or turns cloudy or even milky.
Form
slaked).
used.
is
of preparation. Saturated
Keep some undissolved
Do not filter
in
"lime" (hydrated,
bottle, and decant when
solution of
bottom of
cork well, but do not " seal " the bottle.
CALCAREA FLUORICA.
FLUORIDE OF LIME.
CaFl2
This occurs in nature as the mineral fluor spar, and
of cubic or octohedral crystals, having various colors.
with in lead veins.
Form
is
in the shape
It is often
Dilution in water with
met
fifth
decimal.
CALCAREA CHLORINATA.
CHLORINATED LIME
CaCl2 +Cln (or CaCl2 +CaCl3
O2.)
Chlorinated lime is a coarse, grayish -white, slightly moist powder,

possessing a hot, bitter, astringent taste. It is a combination resulting from the action of chlorine gas upon hydrated lime. It gives
off an odor of chlorine, dissolves fi*eely in water, and is a useful disinfectant and bleaching agent.
Form
of preparation. Solution in water,
CALCAREA
and
dilutions.
HYPOPHOSPHITA.
HYPOPHOSPHITB OF LIME.
CaO, 2HOPO.
This salt is procured by mixing slaked lime, water, and crude phosphorus, and boiling the whole together. The phosphate and h3rpophosphite of lime are formed during this process, the former falling as
a precipitate, and the latter remaining in solution, while the inflammable gas, phosphoretted hydrogen, is vaporized. To obtain the
hypophosphite, the filtered solution
Form
is
for dilutions.
evaporated to crystallization.
Saturated solution of crystals
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83
CALCAREA lODIDA.
IODIDE OF CALCIUM.
IODIDE OF LIME.
Cal.
To
a strong, fresh solution of carbonate of lime, (milk of lime), add

will form an insoluble carbonate, as
or
iron.
The
lead
or iron is precipitated as a carbonate.
iodide of lead
The liquid holds iodide of lime in solution. Filter, evaporate slowly.
any soluble iodide whose base
White crystals, lustrous like pearl, when

Very soluble and deliquescent.
Form
of the saturated solution in water,
pure.
Decomposed
readily.
Better to start with a tincture
and use undiluted alcohol
in dilu-
tions to the tenth decimal.
CALCAREA OXALATA.
OXALATE OF LIME.
Ca"C2 O4
This
is
(in crystals
formed wherever oxalate
+4
aqua).
acid, or oxalic in solution is
to a soluble calcium salt, falling as a white precipitate.
and
substitution product, Ca" taking the place of

Soluble in 500,000 parts of water.
dry.
acid.
Form
Do not transfer to
added
wash
Filter,
Hg
in oxalic
water before
the sixth decimal.
CALCAREA PHOSPHORICA.
PHOSPHATE OF LIME.
3CaO, PO5.
mixture of the basic and other phosphates of lime obtained by

dropping dilute phosphoric acid into lime water as long as a white
precipitate falls. It also occurs in nature as the mineral appatite, and
a component part of the osseous structure in animals. Water dissolves out a portion and leaves others.
Form
CALCAREA MURIATICA.
CHLORIDE OF LIME.
CaCls.
Prepared when muriatic acid is saturated with pure carbonate of

lime, (marble) and evaporated to dryness. It exists ready- formed in
the waters of the ocean, and some mineral springs. It is a very deliquescent salt, hard, translucent, and in masses. It is soluble in both
water and alcohol, and when mixed with powdered snow or ice, produces a great degree of cold.
Form of preparation. Saturated

for dilutions.
solution in either water or alcohol,
Do not mix the two solvents.
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CALCAREA SULPHURICA.
GYPSUM, SULPHATE OF LIME. SELENITE.
CaO, SOa (calcium sulphate CaSOi.
found in large masses and in beds covering an extended
area,
This is
associated
with
rock
salt.
a
common
sometimes being
It is also
ingredient of spring water. In the crystalline form it constitutes the
mineral selenite. To obtain it artificially, sulphuric acid is mixed with
a concentrated solution of chloride of calcium, the new salt falling as
a white precipitate. Gypsum, dehydrated by heat, is " plaster of
Paris."
Form
May
be transferred to dilu-
tions after the fifth decimal.
CALENDULA OFFICINALIS.
MARIGOLD.
The home
of this plant is in the south of Europe, but it is also

in all parts of this country. The stem is angular, rising
about two feet high, with oval or spatula- shaped, pale green leaves.
common
flowers are large, orange-yellow, and have a bituminous odor and

a bitter taste. They are said to emit sparks during hot weather,
resembling those of electricity. (?)
The
Part used. The leaves and flowers.
Form
of preparation. Tincture, light brownish-yellow color,
made
by expressing the juice from the leaves and flowers gathered in
summer, then adding an equal part of alcohol. Also by macerating

in five parts of alcohol for two weeks, and filtering. Dilutions with
alcohol to the third decimal.
CALTHA PALUSTRIS.
AMERICAN COWSLIP.
known as the marsh marigold, grows
This plant, also

in low, wet
meadows. The flowers are cup-shaped, golden yellow, and measure
one and a half inches in diameter.
Form
made by expressing
the juice of the
whole plant when in flower, then adding an equal part of alcohol.
CAMPHORA.
CAMPHOR.
OXIDE OF CAMPHENE.
Cao Hl6 O2.
This is a product of laurus camphora, an evergreen tree growing

throughout Asia and the island of Formosa. Other plants have camphor gums, but they are specified by the name of the plant. The
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PHAR]VIACOP(ETA.
85
trunk
is straight, freely branching with ribbed, smooth, sliining, yellowish-green leaves. The flowers are white and disposed in clusters, and
the fruit is a red berry. The tree abounds in a gum resin obtained by
cutting the wood into chips, and subliming in covered metal or
earthen dishes by the aid of steam. There are several native processes.
It is afterward purified by resublimation. Camphor is a white, translucent, inflammable, volatile, tough, crystalline substance, sometimes
granular, generally in masses, with a penetrating diffusive odor, and a
peculiar, pungent taste. Isomeric with caryophyllin and ursone. It is
readily precipitated from the alcoholic solution, by the addition of
water.
Form
made by a saturated solution in

camphor is made by dissolving equal
Kubini's tincture of
alcohol.
is
camphor and alcohol, and filtering. Trituration.

pulverizable by pouring a few drops of alcohol on the gum.
parts of
Keadily
CAMPHORA MONOBROMICA.
MONOBROMATE OF CAMPHOR.
C20Hl5BrO3,
Prepared by heating bromine and camphor together for several
hours in a sealed tube at a temperature of 212F. The crystalline
mass resulting is washed, filtered through animal charcoal, recrystallized with alcohol, washed with an alcoholic solution of potassa,
afterward with water, and is then crystallized from a mixed solution
of alcohol
and
ether.
It is a white, crystalline substance, soluble in
alcohol, insoluble in water,
and having a campborous, bromine-like
smell.
Form
CANCER FLUVIATILIS.
THE CRAB.
This crustacean
is
found in rivers and small streams.
Part used. The living animal.
Form
of
preparation. Tincture made by pounding the living
animal, and covering
it
with three parts of alcohol, allowing
macerate for seven or eight days, then decant and
it
to
filter.
CANCHALAGUA.
plant of the gentian family, indigenous to California, where it is

frequently used as a domestic remedy. It is also met with in South
America.
It is
a small, grass-like plant, with lance-shaped leaves,
and small, red blossoms, resembling those
of the forget-me-not,
generally grows in patches.
and
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Form
whole plant when in flower, in
C ANN A
five of alcohol.
part of the
Filter.
AUG USTIFOLI A.
A plant growing about six feet high and found in Brazil, chiefly on
wet lands near running water. The stem rises from a rhizome, and
presents a number of knots from each of which large, alternate leaves
are given off. The flowers are situated at the summit.
Form
made by expressing
the juice from
the fresh plant in flower, then adding an equal quantity of alcohol.
CANNA GLAUCA.
IMBIRI.
tuberous plant, native to the West Indies, and cultivated in the

island of St. Kitt and Trinidad. It rises to a height of five or six feet,
with smooth, purplish stems, and long, oval, dark green leaves, with
purple edges. The flowers are small and red, or yellowish in color.
The tubers which
are larger than a double
fist,
yield a very superior
starch.
Form
leaves in five of alcohol.
part of the
Filter.
CANNABIS INDICA.
INDIAN HEMP.
This variety of hemp grows in India and Persia, at an altitude from
six to ten thousand feet above tide water. Botanists are agreed that
there is but little difference between it and the indigenous or cultivated cannabicese, so far as appearance goes, but the climate or soil,
or both, develop a peculiar principle, lacking in those grown in more
temperate latitudes. It is from four to eight feet high, the stems and
branches being covered with a sticky, resinous exudation.
The
flowers are small, greenish
and
solitary.
The
fruit is oval
and con-
After flowering, the tops of the plants are cut off

and tied in bundles. In India this is called gunjah. The Arab hasheesh plant is the same thing. Bang is the name given to the leaves
and capsules when mixed together, and churrus is the resin gathered
from the plant. These are all used for smoking, either alone or mixed
with tobacco, to induce a pleasant, delirious state. The fibres of the
plant are stronger than flax, and are used in the manufacture of ropes,
tains a single seed.
cordage, etc.
Active principles. Cannabin, a resin soluble in alcohol

Part used.
Form
The young leaves and twigs or
volatile oil.
tops.
dried tops in five of dilute alcohol, and filtering.
part of the
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CANNABIS SATIVA.
HEMP.
native of Persia and the Caucasus, but cultivated in both hemispheres. It is similar in general appearance to the cannabis indica. It
is usually about six or eight feet high, and bears male and female
flowers. The latter are considered to contain a better quality of the
active principles than the former. The fibres are stout, and are made
into rope, twine, etc.
Part used. The leaves and young twigs.
Form of preparation. Tincture, of a dark, greenish-brown color,

made by expressing the juice from the flowering tops, then adding an
equal part of alcohol. Tincture made by macerating one part of the
dried tops, in five of dilute alcohol, two weeks.
CANTHAEIS VESICATORIA.
SPANISH FLY.
An
inhabiting western Asia, Spain, Italy, the south of

France and the Mediterranean countries. It is from half an inch to
an inch long, and of a greenish-golden color. The head is large, heart
shaped, and furnished with two black antennae. The wings are brown
and membranous, and covered by long, flexible, yet firm sheathes.
The larva are hatched in the ground, and feed on the roots of plants
until hatched, when swarms attach themselves to the trees; great
numbers being made to fall by beating the branches with a pole, are
received on spreading cloths, and afterward killed with the fumes of
boiling vinegar, or by plunging them in the boiling liquid. They are
afterward dried, and packed so as to exclude all moisture.
insect
Active principles.
green
substance
crystalline, vesicating
peculiar
oil.
Part used. The entire insect.
Form of
preparation. Tincture, greenish -yellowish,
ating one part of the
in five of dilute alcohol
flies
made by macer-
filter.
Trituration.
CAPSICUM ANNUUM.
CAYENNE PEPPER.
This plant is a native of tropical Asia and America, growing about
two or three feet high, and bearing an orange or scarlet pod. It is
also met with in Africa, and the East and West Indies. Some variekitchen garden. The pods are red, long,
about the size of one's finger, conical at either end, enclosing white, kidney-shaped seeds. When the pods are powdered, they
form the condiment known as red pepper, and have a fiery, burning
ties are cultivated in the
shrivelled,
taste, lasting a
long time.
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Active principles. Capsicin, a resin

Part used. The pods and seeds.
a supposed alkaloid; pectin.
Form
of preparation. Trituration. Tincture made by macerating

one part of the pods, in five of dilute alcohol, and filtering. Color
varies from yellowish, to pomegrauate red. Dilute largely for exter-
at least four times.
nal use
CARBO ANIMALIS.
ANIMAL CHARCOAL.
This is simply animal matter reduced to charcoal. It has been
made from fresh meat, blood, white of egg, glue, etc., but more frequently from bones. When made from the latter it is specifically
known as bone black, which is usually understood by the words carbo
animalis. For Homoeopathic pharmacy it is prepared from raw ox
hide.
Form
of preparation.
A thick
piece of ox hide
is
allowed to burn
between red hot coals until the flame ceases. While yet glowing, it is
removed from the fire and instantly extinguished by pressing it
between two hard, plane surfaces, (stones, slabs, etc.) This is triturated in the usual way, and
may
be transferred to dilutions after the
sixth decimal.
CARBO YEGETABILIS.
VEGETABLE CHARCOAL.
is obtained by the incomplete combustion of wood.
It is
and inodorous, black, porous, and breaks with a shining fracture. For medical purposes it should be brittle, have a metallic lustre,
present the fracture of the wood, and bum without smoke. Only that
which has been completely " carbonized " should be used. Beech and
willow woods are employed, also boxwood, which produces a very fine
Charcoal
tasteless
coal.
Form
of preparation. Triturations.
May
tions after the sixth decimal.
CARBOLIC ACID.
ACIDUM CARBOLICUM. PHENOL. HYDRATED OXIDE OF PHENYL.
PHENIC ACID. PHENYLLIC ACID. PHENYLLIC ALCOHOL. SPIROL.
SALICON.
C12H6 O2 or C6 H5 O, HO.
One
of the products evolved during the distillation of coal tar, and

by heating salicylic acid in a glass
also procured in the laboratory
phenol passing over into the receiver and crystallizing. In

the pure state, and at ordinary temperatures, it is in the form of white
crystalline plates or needles, having a burning, acrid taste, and the
retort, the
HOMCEOPATHIC
odor of kreosote.
PHARMACOPCEIA.
8&
These crystals absorb water from the atmosphere

it becomes entirely liquified.
It is soluble in
so greedily that in time
twenty parts of water,
(after liquefaction), freely soluble in alcohol,
It has the property of
ether, or glycerine.
checking putrefaction, ani-
mal or vegetable.
Form
of
preparation. Saturated solution in water tor tincture.
First or second dilution for outward application.
CARBONEUM.
LAMPBLACK.
This form of carbon is produced by the imperfect combustion of
Soot from the flame of a kerosene lamp is used.
oils
or resins.
Form
May
be transferred to dilution
after the sixth decimal.
CARBONEUM CHLORATUM.
TETRACHLORIDE OF CARBON.
ecu
colorless liquid, formed by passing the vapors of chlorine and

bisulphide of carbon through a red hot porcelain tube. The product
is distilled with potassa, during which chloride of sulphur is decomposed, and the tetrachloride of carbon passes over and condenses in
the receiver.
Form
Water may be used
is
a saturated solution in alcohol.
in the fifth decimal
and
after.
CARBONEUM HYDROGENISATUM.
CARBURETTED HYDROGEN.
C3H4
a colorless, neutral, gaseous body, slightly
and ether, having an odor like
and burning with a brilliant white light. It is one of the con-
Ethene, or defiant gas,

soluble in water, but
garlic,
common
is
more
so in alcohol
is formed when alcohol and

and the vapor, passed through
two wash bottles, one containing potassa, the other sulphuric acid, and
finally collected over the pneumatic trough.
stituents of
oil of
Form
May
illuminating gas. It
vitriol are distilled together,
of preparation. Saturated solution in alcohol for tincture.
be transferred to water at third decimal.
CARBONEUM OXYGENISATUM.
CARBONOUS OXIDE. PROTOXIDE OF CARBON.
CO.
This poisonous, inflammable gas may be seen during the combustion of anthracite coal, burning upon the surface with a pale blue
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rtame.
may
be procured artificially by heating together in a retort

powdered ferrocyanide of potassium and sulphuric acid. A large
amount of the gas is given off, and collected by the pneumatic trough.
It
CARBONEUM SULPHURATUM.
ALCOHOL SULPHURIS LAMPADII. BISULPHIDE OF CARBON.
(See Alcohol sulphuris, p. 39.)
CARDUUS BENEDICTUS.
BLESSED THISTLE.
Persia, Greece, and Southern Europe, but infrequent
is an herbaceous plant, about two feet high, branching
native of
elsewhere. It
at the top, with elliptical, rough, irregularly toothed leaves, barbed
with sharp points at their edges.
Part used. The whole plant, when in flower.
Form
made by
the fresh plant, then adding an equal part of alcohol.
CARDUUS MARIANUS.
ST.
MARY'S THISTLE.
MILK THISTLE.
This is a plant confined almost entirely to southern Europe, and

grows about two feet high. The leaves are smooth, shining, traversed
by white veins, and have prickly lobes. The flowers are large,
solitary, drooping and purplish.
The thistle contains very little silk.
The root is bitter, and the young leaves sour.
Active principles.Volatile
Part used.
Form
oil,
centaurin or cnicin.
The whole plant when in
flower.
made by macerating
for eight days
one part of the pi ant in two parts of alcohol diluted one-fourth with
water; light brown color,
little taste.
CARYA ALBA.
SHELL BARK. HICKORY NUT.
tlantic and western states, and is

This tree grows throughout the
The
tall, often reaching a height of fifty feet, sometimes more.
bark is rough, shaggy, and in the form of plates, separated from the
trunk at either extremity, and adhering only by the middle portion.
The wood is strong, tough and elastic, and extensively used in the
manufacture of axe helves, whip stocks, etc., where these qualities
are required. The fruit encloses a hard, woody nut, containing an
quite
edible kernel.
Part used. The inner bark.
Form
of preparation. Tincture by macerating the inner bark in
two parts of
dilute alcohol
two weeks, and
filtering.
HOMCEOPATfilC PHARMACOPCEIA.
&1
CASCARILLA ELUTEKIA.
CROTON ELUTERIA. CASCARILLA BARK.
There has been some confusion as to the species from which this
bark is derived, but it is now determined to be the croton eluteria. This
is a bush or small tree growing in the Bahamas, especially the island
of Eleuteria. The leaves are long, narrow, pointed, bright green
above, and of a silvery whiteness beneath. The flowers are disposed
When
in long terminal spikes, and possess a delightful fragrance.
imported in this country, the bark is in the shape of irregular, quilllike pieces, two or three inches in length. These are of a dull red or
reddish-brown color, and more or less covered with a grayish-white
lichen. The odor is aromatic, and the taste bitter, hot and spicy. If
thrown on burning coals, it burns freely, diffusing a pleasant, fragrant
odor.
Active principles. Cascarilla
oil (essence), cascarillin.
Form
part of
the bark in five of alcohol, two weeks, and filtering.
CASSAVA.
MANDIOCA. JATROPHA.
known as cassava in the West Indies, and tapioca
TAPIOCA.
CASSAVA.
in
This plant is
grows about six or eight feet high, and has a large, fleshy root,
weighing twenty or thirty pounds. This root, after undergoing the
processes of washing, scraping and grinding, drying, etc., is exported
in the form of irregular, rough, white grains, having little or no taste
and but slightly soluble in water. It is employed as a dietetic both for
Brazil,
and general use. There are two varieties of the plant, the
sweet and the bitter. The root of the former is innocuous, but of the
latter contains a milky, very poisonous juice. It has been ascertained
by experiment to contain hydrocyanic acid. This poisonous principle
is very volatile, and may be driven off by heat, leaving the root
invalids
innocuous.
Active principles. Hydrocyanic acid, volatile

Part used. The
Form
oil.
root.
part of the
bitter root in five of alcohol.
CASTANEA VESCA.
THE CHESTNUT.
This tree equals in size the largest forest trees, and although distributed over the Atlantic states, is most abundant in Pennsylvania and
New Jersey. The leaves are very large, averaging six inches in
length, and two in width. These are brilliant in color, irregularly
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and tough in texture. The flowers are whitish and

arranged on peduncles several inches long. The fruit is a spherical
burr, armed with prickly spines, radiating in every direction. It contains two or three brown plano-convex nuts having a firm, white
serrated, firm
kernel.
Form
two of very
ative), for
dilute alcohol, (or water with alcohol
two weeks.
part in
added as preserv-
Filter.
CASTOR EQUI.
This
a small, flat, oblong, rough, dark, horny substance, seen

growing on the inner side of the horse's leg above the " fetlock." It
is the rudimentary thumb-nail of the horse.
is
Form
CASTOREUM
SIBIRICUM.
CASTOR FIBRE. THE BEAVER.
This animal furnishes a peculiar secretion formed in two membraneous, pear-shaped follicles situated between the external genitals and
the anus. This product is of an oily, viscid, highly odorous nature,
but when received in ^.he market it is a solid, black or reddish-brown
substance contained in wrinkled, flattened sacs. It is collected and
exported from Russia, but considerable quantities are obtained from
Missouri and the Hudson Bay territory. Age and moisture impair its
virtues, and its adulteration is largely practiced. It has been ascertained to contain eighteen proximate principles.
Active principles. Oil of castoreum; castorin; Salicin; volatile

oils
salts of calcium, potassa
Form
and soda.
of preparation. Trituration of the substance. Tincture
by macerating one part of the dried secretion in

weeks.
Filter.
made
five of alcohol,
two
Ethereal extract contains more castorin.
CAULOPHYLLUM THALICTROIDES.
BLUE COHOSH. SQUAW ROOT.
perennial glabrous herb with matted, knotted rootstalks, from

single stem arises to the height of two feet. Near the summit
this divides into two portions, one bearing large leaves and greenish
yellow flowers, the other being simply a leaf stalk. The fruit is sweet
and insipid the seeds about the size of a pea are young and deep blue
when ripe. The root is irregular, knotty, branched, pungent to the
taste, and has a fragrant odor. The plant is found growing in all parts
of the country, in moist, rich grounds, deep woods, near running
which a
streams and on wet lands.
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Active priaciple. The alkaloid caulophyllin.
Part used. The
Form
root in
root.
two

two weeks, then
parts of dilute alcohol,
part of the
filter.
CAUSTICUM.
HYDRATE OF POTASH. CAUSTIC POT VSSA. KALI PURUM. POTASSA.
K2 0,H2 0, orHKO.
Boil potash solution with quick heat in untinned iron or silver
and cools solid on a glass
rod
or until boiling ceases, and potash melts.
Caustic potash
destroys animal tissue. It is called " Kali acris sine,'''' potash without
vessel, until the fluid is viscid or syrupy,
name obsolete now.

Porm of preparation. Solution
acid, a
of pure caustic potassa in five parts
Dilutions in water or alcohol.
of dilute alcohol.
CEANOTHUS AMERICANUS.
RED ROOT.
JERSEY TEA.
A small
shrub about three or four feet high, growing in patches,

particularly abundant in New Jersey. The root is dark red in color,
and imparts its color to water, and sometimes is used for coloring.
The leaves are egg-shaped, bright green in summer, but changing to
a bright red in autumn. The flowers are white, and arranged in clusters were used as a substitute for tea.
;
Form
the fresh leaves in
two of
dilute alcohol, one week.
part of
Filter.
CEDRON.
CEDRON.
The Simaba cedron is a small tree growing in New Grenada and

Central America, rarely exceeding six inches in diameter. The top is
branching, has large leaves and covered with pale brown flowers.
The fruit has one edge convex, the other nearly flat, is of a yellowishash color, and contains a single seed about an inch and a half long,
and half an inch in thickness. It has no odor, but possesses an
intense bitter taste. It has quite a reputation among the natives for
its asserted virtues in snake bites and hydrophobia.
Active principles. Cedrin.
Form
of preparation. Trituration of the seeds.
macerating one part of the seeds in

Filter.
The
Tincture,
five of dilute alcohol
made by
two weeks.
tincture has a light brown-yellow color, having a green-
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ish opalescence in reflected light.
It has a strong, bitter,
and long-
lasting taste.
CENTAUREA TAGANA.
CERASUS VIRGINIANA.
CHOKE CHERRY.
small tree from five to twenty feet high, growing in woods and
hedges in the northern states of this country, having a grayish bark,
round white flowers, and a dark red globular fruit, very astringent to
the taste. The bark of the tree has often been used for the prunus
virginiana or wild cherry, but it isôw admitted to be a distinct
species.
Form
of preparation. Tincture of the bark.
part of bark to five parts of water
and one part of
added after two weeks maceration, then

alcohol has been added two days,
if
Aqueous
filtering.
tincture,
one
dilute alcohol
Refiltering after
a sediment appears.
CERIUM OXALATUM.
OXALATE OF CERIUM.
2CeO, C4 06 +6H0.
salt prepared from the metal cerium, by treating the minerals

containing it until the basic sulphate of the peroxide is formed. This
sulphate is dissolved in strong sulphuric acid, the solution digested
with hyposulphite of sodium, filtered, and lastly treated with a solution
of oxalic acid. The precipitate thrown down is the oxalate of cerium
this is a granular white powder, possessing neither smell nor taste.
;
Form
fifth
Transfer to dilutions after the
decimal.
CEREUS BONPLANDI.
A SPECIES OF GRANDIFLORUS.
Tart used. The stems.
Form
of preparation. Tincture.
CEREUS SERPENTINUS.
SNAKE CACTUS.
This species is a native of South America, and receives its name
from its creeping nature and angular form. The round stem is from
two to five feet long, about the size of the little finger, and articulated
so as to give it a snake-like appearance. The flowers are bright pink,
attain a large size, and continue in bloom for several days.
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Part used. The stems.
Form
part of
the stems in five of alcohol, two weeks, and filtering.
CEKVUS BRAZILIENSIS.
A BRAZILIAN DEER.
Part used. The hide covered with hair.
Form
of preparation. Trituration. (?)
CHAMOMILLA.
MATRICARIA CHAMOMILLA. FEVERFEW.
This annual is a native of Europe, but is occasionally seen in the
flower gardens of this country. It prefers a gravelly soil, and grows
in both cultivated and uncultivated lands. It is about two feet high,
has a branching stem, and bears a profusion of flowers, composed of
white petals and a yellow disc. Those used ofiicinally are imported
from Germany.
Active principle.Oleum anthemidis,
quercitron,
crystallizable
principle.
when in flower.
preparation. Tincture, made by macerating one
Part used. The whole plant
Form
of
five of dilute alcohol one
taste
and odor of the
week, and
filtering.
part in
Greenish-brown color
plant.
CHELIDONIUM MAJUS.
GREAT CELANDINE.
This plant is seen growing about old houses, and on rocky, stony
ground, in various parts of this country. It has evidently become
naturalized here, since it is native to Europe and some parts of Asia.
It reaches a height of one or two feet, has a bright yellow flower, and
contains a yellow juice which is poured out whenever any part of the
plant is wounded. This fluid is contained in a special set of vessels,
and when removed from the plant stains yellow, becoming brown or
brownish-black on continued exposure. The fruit is a knotted capsule, containing numerous shining black, pitted seeds.
,
Active principles. Chelidonic acid, forming numerous vegetable and

mineral
loids.
salts.
Chelidonin (chelidonia) and chelerythrin, two alka-
Chelidoxanthin.
Chelerythrin
is
identical with sanguinarin.
(Schiel).
Part used. The root dug in April or May.
Form
of preparation. Tincture by macerating one part of the root
two weeks, and filtering. Tincture has a beautiful

gold-yeUow appearance, and a nauseating, bitter, acrid taste.
in
five of alcohol
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CHELONE GLABRA.
TURTLE HEAD. BALMONY. SNAKE HEAD.
A very common, indigenous plant, three or four feet high, growing
in low, wet situations. The stems are quadrangular, herbaceous, with
opposite, long, lanceolate, very bitter leaves. The flowers, large, orna-
mental, and arranged

a short spike, are pure white, sometimes
tinged with red or purple, and so shaped as to resemble the head of a
snake or tortoise, with the mouth open and tongue extended.
Eorm
made by
the recent plant, then adding an equal part of alcohol.
macerating in Ave parts of dilute alcohol two weeks, and
Also by
filtering.
CHENOPODIUM ANTHELMINTICUM.
MEXICAN WORMSEED. WORMSEED. JERUSALEM OAK.
This is a strongly scented species of wormwood, growing in most
parts of this country, but chiefly in the southern states, where it is
often seen growing in the vicinity of rubbish, along fences, and in
neglected places. The leaves are yellowish-green, and dotted on the
under surface flowers are of the same Tcolor. he seeds are small,
not larger than the head of a pin, and possess the same strong, offensive odor as the rest of the plant. They have a bitter, pungent taste.
C. ambrosioides yields a similar oil, and has quite the same effect.
''
Jerusalem oak " is more often applied to C. botrys.
;
Active principles. Oleum, chenopodii, an essential
oil.
Form
fresh plant
when
in flower, then
made by expressing
the juice of the
By
maceration, one part seeds to four of dilute alcohol, two weeks.

Filter.
CHENOPODIUM OLIDUM.
CHENOPODIUM VULVARIA. ATRIPLEX OLIDA.
FETID GOOSEFOOT.
This plant is found growing in the north of Europe, and is usually
a low or procumbent plant, exhaling an extremely fetid odor, and possessing a salty, disagreeable taste. It contains a large amount of
trimethylamin. The leaves are rhomboidal, green above, nearly white
beneath, seemingly covered with a scaly powder. The flowers are
axillary, and arranged on a simple spike.
Part used. The entire plant.
Form
is
made by expressing
from the fresh plant, and adding an equal part
of alcohol.
the juice.
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CHIMAPHILA UMBELLATA.
piPsissiwA.
prince's pine.
This widely diffused evergreen is native in the northern latitudes of

Europe, Asia, and this country, extending in the latter to the Pacific
coast. It grows in shaded woods, and prefers a loose, sandy soil,
enriched by leaf mould. When bruised, it exhales a peculiar odor.
The leaves are coriaceous, shining, dark green, and possess a sweetish-bitter, astringent taste.
The
flowers are small
and purple.
Never
has been thoroughly analyzed.
Form
of
made
[by macerating one part of
the whole plant in two of dilute alcohol.
CHINA.
PERUVIAN BARK. CINCHONA OFFICINALIS.
CINCHONA BARK.
This celebrated tree
is
a native of South America, flourishing
chiefly in Peru, New Granada and Bolivia, upon the eastern slope of
the great mountain ranges. Tlie name Cinchona is derived from the
countess of Cinchona, who was the first European cured of intermittent fever by its use. It is also called Jesuit's bark, from the circumstance of that fraternity first introducing it into Europe where it was
sold for its weight in silver. There are three varieties of this bark,
respectively known as, 1. Pale bark; 2. Yellow bark; 3. Red bark.
These are valuable in the order enumerated. The finest specimen of
the first variety is known as loxa or crown bark. The pale barks con-
tain little quinine, but a large proportion of cinchonia ; the yellow or

calisaya barks are rich in quinia and poor in cinchonia ; while the red
or Colorado bark furnishes both in
The
among the
The bark is
more equable proportions.
trees are not in forests by themselves, but in groups
wooded
which they are situated.

designated cascarilleros, who are trained especially
Proceeding into the forests miles from any settlement,
these men fell the trees and then decorticate them. When fully dry
the bark is packed in bales or ceroons covered with rawhide and then
exported.
heavily
gathered by
to this work.
Active
sections in
men
principles.
(Chinin), quinadine,
Kinates
of cinchonine (cinchonia), quinine
and other alkaloids combined with kinic
acid.
Part used. The yellow or calisaya bark.

!Form of preparation. Tincture,
the dried bark in five of alcohol, two weeks,

color.
filter
pait of
reddish-brown
Trituration.
CHININUM ARSENITUM.
ARSENiTE OF CHININ (Arsen.
.
This
salt is
2C20H24N2 O2, AsH3 O4
of Quini:i).
+8H3 O
prepared by boiling together in distilled water one part
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of quinine and two parts of arsenious acid.

portion of this solution is added to a solution of quinia previously made in boiling water.
Upon the mixture of these solutions a white precipitate is thrown
dowui this is washed and dried in the usual way. The salt is in the
form of white silky needles, soluble in alcohol, but insoluble in water.
;
Form
third decimal.
May
be transferred to water at
Saturated alcoholic solution for tincture.
CHININUM HYJDKOCYANICUM.
CYANIDE OF CHiNiN
C3oPI:>4N3
(Cyan, of Quinia).
02 Cy.
Boil two parts sulphate of quinia with three parts of cyanide of

Filter, wash, precipitate, dissolve in alcohol.
Evaporate
crystallization
to
(V). [Ferrocyanide of Q. by substituting ferrocyanate
of potassium for cyanide of potassium].
potassium.
Form
of preparation.
Trituration.
CHININUM HYPOPHOSPHITUM.
HYPOPHOSPHiTE OF CHININ (Hypophos.
C20H34X2 02,HP2 O, H3 O
of Quinia).
Sulphate of quinia twenty-five ounces, hypophosphorous acid one

ounce, water one gallon. Heat in capsule to 200 and add hypophosphite of barium until reaction is complete.
Filter the insoluble
barium sulphate and wash. The filtrate contains the hypophosphite
of quinia.
Evaporate and
cool.
Crystals deposited.
Bibasic.
Solu-
ble in sixty parts cold water.
Form
of preparation.
Trituration.
Transferred to dilution at
third decimal.
CHININUM MUKIATICUM.
CHLORIDE OF CHiNiN
(Chloride of Quinia).-
C20H24N3 02,HCl-f2H2 O
Boiling hot solutions of chloride of barium and sulphate of quinia,
made
separately in distilled water, are mixed and filtered while hot to

separate the sulphate of barium that remains on the filter. On cooling, the solution of chloride of chinin crystallizes in white silky
needles, which are soluble in water. This preparation has several
advantages over the sulphate, among which is its greater stability
and solubility.
Forms of preparation. Trituration.
attenuation.
Transfers to water at any
Saturated solution in water for tincture.
CHININUM SULPHURICUM.
SULPHATE OF CHININ (Sulphate of Quinia).
Neutral 2C20H24N2 O2 SO3 H2 0+7H2 O. Acid C20H24N2 O30SO3 H2
O+7H2 O, made by addition of SO3 in prescribing the neutral.
This is generally understood when quinine is spoken of. It posQUININE.
HOMOEOPATHIC
PHARMACOPCEIA.
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sesses no therapeutic advantages over the other salts of quinia, yet it

It is in the form of white
is the preparation most frequently used.
prismatic crystals, interlaced or grouped in star-like tufts, and have

an exceedingly bitter taste. Is soluble in alcohol, but sparingly soluble in water. Effloresces slightly on exposure to the atmosphere.
When heated to a temperature of 212 F., and rubbed, it becomes
luminous, decomposes, and then gives off an aromatic odor.
Form
May
be transferred to dilutions
at third decimal.
CHINOIDINE.
QUINIDIN.
In the manufacture of sulphate of quinia, and after the crystallizais complete, there is left a fluid known as the mother liquor.
On
the evaporation of this a dark colored substance is obtained, composed for the most part of quinia and cinchonia. This of necessity
more certain preparation is
must be of uncertain strength.
obtained by precipitating this salt in the presence of an alkalme
carbonate.
It is uncrystallizable, yellowish-white or browaish in
color, and becomes a resinous looking mass on the application of
tion
heat.
Form
of preparation. Trituration. Transfer to dilutions after third
decimal.
CHIONANTHUS VIRGmiCA.
FRINGE TREE.
An
ornamental indigenous shrub or small tree, chiefly found in

mountainous districts from Pennsylvania to Georgia, and ranging in
height from eight to twenty-flve feet. The leaves are about a foot
long and half an inch broad. The flowers are disposed in dense snow
white clusters.
The fruit is an oval, purple berry, containing a
striated nut.
Active principle.
larger quantities
the
name
An
important extract
from saponaria
officinalis.
saponin,
obtained
in
Saponin also goes by
of senegin, polygallin, poly gallic acid.
Form
part of
the bark in five of dilute alcohol, two weeks, and filtering.
CHLORATUM.
HYDRATE OF CHLORAL. HYDRIDE OF TERCHLORACETYL.
CS HCl3 0-f2H3 O.
This substance derives
its
name from
the two substances composing
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Chlorine
aZcohol. Hydrate of chloral is made by mixing

anhydrous chloral with water. Crystals are soon formed, generally of
a tabular form, but sometimes in needles, composed of equal equivalents of chlorine and water, and are usually covered with a white
powder. These have a pungent odor and a pungent, acrid taste.
They are quite soluble in water, also in alcohol, and disengage heat
during the process. Not permanent in solution.
it,
thus
Form of preparation. Trituration in centesimal scale, made quickly.

Saturated solution in dilute alcohol for immediate use, to form dilutions.
CHLOROFORMUM.
CHLOROFORM. CHLORIDE OF BICHLOROMETHYL.
CHCI3 =CHCl2 CI.
This agent was discovered in 1831 by Mr. Samuel Guthrie, of
Sacketts Harbor, N. Y., and about the same time by Soubeiran and
Liebig. The commercial article is produced by distilling calcium
chloride with very dilute alcohol, separating the oily portion of the
distillate,
purifying
of calcium
and
it
by agitation with water, drying with chloride
re -distilling in a water bath.
It is a limpid, colorless,
exceedingly volatile liquid, having a peculiar odor and a hot sweetish
taste, burning with a greenish flame and boiling at 142 F. Nearly
insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol.
Form
of preparation. Dilutions in alcohol.
Water maybe used
after the third decimal.
CHLORUM.
(Chlorinum).
CHLORINE GAS.
CI.
yellowish-green, suffocating, gaseous body, possessing in an

extraordinary degree the property of bleaching any substance containing organic coloring matter. It is prepared by the action of
hydrochloric acid on black oxide of manganese. These are mixed
together in a retort, and on the application of gentle heat the gas is
extricated. Collect over warm water trough for the gas, and a cold
water trough for aqueous solution of it. Do not use the mercury
trough. One volume of water will dissolve two volumes of gas.
Form
of preparation.
not add any alcohol,
in'
Dilutions of
chlorine solution in water.
Do
the lower dilutions.
CHROMIUM TRIOXIDE.
CHROMIC ACID.
Cr03, H3 O or (Cr02 )" 20H
One measure
of a cold saturated solution of bichromate of potassa
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added slowly to one ana a half measures of sulphuric acid, will upon
cooling deposit a mass of beautiful crimson red crystals. The chromic
acid thus prepared has an acid, metallic taste, deliquesces on exposure,
and is very soluble in water to which it gives a dark yellow color. It
is bibasic, immediately reduced by organic matter.
Great caution is
to be observed in its local use, as it may cause a deep slough. It is a
solvent of organic matter to such an extent that the bodies of mice
and birds immersed in it are entirely dissolved.
Form
of preparation.
Aqueous
saturated solution in either.
and
preferable.
tincture
Aqueous
and
alcoholic tincture, by
stronger,
is
more permanent
Alcoholic tincture decomposed by sunlight.
CHROMIUM SESQUIOXIDUM.
CHROMIC OXIDE.
Crs 03.
heating mercurous chromate to a red heat it becomes converted
into green sesquioxide of chromium. It may also be prepared by
exposing bichromate of potassium to a red heat in an earthen crucible.
It is used in the arts for giving a green color to glass, for enamel
painting, and in the manufacture of razor strops. Insoluble.
By
Form
May
after third decimal.
CICHORUM.
CHICKORY,
SUCCORY.
A plant about two feet high, bearing large, compound, blue flowers.
It grows both in Europe and this country, along fences in well settled
localities.
The leaves are eaten as a salad in Europe, and the root,
when
roasted, is used as a substitute for coffee.
Besides this it is frequently used for the adulteration of genuine coffee. In France the
consumption of the roots for the inferior beverage it affords amounts
to millions of pounds annually.
Form of preparation. Trituration of

made by macerating one part of the fresh
hol,
two weeks, and
the dried root.

root in
two of
Tincture,
dilute alco-
filtering.
CICUTA MACULATA.
AMERICAN WATER HEMLOCK.
Botanically, this plant resembles the cicuta virosa or water hemlock ot Europe. Like its relative, it is common in wet meadows, and
about the margin of ponds, streams, etc. It grows about three feet
high, with a purple-streaked stem, and bears a white flower. The root
is thick and fleshy, resembling a parsnip, and consists of several long
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tubes about a finger's length. These are very poisonous and have
caused death when eaten in mistake by children.
Active principles.
Fixed and volatile oils, vegetable acids, conia(V)
Cicutin.
Form
made by expressing
the juice from
Tincture by macerat-
ing one part in five of dilute alcohol, two weeks, and filtering.
CICUTA VIEOSA.
WATER HEMLOCK.
COWBANE. LONG-LEAVED WATER HEMLOCK.
This is a perennial plant, inhabiting low, wet localities, such as the

border of ditches, wet meadows, swamps, the edges of ponds, lakes^
etc.
It is of most frequent occurrence in some parts of England,
central Europe and western Asia. Goats, horses and sheep are not
affected by eating it, but all other animals perish. The stem is about
three or four feet high, hollowed and branched the riowers are small
;
The
and white.
root
is
thick, white, fleshy, cellular, full of hairs,
and
contains a yellow milky juice, having a strong odor and a disagreeable taste.
It is to be distinguished from another hemlock, the
conium maculatum.
Active principles. Same as in cicuta maculata.
Part used. The
Form
root.
Nauseous
taste
and deep red
same
as with
cicuta maculata.
color.
CIMICIFUGA EACEMOSA.
RATTLEWEED. ACTEA RACEMOSA. BLACK SNAKEROOT.
MACROTY'S RACEMOSA.
COHOSH.
indigenous plant, ranging from four to eight

in upland, rocky woods from Maine to Florida.
The leaves are large. The white flowers are arranged on long slender
racemes and exhale a very ofCensive odor. The stamens of each
flower number about a hundred, and give to the raceme the appearance of a plume, varying in length from six to twelve inches. The
fruit is oval and contains numerous flat seeds, loosely arranged in two
rows. Late in the autumn or during the winter, any motion given to
the plant causes a rattling of these seeds in their dry capsule, which
may easily be mistaken for the alarm of rattlesnakes. The root i&
thick, irregular, contorted, rough, jagged, and shows the scars made by
the stems of former years.
Active principles. Eesins, gallic and tannic acids, wax, mineral
This
is
tall, leafy,
feet in height,
growing
and earthy salts, silica, volatile

oil,
cimicifugin (macrotiu).
Form
of preparation.
m two of
the root
Tincture, made
alcohol,
two weeks.
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by macerating one part of
Filter.
(INA.
MUGWORT OF JUDEA. ARTEMESIA CONTRA.
Asia minor, Africa, Persia and the levant furnish this species of
wormseed. The flower heads are of a pale greenish brown, less than
one-sixth of an inch in length and about half that diameter, fusiform
and closely resembling seeds.
Active principles. Santonine.
An
extractive forming salts with
bases.
Part used. The flower heads.
Form
of
Tincture,
alcohol,
preparation
Trituration
two weeks, and
of
santonine (santoninum).
part of the flower heads in Ave of
filtering.
CINNABARIS.
CINNABAR.
SULPHIDE OF MERCURY.
HgS.
VERMILLION.
This mineral abounds in Spain, Mexico, Peru, China and Hungary.

one from which quicksilver is extracted. This is manufactured to a great extent both in Europe and this country by combining
mercury and sulphur, and heating this unti) sublimation takes place.
There are two forms met with, viz., crystalline and powder masses.
It has a brilliant red color, and is used as a pigment under the name
It is the
of Vermillion.
Form
Insoluble.
May be
transferred to dilution
CINNAMOMUM ZE YL ANICUM.
LAURUS CINNAMOMUM.
The cinnamon
CINNAMON.
grows in the islands of Ceylon, Sumatra and

That coming from China is called
twenty or thirty feet high, with a trunk twelve or eightree
Java, and the Malabar coast.

cassia.
It
is
inches in diameter.
The leaves exhale a spicy odor when
rubbed ; the flowers are small, white and fragrant, and the fruit or
berry is oval, bluish-brown when ripe, dotted with white spots, and
have a taste like juniper berries. The substance called cinnamon
suet is made from these by bruising, boiling and collecting the fatty
matter rising to the surface. At the time of year when the sap is
abundant the bark is easily peeled from the tree. The outer portion
is rejected, and only the inner retained, dried, rolling itself into quills
about the size of the little finger, as the drying progresses. The smaller
rolls are then telescoped inô the larger ones, so that the cylinder is
teen
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almost solid. This bark is of a rusty, yellow color, but little thicker
than paper, has a spicy odor, and a warm, sweetish taste.
Active principles. Oil (essential) of cinnamon.

bassorin, extractive.
Cinnamonic acid,
Oil of cassia (Asiatic).
Form
of preparation.
Tincture,
the dried bark in five of alcohol, two weeks. Filter.
CISTUS
part of
Trituration.
CA:NÂD]SrSIS.
FROST WORT.
ROCK ROSE.
shrubby plant rising about a foot and a half high, bearing large
bright yellow flowers, opening in the sunshine, and casting their
petals by the next day. The fruit is a smooth, angular, shining cap
sule, containing a number of seeds. It thrives best in a mica-slate
soil, seeming to require a talc or magnesian earth for its peculiar
wants. Cultivated from the seed in Great Britian, it was found to
have lost its medicinal properties, and on this account the attempt to
propagate it was abandoned. On frosty mornings in the months of
November and December, numerous broad, thin and curved ice crystals will be found protruding from the roots of this plant, lasting until
melted by the sun, and being reproduced the following night.
The whole plant.

preparation. Tincture, of
Part used.
Form
of
a greenish-brown color,
by macerating one part of the whole plant

weeks.
in
two
made
of alcohol,
two
Filter.
CITRIC ACID.
ACIDUM CITRICUM. THE ACID OF LEMONS,
2C6 H8 O7, H2 O.
LIMES, ETC.
This acid exists in many fruits, such as lemons, limes, cranberries,

tamarinds, red alderberries, strawberries, raspberries, gooseberries, as
well as a number of others, but is principally obtained from the first
two. The juice is allowed to ferment for a time, when the organic
impurities settle to the bottom of the vessel. It is then saturated
with chalk, or whiting in fine powder, forming citrate of calcium, which
precipitates. This is washed with water and decomposed by sulphuric acid, sulphate of calcium is thrown down, the acid remaining
in solution. It is then concentrated by heat and removed to cool
which it crystallizes. To purify the acid, it is redissolved,

digested with animal charcoal, filtered while hot, and allowed to crys-
vessels in
tallize.
Form of preparation. Trituration of the crystals. The

may be made with a saturated solution in alcohol.
dilutions
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CITEUS LIMONUM.
THE LEMON.
The lemon tree is cultivated in all tropical and subtropical latitudes,
attaining a height of about fifteen feet, bearing a rich, dark green
foliage. The flower is odoriferous, large and white, with a purplish
tinge on the outer surface. The fruit is ovoid, about four inches long,
two and a half in thickness, and covered with a thick yellow rind or
skin. The inner portion is composed of a fibrous trabeculse containing a highly acid juice (citric acid). It also contains limonin, citrene,
lemons,
citriline, oil of
Part used. The
Form
etc.
expressed juice.
made by expressing
the juice from
the fruit, then adding an equal quantity of alcohol.
CITRUS VULGARIS.
BITTER OR SEVILLE ORANGE.
This orange
native to the Mediterranean coast, and contains a
is
bitter principle in the skin or rind, not resident in the other varieties.
It yields an oil by distillation that is employed by the confectioner for
flavoring,
and by the perfumer in the manufacture of colognes,
grant waters,
fra-
etc.
Part used. The fresh peel.
Form

two weeks, and
grated peel with two of alcohol, for
of the
filtering.
CLEMATIS ERECTA.
FLAMMULA
UPRIGHT VIRGIN'S BOWER.

France, Spain, Switzerland and Germany
JO VIS.
The south of
home of this plant,
are the
a variety is also cultivated in the garden. It is a
climbing perennial, three or four feet high, bearing white, sweet
scented flowers, and growing on woody hills and along hedges.
Active principles. Clematidin and
Part used.
Form
The leaves and
oil of clematitis.
stems.
made by
the fresh leaves and stems, then adding an equal part of alcohol.
COBALTUM.
COBALT.
Co.
A brittle, white metal resembling nickel, with which it is often assoname from
Cobald, one of the

mines
of
Europe. The oxide
demons supposed to reside in the deep
of this metal is employed to communicate a beautiful blue color to
ciated in
glass.
nature.
Insoluble.
It derives its
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Form
May be
of preparation.- - Trituration.
transferred to dilutions
at sixth decimal.
COCA.
ERYTHROXYLON COCA.
COCOA.
Must not be confounded with theobroma, or cocus nucifera, the

cocoanut tree.
shrub growing wild in South America, but extensively cultivated in Bolivia for the sake of its leaves, which were in
use in Peru at the time of the Spanish conquest. These are about
the size and shape of tea leaves, about two inches long, and little more
than an inch in width. They have a stimulating property said to be
similar to that produced by tea or coffee, imparting greater vigor to
the muscular and nervous systems, and the Indians of the country
where it grows are reported to perform long and exhausting journeysunder its influence. It has been used at La Pas as a substitute for
quinine.
Active principles. Cocoine, an alkaloid
cocotannic acid.
Part used .The leaves.
Form
part in
five of dilute alcohol.
COCCIONELLA SEPTEMPUNCTATA.
LADYBIRD.
An
insect living on wheat, various plants, hedges, etc.
The body
is
black, about the size of a pea, etc., and furnished with red wing covers
marked with black points. The under side of the body is flat, the
upper convex, the wing covers are separated by a sinus throughout

The head is small and situated in a depression
and there are two twelve jointed antennae. The insect cont tins a
volatile acid juice, having an odor like opium.
their entire length.
Form
entire living insect in five of alcohol,
coccuLus
two weeks, and
part of the
filtering.
i:n^dicus.
INDIAN COCKLE.
This is a shrub having a corky bark, and found growing on the Malabar coast, and some parts of India. The fruit is roundish, kidneyshaped, about the size of a pea, and encloses a whitish, very bitter
kernel, having strong poisonous qualities. In India a decoction is
thrown into streams for the purpose of stupefying fish, so as to catch
them easily. In this country it is employed in the adulteration of
beer.
Active principles,
Picrotoxin, menispermin, cocculin.
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Part used. The seed.
Form
of preparation.
the broken seeds in
Tincture,
five parts of alcohol,
two weeks
part of
brownish, straw-
yellow color, and on being exposed to a temperature below 32F.

small groups of papillae of margaric acid are deposited upon the sides
of the vessel.
These may be removed from the tincture without
injury.
COCCUS CACTI.
COCHINEAL.
that grows, feeds, and
flourishes upon several of

been introduced in the island
of Teneriffe. The body of the insect is depressed, downy, and transversely wrinkled, with a purple under surface the legs are short and
black, and the insect is furnished with long, tapering antennae. The
female insects only are gathered, and are scrapped off the stalks, with
a quill or blunt knife, a certain proportion being left to continue the
species. They are killed by enclosing them in a bag and dipping
They impart a
it in boiling water, and afterward drying in the sun.
magnificent red color to water or alcohol, and when precipitated from
the solution by oxide of tin, form the brilliant scarlet coloring matter,
This
the
an insect
is
West
Indies.
Its culture has also
carmine.
Active principles. Tyrosin
fatty acid
Cochinilin
carminic acid
Forms
of
preparation. Tincture made by macerating for two
weeks, one part of the dried insect in eight of dilute alcohol.
Filter.
Trituration alone contains the tyrosin to any extent.
COCHLEARIA ARMORACIA.
HORSERADISH.
This plant has a perennial root from which long corrugated, dark
green leaves spring each year the flowers are white, thick, clustered.
The root is cylindrical near the top, but on descending expands into
several stems. It is whitish, fleshy, and possesses a hot. biting taste,
with a pungent odor. These latter depend on the presence of a volaIt is the
tile oil, materially lost by drying, and wholly so by boiling.
well known table condiment.
;
mustard
oil,
nearly or quite identical with
powerful surface stimulant, penetrating, pungent
oil
of
requires
dilution for use.
Form
the fresh root, in two of dilute alcohol one week.
with water
is
Filter.
required to secure the full strength with the
part of
Distillation
oil.
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CODEIN.
AN ALKALOID OF OPIUM.
C18H21XO3, H2 O.
This alkaloid is obtained from the muriate of morphia with which it
combined, by treating the mixed muriate of morphia and codeia
with ammonia, which precipitates the morphia. The codein, remaining in solution, is procured by evaporation and crystallization. These
is
and dissolve in alcohol and ether.

parts of water dissolve one part of codein.
crystals are colorless, eight sided,
One hundred
Form
COFFEA CRUDA.
COFFEE.
The coffee tree ranges from tifteen to thirty feet in height. The
branches are white, the lower ones being long and spreading, while
the upper are shorter and declining, thus presenting a pyramid-like
shape. The leaves are four or five inches long, smooth, dark green
and cover the tree throughout the year. The Ho Wei's are white, and
exhale a pleasant odor. The fruit, about the size of a cherry, contains
a soft pulp enclosing two pale green seeds that are surrounded by a
thin membrane. These seeds are the well known coffee berries. The
tree is native in Arabia, Abyssinia, and some parts of Africa, but has
been introduced into, and successfully cultivated in Mocha, Java.
Ceylon, Hindostan, Brazil, and the West Indies, The leaves possess
the same properties as the seeds, and in the countries where the tree
^rows, are used in infusion as a beverage.
Active principles.
salts of caffein.
and
Viridic
acid, coffeic acid, caffein
Chlorogenic acid.
iffein
is
known
and various
as guarani
thein.
Part used,
Form
The berries
Unroasted).
(2kIocha.
made by pounding one
crude coffee beans, and macerating tor eight days
part of
in six parts of alco-
is then mixed with forty parts of distilled water,

and then boiled until the filtrate added to the alcoholic tincture
amounts to ten parts by weight. Trituration of the crude beans.
hol; the residue
COFFEA TOST A.
THE ROASTED COFFEE BERRY.
CAFFEIXUM.
CAFFEIN.
(Coffeinum.)
THE ALKALOID OF COFFEA ARABICA.

C8 II10X4 O2.
To
obtain this alkaloid, ground coffee
is
heated with benzine, by
HOM(EOPATHIC
PHARMACOPCEIA.
which the active principle contained
The
109
in the coffee is dissolved out.
then distilled to dryness, and the residue boiled in

water. The aqueous solution is then filtered and evaporated to concentration. On cooling, the coffein or caffein is deposited in white
silky needles, bitter to the taste, volatile and soluble in from thirtysolution
is
five to fifty parts of alcohol.
Form
for tincture.
COLCHICUM AUTUMN ALE.

MEADOW SAFFRON.
A perennial
bulbous plant, the leaves of which make their appearance in the spring of the year, in common with other plants, bat the
flower does not grow until autumn. It is seen in most all parts of
Europe, England and Ireland, where it inhabits moist meadows and
pastures. The leaves are about five inches long, spear shaped and
The flowers are tubular, rose or lilac colored, evanescent. The

seeds are nearly round, reddish-brown, and possess many of the properties of the root. The root is a bulb about the size of a pigeon's
egg, covered with a brown, membranous coat, and contains when
recent, a milky, bitter juice. During the latter part of the summer, a
new bulb is given off from the side of the old one this latter grows
the flower of the same year.
erect.

Active principles. Colchicine and colchiceine.
Form
"Hircine."
made by expressing
the fresh root, then adding an equal part of alcohol.

the powdered seeds.
weeks, and
Also by maceration in
the juice from
Trituration of
five part of alcohol
two
filtering.
COLLINSONIA CANADENSIS.
STONE ROOT.
HORSE-BALM. HEAL-ALL.
An indigenous plant found in moist woods and fields from New
England westward to Michigan, and southward. It is about three or
four feet high and bears a yellow flower, having the odor of lemons.
The root is knotty, depressed, extremely hard, and gives off many
slender fibres.
Active principles.
A crude extract collinsonin.
Not
analyzed.
Form
the root in two parts of alcohol,
two weeks, and
part of
filtering.
COLOCYNTHIS VULGARIS.
BITTER CUCUMBER.
trailing plant,
CUCUMIS COLOCYNTHIS. BITTER APPLE.
having for
its
home
the Islands of the Archi-
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pelago, some parts of Asia, the Cape of Good Hope, Turkey, Nubia,
Japan and lower India. The hairy stem, resembling that of the watermelon or cucumber, runs along the ground or climbs anything in its
path, attaching itself by numerous tendrils. The flowers are solitary,
yellow, and marked with greenish veins. The fruit or gourd is globular, yellow, smooth, about the size of a small orange, with a hard
rind surrounding a spongy, whitish pulp, containing within its meshes
numerous white ovate seeds. When imported into this country they
have been stripped of the hard envelope, and consist only of the dried
pulp. This is exceedingly bitter.
Active principles. Colocynthin, colocynthitin, and colocynthinin.

Part used. The pulp of the
Form
fruit.
the dried pulp in
part of
two weeks, and then express-
ing the moist pulp, adding alcoholic extract
filter.
Dark straw
color, very bitter taste.
COLOC YN THINUM.
COLOCYNTHIN.
C50H84O23.
Colocynth in powder is exhausted in the percolator with alcohol, or

a strong macerated tincture obtained. This is evaporated slowly on a
.sand bath, or under the air pump. Add water to residue. Precipitate
solution with acetate and subacetate of lead, and filter. To filtrate,
add sulphurated hydrogen. Filter. Add tannic acid. Filter again.
Dissolve residue in alcohol. Add subacetate of lead. Remove the
excess of lead; digest filtrate with carbo an., filter and evaporate.
Residue is colocynthin pure. Yellow color bitter taste.
;
Form
of preparation. Saturated solution in dilute alcohol for tinc-
Trituration.
ture.
COMOCLADIA DENTATA.
GUACO.
Very common in the Island of Cuba, growing near the coast or

upon the savannahs, luxuriating mostly on barren or stony soil. This
having beautiful, dark green leaves, with
a brownish border. The flowers are small, bluish- brown, and clustered like grapes. The trunk and branches contain a milky fluid that
turns black on exposure to sunlight, discoloring the skin, linen, etc.
It has a reputation for curing the bite of poisonous snakes, and a
superstition is entertained that death results from sleeping in its
tree
is
six or eight feet high,
shade.
Active principle. Guacin.

Part used. The leaves and bark.
Form
the leaves and twigs in^two of
Ill

two weeks, and
alcoliol,
part of
filtering.
CO^SÎNUM.
CONIA.
CONIIN.
C8
CINICIN.
Hi5isr.
Thisîs the alkaloid contained in the
One method
called conia.
CICUTIN.
conium maculatum, and
of obtaining this
is
is
also
by distilling fresh
hemlock bark with caustic potassa and water, neutralizing the distiland alcohol
added to precipitate sulphate of ammonium, separating this by filtration. A solution of caustic potassa is then added to the solution,
after which it is re-distilled. Another method consists in mixing
together an alcoholic extract of the fruit and a solution of caustic
late with sulphuric acid, evaporating to concentration,
potassa, submitting the whole to distillation.

volatile, oily, exceedingly
Coniin is a yellowish,
poisonous liquid, lighter than water, having
a peculiar odor, and freely soluble in alcohol and ether, and also in
first, in four parts of alcohol.
(Elliott).
water after dissolving,
Form
of preparation.
Saturated
solution in alcohol for tincture.
Dilutions with either water or alcohol.
CONIUM MACULATUM.
HEMLOCK.
very poisonous plant growing on the margin of streams, the borders of fields and roadsides, usually about four feet high. It has a
round hollow stem, spotted with reddish or purple patches, with large
spreadmg leaves, egg-shaped leaflets, and bears small, white, clustering
The
round or oval, composed of two plano-convex,

under surface five crenated
ribs. The whole plant exhales an odor compared to that of mice, or
the urine of cats. It is a native of Europe. The hemlock of Greece,
Italy, and Spain is said to be more energetic in its eifects than that
growing in more northern latitudes.
flowers.
fruit is
easily separable seeds, having on their
Active principles.
Coniin, coniic acid.
Part used. The entire herb when in blossom.
Form
made by expressing
the juice from
the fresh plant just coming into flower, then adding an equal part of
alcohol.
Maceration in
five parts of dilute alcohol,
Color light, brownish-green
two weeks.
Filter.
very offensive, narcotic odor.
CONVOLVULUS AKVENSIS.
BINDWEED. BIRDWEED.
A twining
plant growing in fields and pastures, from Maine to the
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Carolinas, also in
The stem is several feet

and milky, with pointed
Germany and France.
long, either climbing or prostrate, hairy

digitate leaves,
from one
It bears a small, white
to ten inches long.
bell-shaped flower, slightly tinged with red.
Part used. The root, when the plant
Form
is
in flower.
part of
the fresh root with two of alcohol.
CONVOLVULUS DUARTLNfUS.
A BRAZILIAN MORNING GLORY.
This is a twining plant, native to Brazil, luxuriating in the forests of
that country, and climbing to the loftiest tree tops.
The flowers.
preparation. Tincture, made
Part used.
Form
of
the flowers in
two of
alcohol, one week,

and filtering.
COPAIBA OFFICINALIS.
BALSAM OF COPAIVA.
The
from which
grows in Veneand Martinique, and several Brazilian

provinces. It is tall and elegant, bears a thick crown of foliage, with
leaves two or three inches long, and whitish flowers in terminal
branched spikes. The fruit is an oval pod containg a single seed. By
making deep incisions in the tree, a thin, colorless fluid exudes,
becoming thicker and yellowish after a time. As offered for sale in
tree
this oleo-balsam is obtained
zuela, the Islands of Trinidad
this country, it is a pale yellow liquid of the consistence of olive oil,
having an aromatic resinous odor and a hot, bitter, nauseous taste.

The pure balsam is soluble in alcohol and ether. It is sometimes
adulterated with turpentine and the flxed oils.
Form
of preparation.
Dilutions
in alcohol.
CORALLIUM RUBRUM.
RED CORAL.
the calcareous structure built by the coral zoophyte. It presents a great variety of forms, the most frequent, however, resembles a bush or tree stripped of its foliage. The superficial portion is
entirely cellular and serves for the habitation of gelatinous polyps, all
of whom are united by a common plasma. Carbonate of lime and
oxide of iron enter largely into its composition.
This
is
Part used.
Form
The axis of the branches.

Trituration of
of preparation.
the red coral.
the axis of the branches of
Transfer to dilutions after the
fifth
decimal.
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CORIAEIA RUSCIFOLIA.
FOOT BERRY.
This
much
is
the Tupa-Kihi of
and
so that children
New
cattle
Zealand, a very poisonous plant, so

in consequence of eating it.
have died
Active principles. Coriamyrtin.
Volatile
oil.
Part used. The berries.
Form
berries in five of alcohol, one
week.
part of the
Filter.
CORNUS CIRCINATA.
ROUND-LEAVED DOGWOOD. GREEN
On
hillsides
and along the banks of
this plant is chiefly found.
OSIER.
rivers or other water courses
It rises to a height of six, eight, or ten
feet, with green, spotted, or wârty branches, bearing large, roundish,

pointed leaves, wâved on the edges, woolly and white on the under
surface. The flowers are white and small, and the round fruit, hollowed at the base, is light blue in color. The bark, when fresh, is
bright green, but when stripped and dried appears in whitish or ashcolored quills.
Active principles. Comin.
Vegetable acids. Oil of comus. Salts
and potassa.
of iron
Form
of preparation.
Tincture,
part of
the recent bark in two of dilute alcohol, two weeks, and filtering.
CORNUS FLORIDA.
DOGWOOD.
This tree
is
quite
ticularly in the
common
middle
in all the forests of this country, par-
states,
and has an average height of
fifteen
although it may attain a height of thirty feet. The leaves are

about three inches long, and towards the close of summer become
marked with black spots and turn red on the approach of cold
weather. In the spring of the year this bears large festoons of white
flowers, and makes a very showy appearance. The fruit consists of
feet,
oval,
clustering scarlet berries, remaining until the first frosts. The dried
bark is in irregular, reddish-gray, very brittle quills, with little smell
but a
bitter,
aromatic taste.
xictive principles.
Same
as cornus circ.
Part used. The bark of the twigs and root.
Form
part of
the bark of the twigs and root in ten of dilute alcohol, two weeks,
and
filtering.
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CORYDALIS FORMOSA.
TURKEY PEA. STAGGER WEED. TURKEY CORN. CHOICE DYELITRA.
Growing mainly in the middle and western states of this country,
met with in hilly, mountainous or wooded situations,
especially where the soil is rich. The root or bulb is dark yellow in
color when fresh, becoming paler on drying. There is little or no
odor, and the bitter taste changes to a disagreeable after-taste. The
this plant is
flowers are arranged in bunches, each consisting of eight or ten reddish-purple, nodding individuals.
Active principles. Corvdalin.
Fumaric
acid.
Resin.
Oils.
Bas-
sorin.
Part used. The tuber.
Form

two weeks, and filtering.
the tuber with two of alcohol,
part of
COTYLEDON UMBILICUS.
WALL PENNYWORT. NAVEL WORT.
This is a small plant about six inches high, and a native of England,
where it grows upon old walls, rocks and sandy banks. Its flower
stem bears a number of pale yellow, beet-shaped, pendulous flowers.
It is not found in this country.
Active principles.
Large
number
of extractives, inorganic salts
and trimethylamin.
Part used.
Form
The entire plant.

Tincture, made
of preparation.
the entire plant in two of alcohol, two weeks.
Filter.
CROCUS SATIVUS.
SAFFRON.
The plant is a native of Asia minor, but is extensively cultivated for

export in Sicily, Spain, Italy, France, England, Egypt, Persia and
Cashmere. Attempts have been made to grow it largely in Peru. In
this country it is one of the tenants of the flower garden. It is a
bulbous plant, with a long, white, slender tube, upon which a beautiful lilac or bluish-purple flower grows. The stigmas of these latter
are thread-like, and an inch or more in length, broadened at the summit, and have an orange or orange-red color.
Active principles. Safranin, polycroite, crocic acid.
Part used. The dried stigmas.
Form
of preparation. Trituration of the dried stigmas.

two weeks, and
filtering.
Tincture
part of the dried stigmas in five of alcohol,
Deep golden yellow
color.
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PHARMACOPCEIA.
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CKOTALIS HOKKIDUS.
THE RATTLESNAKE.
some cases, and immersed in
Another method is to enrage the snake, and then induce it
to bite repeatedly into an absorptive substance, which is subsequently
macerated in alcohol. Neither preparation can be relied upon as
answering to the provings obtained from bitten persons (a) from the
changes taking place by stomach digestion, and (6) from chemical
changes when treated with alcohol, meats, or any hydrocarbons. Prov-
Fangs
of the reptile are extracted in
alcohol.
ings of the preparations are reliable.
Part used.
Form
Pure virus from
the sac at the root of the tooth fang.
of preparation. Trituration of the pure, fresh virus in sugar
of milk, or its solution in water are probably
most
reliable.
CROTALIS CASCARILLA.
A BRAZILIAN RATTLESNAKE.
" This terrible serpent is found in Brazil where it attains a length of
four or five feet. The head is oval and triangular and the upper surface of the body covered with scales, the dorsal scales being keeled
and lanceolate the scales of the tail are quadrangular and smaller.
The belly is provided with one hundred and seventy large, transverse
plates, twenty-five plates belonging to the tail. The extremity of the
tail is furnished with seven or eight capsules of the consistence of
parchment, which when agitated, produce a shrill sound. In color it
is a yellowish-brown, much lighter under the belly, with twenty-four
rhomboidal lines on each side of the back." The poison acts with
frightful intensity, when injected into the circulation.
;
Part used. The virus.
Form
of preparation. Trituration of the virus with sugar of
milk
in the proportion of one to ninety-nine, or solution in water.
CROTONIN.
CROTONIC ACID.
C4H6
This substance, derived from croton tiglium, unites with bases to
form numerous
salts.
Form of preparation. Saturated
CROTON TIGLIUM.
CROTON.
TIGLIUM OFFICINALE
This is a small tree or bush growing in India, the Molucca Isles,

Ceylon and Malabar. The bark is grayish-green and smooth, and the
leaves are dark green, pointed and serrated. The straw colored
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flowers are disposed in spikes. The fruit is a smooth capsule, about

the size of a filbert, containing three seeds or almonds. These seeds
are burning and acrid to the taste, and yield an oil having a pale yellow or reddish-brown color. This has a hot, acrid taste, lasting for
many hours, and causing great local irritation. The dark, English,
expressed oil is soluble in alcohol, but the pale oil is insoluble and
forms a white, opaque cloud, that settles to the bottom of the vial.
Active principles. Cro tonic acid (Crotonin.) and crotonates.

Cascarillin(?). Croton
tonol.
Part used.
Form
two of
The seeds or oil
Angelic acid
Tiglinic acid.
(V)
already extracted.
alcohol,
directly
oil.
Cro-
made by macerating one part in

filtering. Dilutions may be made
two weeks, and then
from the
oil,
(the first decimal being filtered
from the plant tincture.
if
necessary) or
Trituration of the dried seeds.
CUBEBA OFFICINALIS.
CTJBEBS.
A climbing, perennial plant, growing in Java, Penang, Ceylon, New

Guiana and Peru, and some parts of the East Indies. The fruit is a
clustering berry resembling pepper grains, having an agreeable, arotaste. As imported, they are round, blackish, about the size of
a pea, with a short stalk attached, from which a series of raised fibres
pass on to, and around the berry. The shell is hard, woody, enclosing
a single seed with a blackish coat, white internally, and quite oily.
To the taste it is warm, bitter and aromatic, followed by a sense of
coolness, like that produced by peppermint. With age cubebs become
inert, in consequence of the escape of the volatile oil upon which its
qualities depend.
matic
Active principles. Cubebin, resin, extractive, cubebene, C. camphor.
Form
the ripe berries in five of alcohol, two weeks.
Filter
debris, adding the extract to the alcoholic filtrate
part of
and express the
color light brown.
CUNDURANGO.
CONDOR PLANT.
A plant, or plants,
from
New Grenada.
It is
a vine growing ten to
thirty feet in length.
Active principle. Oleo-resin.

Part used. The baik of the stems
Form
(vine).
of preparation.
Trituration
Tincture by maceration in
weeks and
filtering.
(vine).
of the dried bark of the stem,
five
parts of dilute alcohol, two
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CUPRUM.
CUPRUM METALLICUM.
COPPER.
OU.
This metal exists both as metal and the ore, the latter being the
It is mined in a number of localities in this country,
but is especially abundant in the Lake Superior region. The finest
copper in the world is found in the isle of Cypress. In Europe, the
mines of Cornwall, Fahium, and the Pyrenees are the most important.
Copper is a brilliant, reddish metal, capable of being hammered and
drawn out to almost any degree without losing its tenacity, a good
conductor of heat and electricity, and in connection with zinc, a gene-
most common.
rator of electricity.
Form
of preparation. Trituration of the precipitated metal.
(See
Introduction.)
CUPRUM ACETICUM
''normal" acetate, and not verdigris, acetate of COPPER.
(C2
SALT OF VENUS.
H3 O3 )2 Cu"+Aq.
salt is prepared by dissolving virdigris in hot acetic acid, and

the filtered solution has cooled, it is found to have crystallized
in dark green, soluble crystals. Efflorescent, rich green color, dissolves in water without residue.
This
when
Form
alcohol.
of preparation.For tincture, a saturated solution in dilute

Triturations.
CUPRUM AMMONIO-SULPHURICUM.
AMMONIO-SULPHATE OF COPPER.
2{NH3 ), Cu"0, SO3.
A dark blue, crystalline, soluble salt, prepared

in a mortar, sulphate of copper
and carbonate
by rubbing together
ammonium. Reac-
of
which the water of crystallization is extricated

from the copper, and carbonic acid gas given off from the ammonia,
occasioning an effervescence. At the same time the color of the mass
changes from the light blue of the copper salt, to a deep azure, and
has an ammoniacal odor, with a metallic taste. It is then dried and
put in dark bottles.
tion takes place by
Form
Alcohol
of preparation. Tincture, by saturated solution in water.
may be
used after the sixth decimal.
Trituration, kept in
dark air-tight bottles, should be prepared freshly unless closely kept.
CUPRUM ARSENITUM.
ARSENITE of COPPER.
CuH, ASO2.
SCHEELE'S green.
bright, yellowish-green, insoluble powder, prepared by
mixing a
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solution of sulphate of copper with the arsenite of soda, potash or

ammonia. Collect precipitate, washy and dry.
Form
of preparation.
Trituration.
May
after fifth decimal.
CUPEUM CARBONICUM.
CARBONATE OF COPPER.
2CuO, CO2, H2 O.
This occurs in nature as malachite, azurite, and verditer, but may
be obtained artificially by adding carbonate of sodium in excess to a
solution of sulphate of copper. The precipitate is floccular and pale
blue, but on applying gentle heat, becomes greenish. Collect and
wash on
Form
filter.
May be
after sixth decimal.
CUPRUM MURIATICUM.
BRUNSWICK GREEN. CHLORIDE OF COPPER.
CuCl2.
A copper
salt
prepared by dissolving suboxide of copper in hydro-
by heat. The crystals that

form are green and very soluble in water, and somewhat less so in
chloric acid, concentrating the solution
The hydrated oxychloride occurs native
alcohol.
in the mineral ata-
camite.

in water alcohol may be used in any
Tincture, a saturated solution

dilution.
CUPRUM XITRICUM.
NITRATE OF COPPER.
CU"(N03 )2 2H3 O
When metallic copper is dissolved in nitric acid, it assumes the form

by evaporation, of blue, deliquescent, highly corrosive crystals, which
The basic salt is green and
is the soluble normal or neutral salt.
insoluble.
Form
of preparation. Tincture, a saturated solution in alcohol.
Dilutions
may
be
made with water
or alcohol.
CUPRUM SULPHURICUM.
BLUE VITRIOL. SULPHATE OF COPPER.
By
dissolving
CuS04 5H2 O.
cupric oxide or monoxide
formed. It
imparted.
is
of copper in sulphuric acid,
known as blue vitriol

very soluble in water, to which a deep blue color
and evaporating
to crystallization, the salt
is
is
Form of preparation. Tincture,

may be used for dilution.
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saturated solution in water. Alco-
hol
CURARE.
WOORARI.
WOURARI.
The South American Indians, particularly those of British Guiana,

prepare a substance to which the above names are given, using it to
dip their aiTow heads into. When these are shot into the flesh of men
or animals, death is sure to result from the rapid effects of the poison.
There is much speculation as to its composition, but it is generally
supposed to be made from various species of strychnos, with which is
mingled serpent poison, toad venom, etc., resins or gums being added
to give consistence to the whole.
Form
of preparation. Trituration of the dried curare.
CYCLAMEN EUROPIUM.
SOW-BREAD.
This tuberous plant is indigenous in the south of Europe and in
Western Asia. It is naturalized in England and America, where it is
cultivated in the flower garden. The root is tuberous, roundish,
brown, almost black, externally, white internally, and when fresh has
a bitter, burning taste.
The flowers are purple, with drooping,
reflected petals. The fruit is a berry enclosed in a capsule. When
the flowers die, the stalk rolls up, carrying the encapsuled berry down
to the ground. It has received its common name from the fact that
hogs are very fond of the root.
Active principle.Arthanitin (cyclamin).
Part used.The root gathered in the spring.
Form
of preparation.Tincture
made by expressing
the juice from
the fresh root gathered in the spring, then adding an equal part of
alcohol
and
also by macerating in five parts of alcohol for
two weeks,
filtering.
CYPRIPEDIUM PUBESCENS.
YELLOW MOCCASIN. L \RGE YELLOW LADIES' SLIPPER.
This plant is indigenous to this country where it is also known as
the yellow moccasin, from its resemblance to the Indian shoe. It
grows about two feet high, with several flexible stems, having many
large, plaited leaves. The flower is large, yellow, showy, has no odor,
and is an inch or more in length. The perennial, wrinkled, almost
horizontal root, bearing many scars of the stems of previous years,
gives off a number of long, fleshy rootlets, turning abruptly downward.
All parts of the root have a peculiar nauseous smell and taste. It
often happens that the roots of other varieties are fraudulently mixed
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with, and sold for this plant, and it is exceedingly hard to distinguish
them by the appearance of the root alone.
Part used .The root gathered in autumn.
Form
the root in two parts of alcohol, two weeks.
DAPHNE
part of
Filter.
INDICA.
INDIAN DAPHNE.
shrub very closely resembling the laurel, native in China, and

in botanical gardens. It is about two feet high. The flowers
are wliite and inodorous, and grouped in bunches of ten or fifteen at
the top of the branch. Belongs to the mezereum family.
grown
Active principles.- Daphnin.
Daphnetin.
Volatile
oil.
Part used. The bark of the branches.
Form
of preparation.
Tincture,
part of
the bark of the branches in two of alcohol, two weeks, and filtering.
DATURA ARBOREA.
a native of Peru and the coast of California, and is also culThe flowers are long, tubular, bent downward, of a snowwhite color, and possess a very sweet odor. This plant belongs to
a family of which D. stramonium is the type. D. ferox (Chinese
datura) and D. metel (Indian datura) belong to this family, and have
same medicinal principles.
Active principle. Datura or daturin, said to be identical with
This
is
tivated.
atropia.
Part used. The flowers.
Form
part of
the flowers in five of alcohol, two weeks, and filtering.
DELPHINUS AMAZONICUS,
THE DOLPHIN.
This dolphin inhabits the mouth of the river Amazon, is nine or ten
body large and cylindrical, brownish-gray on the back, and
pure white on the belly. The jaws are long, narrow, and contain
twenty-six conical teeth on each side. There are three large fins, two
pectoral and one dorsal. The skin is thick and fibrous.
feet long,
Part used. The hide.
Form of preparation. Trituration
of the hide.
DEMATIUM PETRÛM.
A FUNGUS OF THE FAMILY OF MOULDS.
Form
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DEERIS PINNATA.
Form
of preparation. Tincture by maceration.
DICTAMNUS FRAXINELLA.
FRAXINELLA.
This perennial plant is found in Southern Europe, growing in
mountainous woods or upon stony, rocky hills, and is about two feet
in height. The upright stem is angular, streaked, and contains a
number
of red, resinous glands.
red, striped with a darker shade.
The flowers are either pure white or

The seeds are black and oval. The
whole plant exhales a resinous odor.

Active principles.
Volatile
oil, resin.
Form
made by expressing
the fresh leaves, then adding an equal part of alcohol.

ation in five parts of dilute alcohol,
two weeks, and
DIGIT ALINUM.
the juice from
Also by macer-
filtering.
(Digitoxinum.)
DIGITALINE.
The
active principle of digitalis
is
a white, crystalline substance,
odorless, but intensely bitter, soluble in alcohol, sparingly in water.

It causes violent sneezing when powdered. Digitaline is the generally
accepted title of a principle known by some as digitoxin.
Form of preparation. Trituration. Dilutions after third decimal.
DIGITALIS PURPUREA.
PURPLE FOXGLOVE.
The foxglove grows wild in central and southern Europe, where it
inhabits gravelly or clayey soils, but is cultivated in this country both
as an ornament and for its medicinal uses. The downy, leafy stem
stands from two to five feet high, and terminates in a spike of pendulous, bell-shaped, purple flowers are white internally and spotted
with black, and guarded by long, soft hairs at the mouth. The leaves
have a wrinkled, velvety surface, and bitter, nauseous taste. The
seeds, many and small, are contained in a two-celled capsule. Digitalis contains many proximate principles.
;
Active principles. Digitaline (digitoxin.)
Volatile
oil,
fatty oil,
digitalic acid, "digitalicrin," digitalosmin.
Part used. The leaves of the second year's growth of the plant.
Form
made by expressing
the leaves, then adding an equal part of alcohol.
one part in
five of dilute alcohol
brownish-green color, offensive.
the juice from
Also by macerating
two weeks, and
filtering.
Dark,
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DIOSCOREA VILLOSA.
WILD YAM. COLIC ROOT. HAIRY YAM.
A perennial, creeping, or
twining plant, indigenous from Maine to

Wisconsin, and having a long, branching, crooked root, that sends
out numerous fine, elastic and tough fibres. The texture of the root
is so woody, that it is very difficult to triturate it.
The vine twines
around small shrubs or young trees, sometimes ascending to a height
of six feet. The leaves are heart-shaped with the point turned on one
side
the flowers are small and white, and the seeds triangular. The
plant receives its name from Dioscorides, an ancient naturalist. Dioscorein is an extractive precipitated by water from an alcoholic solu;
tion.
Form
the fresh root in
two of
alcohol,
two weeks, and
part of
filtering.
DIRCA PALUSTRIS.
LEATHERWOOD. MOOSEWOOD.
shrub about five feet high when full grown, and native in the
United States and Canadas. The flowers are small, yellow, funnelshaped and appear in the spring before the leaves. The fruit is a red,
oval berry. The plant possesses fibres of such toughness and strength
that ropes, baskets, etc., are
Part used.
Form
alcohol,
made from
The inner bark of
the bark.
the branches.
of preparation. Tincture, by macerating one part in five of
two weeks and
filtering.
DOLICHOS PRURIENS.
COW
ITCH.
COWHAGE. MUCUNA PRURIENS.
native of tropical America, this plant is found twining itself

trees, and often attaining a considerable height.
The flowêrs resemble those of the pea vine, are red or purplish in
color, generally grouped in threes, and hang in pendant spikes a foot
in length. The fruit is a pod, shaped like the letter f, about four
inches long, and covered wdth brown, bristly hairs, that penetrate the
skin and cause a tormenting itching.
around the trunks of
Part used. The whole pod.
Form
the pod
in five of dilute alcohol,
two weeks, and
filtering.
part of
May
be
used in trituration.
DORYPHORA DECEM-LINEATA.
The Colorado
beetle,
COLORADO BEETLE.
best known as the potato bug,
is
of the
same
HOMCEOPATHIC
PHARMACOPCEIA.
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family as the cantharis, and possesses the same vesicating power. Its
home is among the foot hills of the rocky mountains, where it is sustained by a species of solanum growing in that locality. It attacks
the other solaniacsea ( the potato, tomato,) and commits widespread
devastation.
DROSERA ROTUNDIFOLIA.
RED-ROT.
MOOR GRASS. ROUND-LEAVED SUNDEW.
Mossy, turfy bogs, and the muddy shores of ponds and rivers is the
soil this plant prefers, and middle and southern Europe, South America and northern Asia are the localities where it abounds. Grows
wild about Hoboken, New Jersey. The radical leaves form a disk, in
the center of which the stem rises to a height of three to six inches.
This is crowned with a cluster of drooping white flowers that open for
a few moments at noon each day. The leaves are studded with reddish, glandular hairs, each tipped with a drop of limpid mucilaginous
fluid that glistens in the sun, like dew.
Form
made by expressing
the entire plant, then adding an equal part of alcohol.
brown
the juice from
Deep
reddish-
color, little taste.
DULCAMARA.
BITTERSWEET.
FELON WOOD.
The woody nightshade, as it is sometimes called, is not to be confounded with the deadly nightshade (atropa belladonna). It is a
climbing plant, growing both in Europe and this country, along the
borders of streams on moist ground, ditches and sheltered places.
The stem is slender, round, branching and woody, and often attains a
height of several feet. The leaves are soft, smooth, and of a dull
green color. The flowers are small and purplish, with long, lemoncolored anthers arranged in a cone. The fruit is a scarlet, oval berry.
Active principles. Dulcamarin, solania, picroglycion.
Part used. The leaves and stems above the woody portion, gathered in early autumn.
Form
the leaves and stems above the
part of alcohol.
weeks.
made by expressing the juice from

woody portion, then adding an equal
Filter.
Or by macerating one part in two of

Dark brownish-green color, bitter-sweet
alcohol,
two
taste.
ELAPS CORALLINUS.
THE CORAL SNAKE.
This snake
color
it is
is
more
found in the forests along the coast of Brazil, and in

than any other Brazilian serpent. The head
brilliant
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small, black, covered with polygonal scales, swells behind, and is

continuous with the neck, from which it is scarcely distinguished as
regards size. The eyes are small and round the jaws, slightly dilatable are furnished with sharp teeth, accompanied with fangs resting on
the venom glands.
The body is about two and one-half feet long,
round, large in proportion to the head, and covered with smooth,
rhomboidal scales. It is marked with alternating rings of vermillion,
black and greenish- white.
is
Part used. The venom.
Form
of preparation. Trituration of the
venom with sugar
of milk
in the proportion of one to ninety -nine.
ELATERIUM.
MOMORDICA ELATERIUM. SQUIRTING CUCUMBER.
This plant has s large, fleshy root, giving off a number of thick,
round stems that trail upon the ground like the common cucumber
vine. The flowers are yellow and the oval fruit is about an inch and
a half long, an inch in thickness, and of a greenish or grayish color.
When entirely ripe detaches itself from the vine and forcibly ejects
the seeds and juice from the opening in the base, where it was
attached to the stem. The juice is procured by slicing the fruit and
pressing it out on a fine sieve. It is then allowed to stand for several
days, during which time a sediment is deposited. This is separated
from the liquid and dried. It is then a light, friable substance, having a yellowish-white or greenish-gray color.
Elaterin.
The immature fruit.
Active principle.
Part used.
Forms
of
The inspissated precipitate.

preparation. Tincture made by expressing the juice
from the nearly ripe
MaceraMon
in
fruit,
two parts
of alcohol
two weeks, and
filtering.
EL^SIS GUINEENSIS.
A WEST INDIAN AND AFRICAN PALM TREE.
Part used. The entire fruit.
Form
EPIGÂ REPENS.
TRAILING ARBUTUS.
A prostrate, creeping evergreen, most frequently found in pine

woods, on sandy soil, and seeming to prefer a northern exposure. It
is one of the first plants to flower in the spring, sometimes before all
the snow has disappeared. The stem is trailing, woody, bristling with
rusty hairs, and gives off alternate, heart-shaped leaves.
The
flowers
HOMCEOPATHIC
PHARMACOPCEIA.
are small, rose-colored, very fragrant,
and disposed
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in clusters in the
axils of the leaves.
Active principles. Arbutin, analogue
co the glucoside of hydro-
kinone (arcturin).
Form
part of
the fresh root or leaves in two of alcohol, two weeks, and filtering.
EPILOBIUM PALUSTRIS.
MARSH EPILOBIUM.
plant growing from Pennsylvania to Arctic America.
Form
EQUISETUM HYEMALE.
SCOURING RUSH.
A cryptogamous
HORSETAIL.
found in great abundance in the northern

where it is seen growing in wet, shady grounds
and along the course of small streams. The rough stems contain a
large proportion of silex and from its domestic uses has sprung the
popular name.
plant,
states of this country,
Active principles.
(isomerics
aconitic
Silica,
and vegetable
acid, achilleic acid,
silicates.
Equisetic acid
citridic acid,
malic acid,
fumaric acid).
Form
part of
the entire plant in two of dilute alcohol, two weeks, and filtering.
EEGOTINUM.
ERGOTIN.
THE ALKALOID OF SECALE CORNUTUM.
This is obtained from the liquid remaining after the precipitation of

ecbolia with bichloride of mercury. This liquid is filtered and treated
with phosphomolybdic acid, the resulting precipitate being washed
with water. Mixed with water, to which carbonate of barium is
added in excess, it is allowed to stand until the yellow solution
becomes white. It is then evaporated to crystallization. Insoluble in
water, soluble in alcohol.
Form
of preparation.
in alcohol at
See Secale.
Trituration.
May
any attenuation, and in water after the
third.
ERIGERON CANADENSE.
CANADA FLEABANE.
This annual plant varies from two to six feet high
is
covered with
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many
branches. The flowers are small,

numerous, white with yellow disks, and are very inferior in appearance. It is frequently met with in fields, meadows, glades and commons, and is a most troublesome weed to the farmer.
stiff
hairs
and divides
into
Active principle. Pungent, volatile
oil.
Form
part of
the entire plant in two of alcohol, two weeks, and filtering.
EKIODYCTION CALIFORNICUM.
YERBA SANTA.
Form
ERYNGIUM AQUATICUM.
BUTTON SNAKEROOT.
This plant enjoys a certain reputation as an antidote for the bite of
venomous snakes, and is found mostly on the low prairies of Illinois
and Iowa, and in low, wet situations, as far south as Virginia. It
varies in height from three to six feet, with leaves lanceolated above,
sword-shaped below, one or two feet long, an inch in breadth, and furnished with bristling spines at intervals along the margin. The flowers
are inconspicuous, white, and in round heads.
Form of preparation. Tincture, made by macerating one part of

the root in two of dilute alcohol, two weeks, and filtering.
ERYNGIUM MARITIMUM.
SEA HOLLY.
Part used. The whole plant, including roots.
Forms
of preparation. Tincture, as with E. aquaticum.
ETHER SULPHURICUM.
ETHER.
SULPHURIC ETHER. OXIDE OF ETHYL.

C4 HioO.
volatile, inflammable, substitution product, the result of the

action of sulphuric acid upon alcohol and water. These are mixed
together in a retort, and distilled. The alcohol is dehydrated, ethyl
taking the place of alcohol. There is no sulphuric acid in its compoThe vapor passes into the ordinary receiver, where it collects
sition.
as a light, colorless liquid. It is afterwards agitated with an aqueous
solution of potassa, and redistilled. Ether when perfectly pure is a
limpid, transparent, volatile fluid, boils at a temperature of 98F.,
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does not freeze at 116F., below zero, and underpjoes chemical changes
with age. The term, sulphuric ether, simply denotes the acid used
in its preparation, and not that it is contained in it.
Form
of preparation. 1. Inhalation.
per cent at 82-3 specific gravity.
2.
(Schiff).
Alcohol will dissolve ten

Miscible in
all
proportions
(Thilorier).
ETHER NITRITUM.
SWEET
NITROUS ETHER.
Cg H5 O, N02 +C2 H5 NO2.
SPIRITS OF NITRE.
ETHYL NITRITE.
a mixture of nitric ether with nitrous ether. Prepared by

and sulphuric acid in the presence of
copper (wire). It becomes acid with age, and the pressure of nitrous
acid contained in it is sometimes so great as to burst the bottle. Pure
nitrous ether can be prepared by the action of nitrous acid directly
upon alcohol. It is isomeric with glycocoll.
This
is
distilling nitric acid, alcohol,
Form
of preparation. Solution in alcohol in all proportions,
therefore dilutions in the usual manner.
Water may be used
and
after
the second decimal.
ETHYL NITRICUM.
NITRIC ETHER.
C2
This substance
H5 O2 NO2.
,
not to be confounded with nitrous ether, or sweet

prepared by heating nitric acid and alcohol
together in a retort, in course of which a portion of the alcohol is oxidized, and the nitric reduced to nitrous acid. This is decomposed as
fast as it forms by the addition of urea, the alcohol and nitric acid
uniting to form a gaseous body, having a sweet taste and odor. The
vapor is apt to explode if too strongly heated.
spirits of nitre.
Form
is
It is
of administration. Inhalation.
EUCALYPTUS GLOBULUS.
AUSTRALIAN GUM TREE. FEVER TREE.
A native of Australia and Tasmania, this is one of the largest trees

known, sometimes attaining a- height of 200, 300, or even 350 feet, with
a diameter of fifteen feet or more. The bark is ash-colored and
smooth, the leaves a foot long, are spear shaped, curved like a scythe
blade, have a thick, leathery texture, and vary according to age from
a greenish-white to a bluish -green color. The flowers are white, sometimes single, sometimes clustering. The tree is of very rapid growth,
hard and resinous.
number of these trees planted in low, marshy
situations, it is said, drains the land effectually, and overcomes malarial emanations.
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Active principle. Eucalyptol, an essential
oil.
Form
the di'ied leaves in five of alcohol, two weeks,
and
part of
filtering.
EUGENIA JAMBOS.
This plant is a native of the Indies
stantly covered with flowers and fruit.
and
tropical
The bark
America, and con-
a reddish brown ;
the flowers are large and of a dull yellow color the fruit is roundish,
and about as large as a medium sized pear. This is used as an article
of food, but the four-angled seeds together with their envelope is
highly poisonous. The root also possesses violent toxical properties.
is
Active principles. Eugenic acid and eugenin.
(V)
Fart used. The seeds.
Form
the fresh berries in
two of
alcohol,
two weeks, and
part of
filtering.
EUONYMUS ATROPURPUKEA.
WAHOO
(of the
northern
states),
burning bush.
Sometimes an indigenous shrub, sometimes as a small branching

it is to be met with in the middle and western states of this
tree
country, usually wild, but often cultivated in the flower garden. The
flowers are small and dark purple the fruit is an oblong, deeply lobed
capsule or pod, occurring in great profusion, and having a bright
;
crimson
color.
Active principles.
Euonymin
several resins
organic acid and
their salts.
Form
part of
the bark in two of dilute alcohol.
EUONYMUS EUROPÛS.
Same general features and proximate principles
Form
as E. atropurpureus.
EUPATORIUM AROMATICUM.
DEERWORT. WHITE SNAKE ROOT.
This somewhat rare species of eupatorium is met with in low woods
and wet thickets, from Massachusetts to Louisiana. It is about two
feet high, and springs from a white, fibrous root. This is bitter and
possesses the same odor as the flowers. These are white, and exhale a
HOMCEOPATHIC PHARMACOPCEIA
pleasant, aromatic odor.
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It is said the aromatic principle is similar
to that of the tonka bean.
Active principles. Eupatorin found in E. cannabinum, other eupa-
toriums not analyzed.
Eupatorin of commerce
is
an
indetinite
extractive.
Form
the fresh root gathered in autumn, in
and
two parts of
alcohol,
part of
two weeks
filtermg.
EUPATORIUM PERFOLIATUM.
THOROUQHWORT. BONESET.
An indigenous plant growing in all parts of North America, is most

abundant on wet lands, swamps, wet meadows, borders of streams,
It is usually three or four feet high, and composed of a number
etc.
of upright, simple stems, branching in a three forked manner above,
and covered with fine, whitish hairs. Each pair of leaves are so
united at the base, that they seem to constitute but one, which is perforated at the centre by the stem. The flower heads are composed of
ten or twelve white flowers the seeds are black, oblong, and prismatic, and the root is perennial, horizontal, crooked, with but few
;
fibres.
Active principles. See E. arom.

eupatorin than other varieties.
Part used.
Form
Stronger and more evidences of
Bitter extractives
and
resins.
The entire plant when in flower.

alcohol, two weeks, and filtering.
the fresh plant in two parts of
of
EUPATORIUM PURPUREUM.
GRAVEL ROOT. QUEEN OF THE MEADOW.
perennial indigenous plant having a solid, pointed, green, sometimes purplish stem with inch broad, purple bands at the points. The
leaves are in whorls of 3s, 4s and 5s, rarely in 2s they are quite thin
and measure 8-12 inches long by 3-4 in breadth. The flowers are
tubular, and purple, ranging to whitish. The root is long, knotty,
whitish or brownish, with numerous fibres, and possesses a bitter
taste. It grows in swampy and other low grounds, from Canada to
;
Virginia.
Active principles. See A. aromaticum.

Part used. The fresh root gathered in autumn.
Form
the fresh root in two of alcohol, two weeks, and filtering.
part of
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EUPHORBIA COROLLATA.
FLOWERING SPURGE.
This plant has a large branching root, and numerous straight stems,
varying in height from two to five feet. It occurs in this country from
Canada to Florida, being most abundant in western Pennsylvania,
Virginia and Maryland, and is usually found in a dry, sandy, barren
The stems and branches contain a milky fluid the flowers are
soil.
large, white, and disposed in large terminal umbels
the fruit is a
;
smooth capsule, three celled and three seeded. The

is about two feet long, and an inch in thickness.
Active principles. Euphorbic acid and
its salts.
full
grown root
Euphorbin, and
(probably) oleum euphorbium.
Form
part of
the fresh root in two of alcohol, one week, and filtering.
EUPHORBIA AMYGDALOIDES.
SPURGE.
Part used.The whole plant.
Form
hol,
of preparation.- Tincture,
one week, and
by macerating
in
two parts
of alco-
filtering.
EUPHORBIA CYPARISSIAS.I
.
Part used. The whole
Form
CYPRESS
SPURGE.
plant.
of preparation. Tincture as in euphorbia amygdaloides.
EUPHORBIA HYPERICIFOLIA.
MILK PARSLEY.
This indigenous plant is slender, branching, usually found in dry
rich soils, and varies from one to two feet high. The leaves, when
torn, exude a milky fluid, having a sweetish, astringent taste. The
.flower is small
and white.
F'orm of preparation. Tincture same as amygdaloides.
EUPHORBIUM.
EUPHORBIUM OFFICINARUM. GUM EUPHORBIUM.
A resin obtained from euphorbise growing in Africa, southern Asia,

Indies, particularly at the Cape of Good Hope, and the Atlas
mountains. The Canary islands also afford it. It appears much like
the cacti, having leaflets pointed, angular stems, with branches beset
and the
HOMCEOPATHIC
PHARMACOPCEIA.
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with prickly hairs. If wounded, a white, milky juice is exuded, hardning in round, tear-like masses about the size of a pea, with a light
yellow color, and often perforated with one or two holes caused by the
juice concreting around one or more of the prickles, the latter sometimes remaining in the tears. It is inflammable, burning with a
brilliant flame, at the same time exhaling a fragrant odor. When
powdering this gum, a^fine, very irritating dust arises, which has caused
transient poisoning.
Form
hol.
Water may be used
burning
made by
saturated solution in alco-
Brownish yellow
color,
taste.
EUPHKASIA OFFICINALIS.
EYEBRIGHT.
A small plant inhabiting Europe and this country, usually met with
on the mountain meadows. It is but a few inches in height, with a
downy stem, and hairy root. The leaves are wrinkled, thick and
smooth the flowers are white, solitary, streaked with purple, and
grow on a leafy spike in the axils of the leaves, and at the tops of the
;
branches.
Form
two weeks, and
filtering.
part in
Dark, yellow brown
color.
EUPION.
A CONSTITUENT OF WOOD TAR.
The empyreumatic oil obtained during the destructive distillation of
pine wood, when allowed to stand, separates into two layers, a lighter
and a heavier portion. The former contains eupion. It is also a
mixture of oils obtained by distilling rich coals at low temperatures.
The
lightest liquid
Form
known.
of preparation. Insoluble in water.
Soluble in 96 per cent
alcohol.
FAGOPYRUM ESCULENTUM.
BUCKWHEAT.
This valuable grain, originally a native of Asia, is naturalized in
this country, where large amounts are annually raised and converted
into flour. It stands twô or three feet in height, with leaves one to
three inches long; the flowers, white, numerous and terminal, are
great favorites with the honey bee the fruit is shaped somewhat like
a small, dark beech nut.
;
Part used. The entire mature plant, when flowering.
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Form
two of
dilute alcohol, one week,
and
part in
filtering.
FAGUS SYLYATICA.
THE BEECH.
common
forest tree,
growing
in the
New
England and some
western states, and the Canadas. It has a tall, straight trunk rising
fifty or eighty feet, but of lesser height and more spreading in open
situations. The bark is light gray, approaching to white the leaves^
four to six inches long, often remain on the tree through the winter.
The nuts are small and contained in a four-lobed burr.
;
Active principles. The alkaloid fagin.
Soluble in water or alcohol.
1000 drops of alcohol dissolve four drops of beech-oil.
Part used. The nuts.
Form
of preparation. Trituration of the nuts.
week in five parts dilute alcohol, and

ing the residue and adding to filtrate.
erating one
Tincture, by macfiltering
express-
FEL TAURI.
ox GALL.
This
the biliary secretion contained in the gall bladder of the ox.

green or greenish-yellow in color, and very bitter to the
taste.
It contains bilin, cholesterin, olein, margarin, stearin, glycocholepyrin which is the coloring princholic and taurocholic acids
ciple, capable of being decomposed into biliverdin, a green coloring
matter, and bilifulvin a yellow coloring matter extractive matters
is
It is viscid,
and
salts.
Form of
ox
gall
preparation.
Trituration
made by rubbing two
with ninety-eight of sugar of milk.
parts of
Succeeding potencies are
triturated in the usual proportions.
FERRUM.
IRON.
Fe.
As an ore, this metal exists in many parts of the world,
but more espenorthern latitudes. In this country, Pennsylvania, northern

Michigan, upper Kew Jersey, New York, and a portion of Missouri
afford large quantities. England, France, Germany, Spain and Sweden
contain large deposits. The oxide gives a reddish tint to rocks and
clays, and it is one of the constituents of mineral (chalybeate) springs.
It is a constituent of proximate principles both in the animal and
vegetable kingdoms, and chiefly composes meteorites. Pure iron is a
white, tough, fibrous, exceedingly tenacious metal. This is prepared
cially in
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by manufacturing chemists from an iron oxide salt, and is an article

of commerce. Iron may also be reduced by triturating fine iron filings
in honey, subsequently washing on filter with water and alcohol, drying, and reducing by either scale in sugar of milk.
Form
of preparation. Trituration of ferrum
redactum
(p. 136),
or
iron filings, as stated above.
FEKKUM ACETICUM.
ACETATE OF IRON.
re3C2 H3 03
FERRIC ACETATE.
This salt is made by dissolving moist peroxide of iron in acetic acid

and concentrating the solution to the consistence of jelly or evaporating to dryness. Brown, uncrystallizable, very astringent.
Form
of preparation. Soluble in water or alcohol.
Saturated solu-
tion in water for tincture.
FEERUM ARSENIATUM.
ARSENIATE OF IRON.
Fes 2As04
To prepare this form of iron, the arseniate and acetate of soda are
dissolved in hot water, to which an aqueous solution of sulphate of
iron is added. The white precipitate that falls is the arseniate of iron,
sulphate of soda remaining in solution. The precipitate is washed on
a filter, subjected to strong pressure on a screw press, and dried at a
temperature of not more than 100 F. Although white when freshly
prepared, it soon changes to a green. It is insoluble in water, and
possesses neither smell nor taste.
Form of
preparation. Trituration
may
after the fifth decimal.
FERRUM CARBONICUM.
FERROUS CARBONATE. CARBONATE OF IRON.
Fe"C03
This is sometimes found in nature, as spathose iron ore, or iron

spar, and occurs in connection with the carbonates of lime or magnesia. The clay iron stone, from which nearly all English iron is
one of the components

by the rusty margin of
and shows
these, where it has been deposited by spontaneous evaporation. Artificially it is formed by the reaction of sulphate of iron (Fe"- Copperas
Ferroits sulph.) and carbonate of sodium upon each other, with the
addition of refined sugar to the precipitate to prevent oxidation of the
made,
is
composed of
this substance.
of iron or chalybeate springs
It is
itself
salt.
Form
tions after fifth decimal.
May
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FEREUM lODIDUM.
BINIODIDE OF IRON.
FERROUS IODIDE.
Tela
ferrous salt inade by digesting iodine in a flask with water and

metallic iron, the heat gradually raised until a white froth forms, and
the liquid strained through a muslin filter. This is still further concentrated, until it is of sufficient consistency to solidify on cooling,
when it assumes the crystalline form. It is greenish-black in color
and veiy deliquescent. Soluble in water when fresh, slowly decomposing.
Form
of preparation. Trituration of the recent crystals. Tincture^
saturated solution in water, with two parts (to one of Fel2

to preserve it
of sugar^
from decomposition.
FERRUM LACTICUM.
FERROUS LACTATE. LACTATE OF IRON.
Fe3,2C3H5 03,2H2
In order to prepare this salt, lactic acid is dissolved in distilled
water to which iron filings are added. The mixture is allowed to
digest upon a water bath until all chemical action has ceased, and
then filtered. Crystals are deposited in the filtrate, which in forty-eight
hours are filtered out and dried. It is in the form of greenish- white
crusts or granular powder, slightly soluble in water and alcohol.
Form
May
be transferred to water
after second decimal.
FERRUM
MAG:NÊTICUM.
BLACK OXIDE OF IRON. LOADSTONE.
native ore having the property of attracting to itself various

imparting to them the same quality and is an iron of
the lowest degree of oxidation. The artificial magnet receives its
power frequently from contact with this substance. This is formed
chemically by dissolving sulphate of iron in water and mixing with
These are
it solutions of persulphate of iron and sulphate of soda.
boiled together and on cooling, the precipitate falls, which is collected on a muslin filter, drained, washed and dried at a temperature
under 120 F.
articles of iron,
Form
May
FERRUM MURIATICUM.
FERROUS CHLORIDE. DI-CHLORIDE OF IRON.
FeCl2
Made by
+40H2
dissolving metallic iron in hydrochloric acid and evaporat-
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135
iDg to form crystals these are green, deliquescent, very soluble, and
slowly oxidize on exposure to the atmosphere. Keep well corked in
;
dark
bottles.
Form
of preparation.- - Tincture, solution in ten parts of alcohol.
FERRUM PHOSPHORICUM.
PHOSPHATE OF IRON.
reHP04
slaty-blue powder, prepared by dissolving sulphate of iron and

phosphate of sodium separately in water, and then mixing the solutions. The precipitate thrown down is phosphate of iron. Filter,
wash with hot water and dry.
Form
May be
FERRUM PEROXIDUM HUMIDUM.

MOIST
HYDRATED OXIDE OF
Fe03 Hg O+aq.
IRON.
To obtain this salt, a solution of persulphate of iron is added to a

solution of carbonate of soda as long as a precipitate falls. This is
separated from the water upon a filter, and enclosed in tightly stoppered bottles. It is a moist, pasty mass, of a brownish-red color.
Ferrum peroxidum
(dry) is used for trituration.
The humid
is
an
antidote for arsenical poisoning.
FERRUM PYROPHOSPHORICUM.
PYROPHOSPHATE OF IRON.
2Fe3
The preparation
03,3P05+9HO
is accomplished by the admixture of

phosphate of iron and aqua ammonia, with the addition of citric acid,
thus forming a citro-ammoniacal phosphate. It is reduced by heat to
a syrupy consistence, and spread on plates of glass or porcelain, where
it dries in scales, having an apple- green color.
These are readily
soluble in water, and have an acidulous, saline taste.
Form
of
of this salt
preparation. Tincture, a saturated solution in water.
FERRUM REDACTUM.
REDUCED
IRON.
IRON BY HYDROGEN.
In order to procure this, subcarbonate of iron is placed upon a sheet

iron tray, which is then rolled into an incomplete cylinder and placed
in a wrought iron reduction tube. This latter is exposed to the heat
of a charcoal furnace until it becomes a dull red. At the same time a
constant stream of hydrogen gas is made to pass through the tube fo
a certain time, when the fire is removed and the whole allowed to
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continuing a moderate current of the hydrogen. It is a fine,

grayish-black, lustreless powder, capable of forming a scale when
struck by ajhammer on an anvil, and strongly attracted by the magnet.
If black, it should be rejected, as it is not fully deoxidized.
cool,
Form
FERKUM SULPHURICUM.
COPPERAS.
SULPHATE OF IRON. GREEN VITRIOL.

S03 Fe "O, 7H2 O
This is procured by dissolving metallic iron in dilute sulphuric acid,

heating and filtering the mixture. The liquid thus obtained is heated
in amattrass until sufficiently concentrated, and then set aside in a covered vessel to crystallize. It is made on a large scale by exposing iron
pyrites to the action of the atmosphere, when it absorbs oxygen and is
converted into this salt. It is then dissolved in water and crystallized.
Sulphate of iron is in the form of large, pale, blue-green crystals that are covered with a yellowish efflorescence on exposure to the
air.
Its watery solution is used for disinfecting sliughter houses,
cellars, etc., and mixed with hydrated lime, it neutralizes the sulphuretted hydrogen of privy vaults and wells.
Form
tion in water at
any attenuation
May
to alcohol after the fifth decimal.
FERULA GLAUCA.
BOUNAFA.
Form
alcohol,
two weeks.
by maceration in
five parts of
Filter.
FILIX MAS.
MALE FERN.
This fern grows in Europe, Asia and northern Africa, and is also
in Great Britain.
In this country a species grows in the
pine forests of the middle states, but its identity is still in doubt.
The plant arises by numerous j-adical leaves, called fronds, attaining
a height of about four feet. The leaflets or pinnae, situated at certain
distances below approach nearer and nearer as they ascend, and terminate with a single one; the leaflets are oval, deeply lobed, and
diminish in size from the base to the apex, have crenate edges and
are of a bright, green color. The fruit is in the form of small dots on
the under side of each lobe. The root is round, ten or twelve inches
long, and one or two inches thick, covered with the remains of overlapping leaf stalks, and is of a yellowish-green color. The dried root
deteriorates with age and in time becomes inert.
common
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Form
made by macerating
the fresh root
gathered in July and August, in two parts of alcohol, two weeks, and
Dark brown.
filtering.
FLUORICUM ACIDUM.
(See Hydrofluoric acid).
FCENICULUM VULGAKA.
FENNEL.
Considerable diversity exists as to the species from which the seeds
of this plant are obtained. The F. vulgare is found in various parts
of Europe, on sandy, chalky soil
the F. officinale, more aromatic
than the last, is obtained from southern Europe the F. dulce is a
native of Portugal and Italy.
variety is grown in this country.
The great bulk supplied to the drug market of this country, comes
from Germany, The seeds are plane upon one side, straight oi slightly
convex on the other, gray-green in color, and possess an aromatic,
fragrant odor, and a warm, sweet, aromatic taste.
;
Form
of
preparation. Tincture,
the seeds in five of alcohol, two weeks.

"
part of
Filter.
FORMICUM ACIDUM.
FORMIC ACID.
CH2O2
This acid was discovered, first in the common red ant, but it is now
obtained, (1). By the slow oxidation of methyl alcohol or formic aldehyde in the presence of platinum black. (2). By the distillation of
dry oxalic acid with sand, pumice stone or glycerine. (3). The oxidation of sugar, starch, or gum.
mixture of peroxide of
(4).
manganese, dilute sulphuric acid and water, cautiously distilled.
This acid is a fuming, colorless liquid, having a strong odor and crystallizes on being cooled to zero.
It is very inflammable, burns with a
blue flame, and if applied to the skin, produces a blister or ulcer. It
is soluble in water and alcohol.
Form
of preparation. Dilutions in water or alcohol.
FORMICA RUFA.
THE RED ANT.
These insects live in colonies and are divided into three classes,
males, females and neuters the two former are provided with wings
the latter have none. At a certain period of development the two
sexes abandon their home and hover in the air, where they couple.
;
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The males
and the females, returning to the hills,

These are cared for by the neuters, who constitute
the greater bulk of the community.
The females and neuters are
furnished with two glands, situated at the posterior portion of the
abdomen, which secrete a highly irritating, acrid fluid, known as
die shortly after this
lay their eggs.
formic acid.
Part used. The entire living insect.
Form
made by macerating
ten parts of
the entire living insect in twenty of alcohol and ten of water, and
distilling
twenty parts from
this.
FRAGRARIA VESCA.
THE STRAWBERRY.
native state this plant is to be seen in woods, meadows, fields,
both in England and Ameiica. The plant is but a few
inches high, with a rounded, downy stem ; the flowers are white and
inodorous the fruit is a red, heart-shaped berry, dotted externally
with the seeds. The plant is extensively cultivated for the fruit it
In
and
its
hill sides,
affords.
Part used. The ripe
Form
fruit.
part of
the ripe fruit in two of alcohol.
FRASERA
An
indigenous,
(ÂROLINEN^SIS.
AMERICAN COLUMBO.
showy plant, common to the western
states, par-
Arkansas, Ohio, and Michigan. It is generally

met with in rich woodlands and on moist soils, and varies from five to
nine feet high, with a diameter of one or two inches. The leaves are
oblong, three to twelve inches long, and arranged in whorls of fours,
fives or sixes the radical leaves are about a foot long, and lie prostrate.
The flowers are yellowish- white or greenish-yellow, dotted
with blue or purple and disposed in terminal pyramids, varying from
one to five feet long the seeds, eight to twelve in number, are contained in a two-celled capsule. In the first two years the radical
leaves only are grown, but in the third year the stem and flowers are
produced, and it is only at this time the root should be gathered. This
bears some resemblance to columbo, and has a bitter- sweetish taste.
ticularly Missouri,
Active principles. Extractives, lignin, pectin,
absence of berberina indicates that
it is
etc.
The
entire
not a columbo.
Form
part of
the two or three-year old root in five of alcohol for two weeks, and
filtering.
Trituration of the dried root.
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FRAXINUS AMEBIC ANUS.

WHITE ASH.
The white ash is a tree of splended proportions, and of frequent
occurrence in the forests of the northern states and Canada. The
trunk is straight, and rises without a branch to a height of forty feet
or more, expanding into a large and graceful summit, with leaves a
more in length.
Part used .The bark.
foot or
Form
the bark in
five of alcohol,
two weeks and
part of
filtering.
FUCUS VESICULOSUS.
SEA WRACK. SEA KELP.
Much used along the coasts of England and Europe,
for production
much larger proportion. Its

name of " vegetable ethiops,"
of iodine, but other crytogams contain a
charcoal has been

as a medicine.
much
used, under the
Part used. The dried plant.
Form
of preparation. Tincture, maceration of one part to five of
dilute alcohol,
two weeks;
filter.
Trituration.
GADUS MORRHU^.
THE
Part used. The
Form
first
COD.
cervical vertebrae.
GALIUM APARINUM.
CLEAVEES.
G0C8E GRASS.
A trailing plant, common in this country and Europe, and growing
in uncultivated soils, moist thickets, along fences, the banks of rivers,
etc. The stems are several feet long, and closely embrace other plants
by means of hooked prickles, with which their surface is covered.
The leaves are arranged in whorls of eight; the flowers are small,
white, lateral and numerous; the fruit is large ana armed with
hooked
prickles.
The
root consists of reddish, creeping, hair-like
dyeing a beautiful madder-red. The bones of animals that

feed on this plant are said to be colored red after a time.
fibres,
Active principles. Galitannic acid, ''rubichloric " acid.

Form
of preparation. Tincture, by adding equal part of alcohol to
expressed juice, or by macerating one part in five of alcohol for two
weeks, and
filtering
or infusion, by percolation in
same proportion.
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Tincture trituration, of equal quantities (by weight) of expressed

juice
and sugar of milk.
GALLICUM ACIDUM.
GALLIC ACID.
C7 He O4
vegetable acid, existing in many plants as the sumac, green and

black teas, hellebore root, acorns, and many astringent plants. It is
mostly obtained from nut galls. These are excrescences formed upon
the boughs and young shoots of a species of oak, a certain insect
piercing these and depositing an egg in the wound. From the irritation thus produced a tumor is formed, growing in size as does the
contained larva. When the larva has come to maturity it eats its way
out. The galls are only eflficient before the egg is hatched, and are
then of a blackish, greenish color, about the size of a large pea or a
small cherry, and are chiefly imported from Syria and Asia minor.
The acid is obtained by allowing the powdered galls to macerate in a
pasty mass several weeks. Express, and reject liquor. Boil mass in
four times its weight of water. Filter. Pass filtrate through animal
charcoal to purify set aside to crystallize decant, dry on bibulous
paper. It readily oxidizes and becomes tannic acid, and with the
latter forms gallitannic acid.
It precipitates certain metals from
;
solutions.
Form
for tincture.
GAMBOGIA.
GUMMI GUTTiE. GAMBOGE.
This substance is often referred to in Homoeopathic literature as
guttse, a term of no value whatever, since it fails to particularize any gum or resin, and should therefore be discarded. Gamboge
is collected from a tree growing in Siam and Cochin China, and is
obtained by breaking the young shoots from which a juice exudes in
gummi
drops.
It is received in vessels
where
it solidifies.
Sometimes
it is
collected in hollowed bamboo

form. The resin is of an orange or orange-red color, very brittle,
breaking with a smooth, shining fracture, yellow when powdered,
forms an emulsion with water and a yellow tincture with alcohol,
The roll is considered to be most free from adulteration.
cane, giving the resin a cylindrical,
Forms
of
preparation. Tincture, made by dissolving one part of
the resin in five of alcohol, and filtering.
GAULTHERIA PROCUMBENS.
DEERBERRY. PARTRIDGE BERRY. WINTERGREEN.
A small, indigenous, evergreen shrub, about five or
six inches high
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PHABMACOP(EIA.
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growing in barren, sandy soils, from Canada to Georgia. It is quite

abundant in the '' pine barrens " of New Jersey. The root is horizontal, creeping, and sends up a number of stems. The leaves have
a spicy, fragrant odor and an astringent taste the flowers are white
the fruit consists of a scarlet berry, having an aromatic, sweetish
;
taste.
Active principles. Gaul theric acid (methylsalicylic acid.
Gaul-
therelene).
Form
five of alcohol,
two weeks, and
part in
filtering.
GELSEMIUM SEMPERVIRENS.
YELLOW JESSAMINE. FIELD JESSAMINE. BIGNONIA SEMPERVIRENS.
This is a climbing plant, native in the southern states, where it
luxuriates in rich soils from Virginia to Florida. The stem is twining,
smooth and shining, ascending the highest trees and festooning these
in an exceedingly graceful manner the leaves are long and lanceolate and the yellow flowers yield a delightful perfume. The fruit is a
black berry. The root, woody in texture, is several feet long and
varies in diameter from a quarter of an inch to two inches. Sometimes it is seen farther north, where it is cultivated as an exotic. It
is now frequently called gelseminum.
;
Active principles. Gelsemic or gelseminic acid.
The
semine.
latter is a strong base,
Gelsemia or
forming numerous
gel-
salts.
Part used. The bark of the root.
Form
the bark of the root in
two parts of alcohol
for
part of
two weeks, and
filter-
ing.
GENISTA TINCTORIA.
dyer's green WEED.
Form
of preparation.
GREEN WEED.
Tincture.
GENTIANA CRUCIATA.
CROSSWORT.
Form
alcohol,
by macerating one part
two weeks, and
Light, yellowish-brown color, bit-
ter taste.
filtering.
in five of
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GENTIANA LUTEA.
YELLOW GENTIAN.
This is the largest and handsomest of this genus, a native of mountainous Europe, growing among the Apennines, Alps, and Pyrenees.
It is also to be found in hilly situations in New York and other northern states. The plant stands about four feet high, bearing large,
yellow flowers, placed in whorls at the axils of the upper leaves ; the
root is thick, long and branching, contains glucose, and when macerspirituous
ated in water undergoes the vinous fermentation.
liquor drank in Switzerland and the Tyrol, is obtained from the fermented infusion by distillation.
Olea gentiana.
Active principles, Gentianin.
Gentianic acid.
Extractives.
Form
part of
the fresh root in two of strong alcohol, two weeks, and filtering. Yel-
low-brown, very
bitter.
GERANIUM MACULATUM.
WILD CRANESBILL.
An
indigenous plant, met with in all parts of this country, generally

in low, moist, sheltered localities. The stems are from one to two feet
high, grayish-green in color, covered with hairs, and purple in color
the root, fleshy, horizontal and perennial, is furnished with numerous
short fibres. The leaves are deeply divided into three, five or seven
lobes, hairy, pale green in color and mottled with paler spots.
Form
part of
GEUM RIVALE.
PURPLE AVENS. WATER AVENS.
This plant delights in wet, boggy soils in Europe, and this country
where it is found from Canada to Pennsylvania. The stems are about
a foot and a half high and purple in color. The flowers are drooping,
The root is jointed, horizontal, scaly, tapering
solitary, and purple.
and reddish-brown, usually about six inches long.
Part used. The plant when in flower.
Form
part of
the fresh plant in two of dilute alcohol, one week, and filtering.
GINSENG.
GINSING.
This
is
a plant growing in
hilly,
wooded
sections of the middle
and
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western states. It is about a foot high, divided at the summit into

three leaf stalks each of which has five or more leaflets the flowers
are small, greenish, and the fruit is a scarlet, kidney-shaped berry.
The fleshy root is spindle-shaped, one or two inches long, has a sweet
somewhat aromatic taste, little odor, and frequently divided in such a
manner that it bears a fancied resemblance to the human figure.
Immense quantities of the root are annually exported to China where
the most extravagant praises are accorded it.
;
Form of preparation. Trituration
of the dried root. Tincture
by macerating one part of the dried root in
and
filtering.
five of alcohol,
made
two weeks,
Straw-yellow color, slightly bitter taste.
GLONOINE.
NITRO GLYCERINE.
prepared by the action of a mixture of nitric and
sulphuric acids upon glycerine. It is a heavy, oily, yellowish substance without odor, and has a sweet, pungent taste. It is exceedingly explosive, the least jar or blow being sufficient to cause its
destructive effects, and is therefore employed to rend the stone in
mining, quarrying, excavating, etc. Upon continued exposure to a
temperature of 46i F., it assumes the form of long needle-like crystals, that explode violently when broken.
It has been ascertained
that one measure of this substance explodes into 10,384 measures of
This substance
is
gas.
Form
of preparation. Dilutions with alcohol.
GNAPHALIUM POLYCEPHALUM.
LIFE EVERLASTING.
A plant indigenous to Canada and this country, growing in old fields

and
sterile soils.
flowers are yellow
Part used. 1.
It is
herbaceous and from one to two feet high
the
and tubular.
The whole plant
(recent).
2.
The leaves and
flow-
ers of the dried plant.
Form
the fresh plant in two of alcohol, two weeks, and filtering.

tion of the leaves
part of
Tritura-
and flowers of the dried plant.
GOSSYPIUM HERBACEUM.
TELE
Cotton
fibre is
(pyroxalin),
COTTON PLANT.
used in medicine for the preparation of gun cotton
and hence,
collodion.
Part used for tincture. The
root.
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Form
part of
the root in two of alcohol.
GRANATUM
PUNICA.
POMEGRANITE.
small, shrubby tree occasionally reaching the height of twenty
and growing wild along the shores of the Mediterranean, Arabia,

and Japan. The branches are quite irregular and
armed with thorns. The flowers, employed in ancient times for dyeing, are large and of a rich scarlet color. The fruit is a round, yellow
berry, about the size of an orange, and consists of a horny rind and a
feet,
Persia, China
reddish, sweetish pulp, containing a number of oblong, angular seeds.

The root is hard, knotty, fibrous, covered with an ash-gray bark;
yellow on its internal surf ace, astringent without bitterness and with-
out odor.
its
It is
imported
in the
shape of
quills.
i:*unicin is said to
be
active principle.
Part used. The bark of the root.
Form
parts of alcohol for two weeks,
and
Tincture, by macerating in five
filtering.
GRAPHITES.
PLUMBAGO.
This
is
a pure mineral carbon, sometimes containing a very slight
trace of iron. It is a blackish-gray, shining substance, soft and

greasy to the touch, and is the material used for lead pencils. It is a
mmeral product of almost every country, and although of precisely
the same constitution as pure charcoal, diamond, and lampblack, is

possessed of distinct properties and relations. Its use in the adjunct
sciences of medicine is large. Crucibles, tubes, capsules, and especially battery-plates are manufactured from it, also occasionally carbon points for electric lights. An artificial graphite is found in the
scale that separates from the surface of molten cast iron.
Form
of preparation.
Trituration
of the finer qualities
may
be
transferred to dilutions after the sixth.
GRATIOLA OFFICINALIS.
HEDGE HYSSOP.
met with in southern Europe, where it inhabits wet
the margin of lakes, ponds, rivers, etc. The root is
rampant, horizontal and ivhite, to which numerous white hairs are
attached. The flowers are single and of a reddish-white color the
seeds are numerous and oblong. When recent, the plant has a bitter,
acrid taste, but no smell.
This root
is
meadows and
Active principles. Gratiolin, soluble in alcohol.

ble in water.
ives.
Antirrhinic acid.
Gratiolosin, solu-
Oleo-resin. Volatile oil
and extract-
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Form
of preparation.
Tincture, made by expressing the juice from
the entire plant gathered before flowering, then adding an equal part
Also by macerating in
of alcohol.
weeks and
filter
filtering.
five parts of dilute alcohol,
Express the debris
add product to the
two
filtrate
again.
GUAIACUM OFFICINALE.
LIGNUM VIT^.
A tree, forty to sixty feet in height, growing in the
West
Indies and
along the adjacent coast of South America, but more especially in

the Islands of Hayti and Jamaica. The bark is gray or ash-colored,
The
spotted or striated, and has a resinous, greasy appearance.
flowers are in bunches of eight or ten, and of a rich blue color. The
seeds are solitary, hard and oblong.
resin is obtained from it by
the
axis
billet,
placing
one end in the fire and
boring a hole in
of a
collecting the melted fluid as it flows out from the auger hole. Boiling the chips or sawdust with common salt is another method. The
concrete resin is greenish-brownish in color, reddish-brown internally,
leaves a pungent, acrid, after taste in the mouth, pulverizes easily, and
dissolves freely in alcohol.
Active principles. Guaiacic acid.
Guaiacene (guaiacin, guajacol,
guajol, pyroguaiacic acid).
Part used. The resin.
Form
of preparation. Trituration of the resin.
by saturated solution in dilute alcohol.
Tincture,
Dark brown
made
color.
GUARCEA TRICHILIOIDES.
REDWOOD OR BALL WOOD.
A large tree growing in the Antilles.

Form
Trituration.
GYMNOCLADUS CANADENSIS.
GOURGANES.
GROS FEVEIER.
KENTUCKY COFFEE TREE.
This tree has received its name from the fact that the seeds were
used as a substitute for coffee by the early settlers of Kentucky. It
rises straight and clear for twenty-five feet, and then branches into a
heavy top. The compound leaves are two or three feet long and fifteen or twenty inches wide. The flowers are large and white; the
fruit is a curving pod, six to ten inches long, containing several large,
hard, gray seeds, imbedded in a green, gummy pulp.
Part used. The pulp surrounding the seeds.
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Form
the fresh pulp in two of alcohol,
two weeks, and
p^rt of
filtering.
H^MATOXYLON CAMPECHIANUM.
LOGWOOD.
A tree
growing in Campeachy, Jamaica, Mexico, and the shores of

the Bay of Honduras. It is about twênty-five feet high, and averages
twenty inches in diameter, with contorted branches, covered with
sharp spines. The .wood is dark red in color, and tlie bark is rough
and dark. The flowers are brownish-purple at the calyx, with lemonyellow petals, and possess an agreeable odor. The wood is exported
to this country in the form of logs these are cut into chips or rasped
to a coarse powder an infusion of these is made with water digested
with alcohol, and evaporated to dark red crystals.
;
Active principles.
Hsematoxylin.
Ilsematin (not from blood which
is
Brasilin,
now known
haematoxylic
acid.
as haematosiu).
Part used. The wood
Form
of preparation.
the heart
ish- brown
wood
;
Tincture, made
in five of alcohol,
two weeks.
Filter.
Color, yellow^-
bitter taste.
HAMAMELIS VIRGINICA.
WINTER BLOOM. SNAPPING HAZELNUT. WITCH HAZEL. SPOTTED
ALDER.
An indigenous shrub found on hilly or stony localities, and upon the

borders of small water courses, and also in forests. The stems are
crooked and branching, covered with a smooth, gray, spotted bark,
and rise to a height of eight to ten feet. The yellow curled flowers
make their appearance from September to November, while all other
vegetation is declining. The leaves and twigs have a pleasant odor
and a bitter taste, with a pungent, sweet after-taste. Tlie smaller
branches, according to a popular superstition, were used for 'divining
rods," to discover the presence of metals in the earth, or deep springs
of water. Never has been thoroughly analyzed.
Fart used. The leaves and twigs.
Form
of preparation.
leaves, or bark of
weeks, and
Tincture, by
macerating one part of the
the root and branches, in two of alcohol,
two
filtering.
HECLA LAVA.
VOLCANIC LAVA.
This is the molten substance thrown out during the eruptions of
Mt. Hecla in Iceland, and consists of a variety of minerals that have
HOMCEOPATHIC
PHARMACOPCEIA.
147
been reduced to ii fluid state by volcanic fires. Analysis shows it to

be composed of lime, magnesia, alumina, silica, anorthite, oxide of
iron, and traces of other minerals.
Form
of preparation. Tritin*ation.
HEDEOMA PULEGIOIDES.
AMERICAN PENNYROYAL.
This plant grows in all parts of the United States, and especially
upon calcareous soils. It is from nine to fifteen inches high, branched
and hairy, blossoms all summer, and has a very strong scent with a
warm, mint-like taste. The flowers are small, pale blue, and arranged
in whorls upon the branches.
A volatile oil is obtained from it by
distillation.
The European pennyroyal belongs to another genus, the
apulegium
{the peppermint).
Fart
used. The whole plant.
Form
part of
the whole plant in two of alcohol, two weeks, and filtering.
HEDYSARUM ILDEFONSIATITM.
BARBA DE BOA.
growing on the precipitous sides of Mt. Willoughby, near
Westmore, Vt., five hundred feet above the lake below. From this
point north to Hudson's bay the plant is occasionally met with. It
is about two feet high, very leafy.
The flowers are large, violet
A plant
purple.
Part used. Leaves.
Form
of preparation.
five of alcohol,
Tincture, made
two weeks, and
filtering.
HELIANTIIUS ANNUUS.
SUNFLOWER.
Originally a native of South America, this annual has become natuIt is cultivated in gardens, and flourishes
over large areas in some of the western territories. While it grows
in almost any soil, its size is increased by a rich, fertile one. Its usual
height is about seven or eight feet, although it has reached ten, twelve,
and even more. The stem is an inch and a half in thickness, bears
ralized in this country.
large leaves, and is crowned by large, nodding, yellow flowers,

posed of a single disk with divergent rays.
Part used.
Form
The ripe
com-
seeds.
part of
the ripe, powdered seeds in five of dilute alcohol for one week,
filtering.
and
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HELIOTROPIUM PERUVIANUM.
HELIOTROPE.
This plant is met with both in Europe and this country. In the
latter, large numbers are seen growing along the banks of the Shenandoah, near Harper's Ferrj'.
The stem
is
about ten inches high
the
tlowers are white.
Form
HELLEBORUS FCETIDUS.
FETID HELLEBORE.
This
is
BEAR's FOOT.
a perennial herb, having a number of short, radical stems,

Some of the latter
foot high, bearing a
upon which the palmate leaves are supported.

being radical.
The flower stem is about a
close panicle of pale green,
sometimes purplish
flowers.
Form
part of
the dried root in Ave parts of alcohol.
HELLEBOKUS NIGER.
CHRISTMAS ROSE.
BLACK HELLEBORE.
This plant grows on the rocky and wooded mountains of Burgundy,

the Alps, Pyrenees, and Vosges. It is also encountered in Austria
and Greece. The flower stem rises directly from the root, is about six
or eight inches high, and bears one or two convex, pendant, rose-like
flowers, having a white or pale rose color, with sometimes a greenish
tinge. The.se unfold in mid-winter, and from this circumstance it has
been called the Christmas rose. The root is perennial, knotted, blackish externally, white within, sending out long, yellow fibres. Several
varieties have been used indiscriminately with H. niger, as II. orientalis
and H.
viridis.
Active principles. Helleboriu, soluble in water or alcohol.
and fixed oils.

Part used. The
Vola-
tile
Form
root.
part of
the dried root in five of dilute alcohol, two weeks, and filtering.
Brownish-straw color.
HELOXIAS DIOICA.
BLAZING STAR.
UNICORN PLANT.
STARWORT.
DEVIL'S BIT.
FALSE UNICORN.
A plant native to, and of frequent occun-ence in, the western states,
where
it
grows
in
woodlands and moist
localities,
although
it is
some-
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PHARMACOPCEIA.
149
times seen in low, moist situations in the middle and southern states.
It varies in height from one to three feet, with a smooth but somewhat angular stem. The flowers are small, numerous, greenish-white
and are in terminal, nodding masses, like a plume. The seeds are
many. The root is large, bulbous, very hard, and covered with transverse wrinkles. The plant is becoming rare and may become extinct,
if means are not taken to propagate it.
Active principles.
Helonin(?).
This alkaloid
is
the pseudo-ver-
from V. sabadilla, and, probably, not found in helonias.

Fart used. The root.
atrin
Form
part of
HEFAR SULPHURIS CALCAREUM.

IMPURE SULPHIDE OF CALCIUM.
CaS.
This is not to be mistaken for the '' liver of sulphur," which is a

potassium salt. Hepar sulphuris calcarea is obtained by mixing intimately together equal parts of finely powdered oyster shells and flowers of sulphur, enclOvSing this in a closely sealed clay crucible
and
exposing to a white heat for ten minutes, after which it is allowed to

cool.
On opening the crucible it is found to contain a white porous
mass, or a white powder, sometimes yellowish in tint. It has the odor
of sulphuretted hydrogen and possesses a putrid taste.
Form
May
HEPATICA TRILOBA.
LIVERWORT.
This plant receives its name from a fancied resemblance of the
leaves to the liver. It makes its appearance very early in the spring,
sometimes before the snow has gone. There are two varieties, one
prefering a southern, the other a northern exposure the former is the
officinal species.
The leaves are three lobed, obtuse, (those of the
other variety are acute), purplish, and supported on foot stalks
sprinjîng directly from the root. The flowers are numerous, solitary,
generally blue, but sometimes purplish or flesh colored. Not anal;
yzed.
Form
of
The full-grown leaves.

preparation. Tincture, made by macerating one
the full-grown leaves in two of alcohol,
two weeks, and
part of
filtering.
HERACLEUM SPHONDYLIUM.
cow
PARSNIP.
This
is
HOGWEED. BRANCHA URSINA. BEAR'S BKEECIl.
a plant of European growth, and
is tall,
rough, coarse and
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The
leaves are broad and from three
by adding an equal part of alco-
covered with short,
stiff hairs.
to five inches long.
Part used.
Forms
The root.
By macerating
hol to the expressed juice.
two weeks, and
in five parts of alcohol,
filtering.
HURA
BRAZILIENSIS.
ASSACU.
America, growing in the countries

drained by the Amazon. The provinces of Para and Rio Negro also
contain it. It affords a milky juice, called by the natives assacu being
exceedingly acrid, and producing an erysipelatous and pustular eruption when Hccidentally brought into contact with the skin.
tree, native to equatorial
Active principles. Hurin
Form
of preparation.
(?); possibly
Tincture,
from H. crepitans alone.
made by
collecting the milky juice
from the punctured stem, then adding an equal part of
alcohol.
HYDRASTIS CANADENSIS.
GOLDEN
SEAL.
ORANGE KOOT.
The stem
from
of this indigenous plant rises about eight or ten inches

a thick, fleshy root, or rhizome, and supports two, unequal,
terminal leaves. The flower is solitary, whitish, rose-colored or

and the fruit is a round, purple-red berry, closely resembling
a raspberry. The root sends out many radical fibres is employed by
the Indians for dyeing a rich orange color.
purplish,
Active principles. Ilydrastia, (hydrastin, hydrastina).

of the Eclectic practice (muriate of hydrastin)
basic principle
known
as hydrastin, but
is
is
Hydrastin
not the alkaloid
an isomeron with berbe-
rina.
Form
of preparation.
dilute alcohol for
Tincture,
two weeks
filter.
by maceration in
five
parts of
Trituration.
HYDROCOTYLE
ASIATICA.
THICK-LEAVED PENNYWORT.
small, trailing plant, growing on moist land in India, southern

Africa and the islands of the Indian Ocean. The leaves bear some
resemblance to the violet.
Forms
of preparation.
Tincture, made
the whole plant in five of alcohol, two weeks.
Filter.
HYDROCYANIC
HYDROGEN CYANIDE. PRUSSIC
(CHN).
An
exceedingly poisonous acid.
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ACID.
CYANHYDRIC ACID.
ACID.
HCy.
Readily obtained by decomposing
the yellow ferrocyanide of potassium with dilute sulphuric acid, and

distilling the mixture after reaction in a retort, and conducting the
vapor through a condenser. Its strength must be established by
volumetric lest with silver nitrate, before using, and reduced to 2 per
cent. The acid is a colorless, volatile liquid, having an odor like
peach blossoms or oil of bitter almonds must not be confounded with
" cyanic ' acid. It exists in three forms, solid, anhydrous and liquid.
One and one-half grains of the anhydrous acid is sufficient to cause
death, and a few drops of the liquid is fatal. Even inhalation of the
vapor produces headache, giddiness, etc.
It decomposes readily,
darkens in color, and deposits a carbonaceous matter. The acid is
present in the juice of the bitter cassava and is obtained by distilling
the kernels of peaches, plums, bitter almonds and the leaves of the
cherry laurel (laurocerasus).
;
Form
of preparation. Equal parts of a solution containing 2 per
cent, of the acid,
Mixes
and
dilute alcohol, for the
in all proportions with
first
centesimal dilution.
water or alcohol.
HYDROELUORICUM ACIDUM.
HF
fuming
by heating fluor spar

platinum
retort, and collecting it in a receiver of the same metal.
This acid
corrodes glass to such an extent that it has to be kept in leaden or
vulcanite vessels, and is used for etching on glass.
colorless, volatile,
acid, procured
(fluoride of calcium) with sulphuric acid in a leaden or
Form
of preparation. Dilutions with water; potentize in gutta
percha vials to the
fifth dilution.
H YDROPHOBIN UM.
THE VIRUS OF THE RABID DOG.
Form
HYDROPHYLLUM YIRGINICUM.
VIRGINIAN WATER LEAF.
The stem
a foot high, the leaves of which are so constructed that they are able to contain a small quantity of water, as
they do in early spring. The flowers vary in color from white to a
sky-blue, and are in large, roundish tufts. It is chiefly found in the
eastern, middle, and some of the western states.
of this plant
is
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JForm of preparation. Tincture,

the plant,
when
of
two of dilute alcohol, two weeks, and
in flower, in
filtering.
HYOSCIAMINUM.
HYOSCYAMIN.
(DATURIN. ATROPINE.)
C15H17NO
This alkaloid, also called hyoscyamia, is the active principle of
hyoscyamus. It is in colorless, transparent, silky crystals, soluble in
alcohol, less so in water, has no odor, but an acrid, disagreeable taste.
It is identical with daturin from datura stramonium, and also atropine from belladonna.
Form
A saturated
aqueous solution
for tincture.
HYOSCYAMUS NIGER.
HENBANE. HOGBEAN.
An
herbaceous, biennial plant, occurring in (xreat Britain, Europe

and this country, in which it has been introduced. It is seen growing
wild upon waste grounds, old and neglected gardens, graveyards, and
amongst the rubbish of ruined buildings. The root is long, tapering
somewhat, branching, resembling parsley so closely that it has been
eaten in mistake for the latter. The stem appears in the second year,
These, with the leaves,
is from one to four feet high and branching.
are hairy, clammy, and of a sea-green color. The flowers are of a
light yellow color, traversed by purple veins, and the fruit is a round
capsule, two-celled, covered with a lid, and contains numerous small
seeds. The whole plant has a rank odor. The leaves are fatal to
birds and dogs, but other animals eat them with impunity.
Hyoscyamin, a base identical to daturin from

atropine
from belladonna. The specific virtues of
stramonium
and
D.
hyoscyamin do not depend entirely upon this alkaloid, though it is
Active principles.
very powerful.
l*art used.
Eorm
The
entire plant
and
leaves.
made by expressing
the recent herb, then adding an equal part of alcohol.
the juice from
Also by mace-
rating the leaves in five parts of dilute alcohol, two weeks, and
ing.
Brownish-green
filter-
color.
HYPERICUM PERFOLIATUM.
ST.
A
and
JOHN'S WORT.
hardy, shrubby, perennial plant, growitig abundantly in Europe

from one to two feet, and often
this country, varying in height
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covering large areas. The leaves are covered with numerous transparent vesicles, which give them a perforated appearance when
viewed at a distance. The flowers are many, yellow in color, and
blossom from June to August. The fruit is a simple capsule containing numerous seeds. Red oil is a domestic remedy made by treating
the leaves of this plant with a fixed oil.
Part used. The fresh plant with leaves.
Form
of
the fresh plant in two of alcohol, two weeks, and filtering.
HYPOPHYLLUM.
A SPECIES OF AGARICUS.
IBERIS AMARA.
CANDYTUFT.
This plant is indigenous in England and is of frequent occurrence
on the continent of Europe. It is small, herbaceous.
Form
of preparation. Tincture of the seeds.
ICTODES FCETIDUS.
DKACONTIUM
FCETIDUS.
SKUNK CABBAGE.
curious plant growing in this country, the only one of its genus,
inhabiting swamps and other low, wet localities, particularly in the
central and northern states. The root is large, and gives off a number
of fibres that descend a distance of one or two feet. The spathe is
brownish-purple and spotted with red, yellow and green. The flowers
are placed on the spadix rising from the centre of the spathe, and
resemble the latter in color. The seeds, about the size of a pea, are
flecked with purple and yellow. The leaves are from one to two feet
long and from nine inches to a foot wide. All parts of the plant
exhale a fetid odor, due to a volatile oil that is partly dissipated in
drying, entirely so by heat.
Form
part of
the fresh root in two of dilute alcohol, one week.
IGNATIA AMARA.
IGNATIUS BEAN.
a tree growing in the
ST.
Phillipine Islands and

This is the product of
East Indies, having long, round, vine-like branches, and named by
the Jesuits after their founder. The flowers are long, tubular, nodding, white and very fragrant. The fruit, about the size and shape of
a pear, has a smooth, woody rind, enclosing in a cellular matter about
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twenty seeds. These latter are irregular, angular, hard, pale brown,
about an inch long and covered with soft down. There is no smell
about them, but they possess an excessively bitter taste.
Active principles. Strychnia.
Brucia.
Extractives.
Part used. The bean.
Form
of preparation. Trituration of the bean.
cult to pulverize they
must be cut into
and
tincture
The
triturated.
is
slices,
made from
Being very
diffi-
then moderately heated

this
powder by macerat-
ing two wrecks in one part of water, then adding three parts of alcohol,
and macerating two weeks longer.
very
bitter.
Filter.
Straw- yellow color,
ILEX OPACA.
AMERICAN HOLLY.
The holly is a medium sized tree growing along the
Atlantic seaboard
and the gulf region, and bears such a close resemblance to its
European relative, that it is considered by many to belong to the
same
species.
The
foliage is of a shining, perennial
is
hard and
The
The wood
green.
fruit is a red berry containing the bitter extractive ilicin.

tine grained.
Part used. The leaves and berries.
Form
the leaves
and berries
in
two of
dilute alcohol,
part of
two weeks, and
filter-
ing.
ILLISIUM AJSISATUM.
SNIXATUM STELL VTUM. STAR ANISE SEED.
This is not to be mistaken for the ordinary anise seed (pimpinella
anisum) as it is from altogether a dift'ei'ent plant. This is an evergreen growing in China, Japan, and Tartary, the fruit of which consists of from five to ten brownish, fibrous capsules, less than half an
inch long and united at one end to form radii like a star. Each of
these contains a brown, shining seed.
Part used. The ripe
Form
fruit.
and macerating one part
made by powdering
in five of alcohol, one week.
the ripe fruit

Filter.
IMPERATORIA OSTRUTHIUM.
MASTP]RAVORT.
This
is
an umbiliferous plant found
common name
is
in the south of Europe.
also applied to the angelica atropurpura.
Form
of preparation. Infusion of the root.
The
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INDIGO TINCTORIA.
INDIGO.
a plant growing in a sandy, loamy soil in the East and West
Indies, the northern part of South America, South Carolina and
Florida. The juice of the plant is dissolved out with water, and concentrated to a solid mass.
This
is
Form
INDIUM.
metal discovered to exist in very small quantities in zinc blend.

and makes a black mark
u))on paper like a lead pencil.
It has a lead-gray color, is soft, malleable,
Form
of preparation.
Trituration.
INULA HELENIUM.
ELECAMPANE.
A native of Europe, where it is also cultivated, this plant is naturalIt is most frequently met
and thence south to Pennsylvania.
The root is thick and branched with many small fibres. It is brown
externally, white internally, has a camphorous smell and a warm,
bitter taste. The flowers are large, golden yellow, and placed at the
end of the stem and branches.
Active principles. Inulin helenin bitter extractives and resins.
ized to a certain degree in this country.
New England
with in the
states
Part used.
Form
The root.
weeks, and
by macerating in dilute alcohol two
filtering.
lODOFORMUM.
IODIDE OF FORMYL.
IODOFORM.
CHl3
Prepared by heating an alcoholic solution of iodide of potassium to
140'^
F.,
and
stirring in successive portions of chlorinated lime.
on cooling, which are filtered out in close vessels, and then treated with boiling 90 per cent, alcohol, by which the
Evaporation furnishes the crystals,
iodoform alone is dissolved.
which are in small, yellow, six-sided scales, having an odor like
saffron, and a sweetish taste. Very volatile.
mass
of crystals forms
Form
of preparation. Solution of one part of the crystals in eighty
of alcohol.
(SeruUas).
Very soluble
in alcohol.
(Elliott).
lODIUM.
IODINE.
A non-metallic element mostly obtained
from kelp or sea weed.
It
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minute quantity in all three kingdoms of nature. The

northern shores of Scotland and Iceland furnish the greatest amount
of kelp, where it is burned to ashes, mixed with water and concentrated by heat. By this process nearly all the salts are precipitated,
the more soluble ones being retained in solution. Sulphuric acid is
added to the liquid, and the whole distilled with deutoxide of manganese, the iodine being condensed in a series of glass receivers. It
is afterwards purified by sublimation.
Iodine is in shinmg, crystalline plates, or scales of a bluish-black color, having an odor like
chlorine, and a hot, acrid taste. It is soluble in alcohol and ether, dissolves in seven thousand parts of water, and strikes a deep blue color
with starch.
also exists in
Form
of
alcohol.
Tincture
Freely soluble in alcohol.
(Wittstein).
made by
(To conform
Soluble in ten to twelve parts

(Vanfuelin).
dissolving one part of iodine in twelve of alcohol.
in strength
with that universally in use).
IPECACUANHA.
IPECAC.
ipecacuanha.
cepii.4:lis
growing in the moist, thick, shaded woods

about two or three feet long, but as a con-iderable portion is beneath the surface it does not rise more than a foot
above ground. It has an ash-colored or brownish bark, and is furnislied with but few leaves. The flowers are small, white, and
grouped in eights, twelves, or more. The fruit is an oval berry,
purple at first, changing as it ripens to black, and contains two small,
plano-convex seeds. When pulverized, a nauseous odor is developed,
and an acute attack of dyspnoea is frequently excited.
small, shrubby plant,
of Brazil.
The stem
is
emetia,
oil;
the
emetic principle.
Ipecacuanhic acid.
Form
of preparation.
Tincture,
Trituration
dilute alcohol,
two weeks, and
of the dried bark of the root.
part of the dried root in five of
filtering.
IRIS FLORENTINA.
ORRIS ROOT. WHITE FLAC4.
This is a native of Italy and other parts of southern Europe. The
root, of various forms and sizes is branched, knotted, white, about
the thickness of a thumb, and in the recent state possesses an agreeable odor, losing this in a great measure on drying. The leaves are
sword-shaped, spring directly from the root, and are shorter than the
stalk. This rises from among the clustered leaves, is about a foot
high, and bears at its summit two large, white or bluish-white flowers
The fruit is a two-celled capsule containing a number of seeds.
PHARMACOPCETA.
iiOMCEOPATHIC
Active principles.
Volatile
oil
two
l5t
resins, fixed oleo-resin
and a
crystallizable resin.
Form
of preparation.
fresh root in
tlie
two
Tincture
of dilute alcohol,
two weeks, and
part of
filtering.
Trit-
uration.
IRIS VERSICOLOR.
BLUE FLAG.
An
indigenous species found in low, wet, marshy grounds in nearly

parts of this country. The root is horizontal, fibrous and fleshy ;
the leaves are sword-shaped and sheathed at the base, and the flowers
are blue or purple, and vary in number from two to six. I'lant not
analyzed for proximate principles. Irisin is an extractive, thrown
down from tincture by water.
all
Part used . The fresh
Form
root.
the fresh root in
two of
alcohol, one

week, and
part of
filtering.
JABORANDI.
The
is one of a species of shrubs growing in

and bark of which, when chewed, produce a prickling heat in the mouth. The fruit consists of several carpels, splitting
in two valves when ripe, and disclosing the seeds, all of which resem-
pilocarpus pinnatus
Brazil, the leaves
ble cockle shells with the valves opened.

obtained from this plant.
Active principles.
Jaborandine.
The
alkaloid pilocarpia
is
Pilocarpia, an alkaloid.
Fart used. The fresh leaves.
Form
two
of alcohol,
two weeks, and
part in
filtering.
JACARANDA CAROBA.
This tree attains a height of twenty feet or more, and is very comin the gardens and plantations of Brazil. The wood is white
and the flowers blossom in September.
mon
Form
one part of the flowers in
Tincture,
five of alcohol,
made by macerating
two weeks, and
filtering.
JALAPA.
JALAP.
This plant
is
IPOMCEA PURGA.
a native of the
Mexican Andes at an elevation of
six
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thousand
whose
its name from the city of Xalapa, in

abundant. It is said to grow also in Florida and
It is a climbing vine and ascends trees or buslies to a
and receives
feet,
vicinity
STATES
TJNITEI)
it is
the Carolinas.
considerable height. The leaves are large and heart-shaped, and the
large flowers have a lilac-purple color. The root or tuber is roundisli
or pear-shaped, varies in size from a nut to the size of a fist, has a
black, resinous bark, and gives off many radicals. When received in
this country it is in the form of transverse, circular slices.
Active principles. Rhodeoretin, jalapin.

in fact " convolvulin "
jalap.
Jalapic acid
is
Jalap resin.
Jalapin
is
from the convolvulus orizabenzis, a spurious
not a natural principle in the root.
Form
of preparation.
Trituration

hol,
two weeks, and
of
the dried root.
Tincture,
part of the dried root in five of dilute alco-
Brownish-straw
filtering.
color,
nauseous
taste.
JASMINUM OFFICINALE.
WHITE
A native of
JESSA3IINE.
Asia, but extensively cultivated for
its
fragrant flowers
and handsome appearance. The twining stem is several feet long,

with lance-like leaves, and supports a few white, terminal flowers. An
oil is extracted from this plant by the perfumei'.
Form
of preparation.
five of alcohol,
Tincture, made
two weeks, and
filtering.
JATROPHA CURCAS.
PURGING NUT. CUBAN PHYSIC NUT. BARBADOES NUTS.
A tree growing in Cuba, Brazil and on the west coast of Africa.

Although a small tree, it has a large, branched top the fruit is a
;
containing a blackish-brown, oval

planO'Convex, striated seed, having a white, almond-like kernel.
This has at first a sweetish taste, afterwards acrid and corrosive.
colorless, odorless oil is expressed from it, which on standmg deposits
a whitish substance, supposed to be margarine.
three-celled
capsule, each cell
Active principles. Resin.

cinal power,
(ol.
Free acids.
Oil, of considerable
medi-
cicinum).
Form
parts of alcohol for two weeks.
Tincture, by macerating in five
Filter.
JUGLANS CINEREA.
BUTTERNUT. WHITE WALNUT. OIL NUT.
An indigenous forest tree of
great size, having horizontal branches
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159
a large, tufted head, and smootli, grayish branches. The leaves are
very long, with many leaflets, and the flowers in the form of long
aiiients.
The truit drupe is oblong, hairy, brown when ripe and contains a dark colored, oblong nut, having a thick, oily kernel.
Active principles.
''
Juglandic acid.
plant.
Juglandin " of
J. regia
does not exist in this
Neucin.
Part used. The bark of tree or root.
Form
two
of preparation.
of alcohol,
Tincture,
two weeks, and
part in
liltering.
JUGLANS REGIA.
PERSIAN WALNUT.
A dark colored, oblong nut, having a thick, oily kernel.

Active principles. Juglandin, nearly insoluble alkaloid.
Part used.
Form
The leaves and rind of
the green fruit.
part of
the leaves and rind (equal parts) in five of alcohol, and filtering.
Express debris and add the product to the
filtrate.
JUNCUS EFFUSUS.
An
BULRUSH (?). SOFT RUSH.

growing in ditches, swampy
aquatic plant
two or three
green flowers. The seeds are
form of
Form
hol,
tufts
feet high,
yellowish.
one week, and
lands, etc., in the
and bearing numerous small
by macerating in
five parts of alco-
filtering.
JUNIPERUS COMMUNIS.
JUNIPER.
a native of Europe, and has been naturalized in some parts
It is a small, shrubby tree, six or eight feet high,
having a number of prostrate branches, and rises in the form of a
slender pyramid. The leaves arianged in whorls of 3's are long,
ending in a sharp, bristly point. Tiie fruit is a round or oblong berry
about the size of a pea, blackish-purple in color, and contains a brownish-yellow pulp and three angular seeds. These possess an aromatic
odor and a terebinthinate taste, in common with the resin naturally
exuding from the bark, and are used to manufacture gin. Proximate
principles unimportant and uncertain. Cedrene(?).
This
is
of this country.
Part used. The berries, received from the south of France.
Form
two
of dilute alcohol,
one week, and

filtering.
part in
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STATES
JUKIPERUS VIRGIN[ANA..
JUNIPERUS SABINA.
RED CEDAR.
An
evergreen tree of very slow growth and found most frequently

maritime parts of this country, in rocky, dry soils. The fruit
is a blue berry covered with a white powder; the wood is reddish,
firm, durable, and the branches are frequently dotted with small
excrescences, of resinous substance, called cedar apples. It contains
many but unimportant extractives. Cedar oil has some specific prop-
in the
erties.
Part used. The young twigs and leaves.
Form
two
of alcohol,
two weeks, and
part in
filtering.
KALI ACETICUM.
''normal" ACETATE OF POTASH. POTASSIUM ACETATE.
(C2 H3 03 )K
To carbonate
of potassium
add acetic acid until a faint acid reac
evaporate to dryness, heat to fusion. On cooling slowly

These masses are white, satiny, smooth, deliquescent,
have a pungent, saline taste, and are resolved into an oily liquid on
exposure. From its foliated texture it has been called foliated earth
tion
it
is
given
crystallizes.
of tartar.
Form
It is fully soluble in ether,
and
alcohol,
more so
in water.
for tincture, (about one part to three of alcohol).
KALI ARSENITUM.
ARSENITE OF POTASSIUM.
AS2O3.K2O
Add
solution of arsenious acid to solution of potassa until the reac-
neutral; evaporate.
hygroscopic salt, soluble in water,
insoluble in alcohol. The above is the normal salt.
tion
is
Form of
May be transferred
to alcoholic
dilutions after the third decimal.
KALI BICHROMICUM.
BICHROMATE OF POTASSIUM.
K2 O, (Cr2 0.3 )2
To
a strong solution of neutral, yellow chromate of potassa add

excess of sulphuric acid, and slowly evaporate, until the
1 ight
bichromate of potash crystallizes in the form of orange-red crystals.
Do not evaporate more than two-thirds of the menstruum. The
crystals are large, prismatic, and soluble in ten parts of water, but
not in alcohol. It is of frequent use in dyeing and for printing calicoes.
HOMCEOPATHIC
Form
PHARMACOPOEIA.
for tincture.
Alcohol
may
161
Saturated solution in water
be used after third decimal attenuation.
KALI BEOMIDUM.
KALI HYDROBROMICUM. BROMIDE OF POTASSIUM.
KBr.
Bromine and zinc scraps are put in twenty or thirty parts of water.
In two or three days the water contains bromide of zinc. Filter. To
filtrate add carbonate potash, (pure), until the zinc is all thrown down
as carbonate. Filter. Wash, add wash water to filtrate and evapoSet aside to crystallize.
cubic crystals, having a warm, saline taste.
rate to one- fourth.
Form
It is
then in colorless,
of preparation. Trituration. Saturated solution in water for
tincture.
Alcohol
may be used after
second decimal.
KALI CARBONICUM.
NORMAL CARBONATE OF POTASSIUM.
K2 O, CO2
obtained from wood ashes
This salt is chiefly

the alkali being
incombustible is yielded unchanged. A saturated, watery solution of
this is then subjected to a temperature which fuses it, and burns out
combustible matters. This is a solid at ordinary temperatures, and is
known as impure carbonate of potash. To purify this, an equal part
of cold water is added to precipitate other salts contained in it, after
which it is filtered, evaporated to concentration, and allowed to cool,
when the salt is deposited in small crystals.
very pure article is
made by fusing bicarbonate of potassium in a crucible. On cooling,
it is dissolved
distilled water, filtered, evaporated to dryness, constantly stirring, to form a granular salt. Carbonate of potassium also
;
exists in fieldspathic rocks.
Form
of preparation. Solution in dilute alcohol for tincture.
Trit-
uration.
KALI CHLORICUM.
POTASSIUM CHLORATE.
K CIO3.
CHLORATE OF POTASSA,
KO, CIO2.
There are several methods of preparing this salt. The simplest is

by the conduction of chlorine gas into a wârm solution of carbonate
of potassium until the solution is saturated evaporate to some extent,
and then allow the solution to cool crystals of chlorate of potash are
deposited. Hydrate of lime is sometimes added to the solution of carbonate of potassa, previous to the introduction of chlorine, the chloride of (calcium remaining in the solution, and the clilorate of potassa
;
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crystalizing as before.
violently
Filter
on being struck, and
and
is
dry. It is a white salt, exploding

one of the ingredients of the so-called
parlor matches.
Form
of preparation.
Cannot be safely
ution in water for tincture.
triturated.
Dilute alcohol
may
Saturated
sol-
be used for second
decimal.
KALI CYANIDUM.
CYANIDE OF POTASSIUM. CYANURET OF POTASSIUM.
KCy. (KCN). (HKO H Cy, the Hydrocyanate.)
Ferrocyanide of potassium, rendered anhydrous by gentle heat, and
dried carbonate of potassium are intimately mixed, in proportion of
eight to three, and the mixture placed in a red hot, iron crucible, and
heated until effervescence ceases. Decant into shallow vessels, care
being taken that the metallic iron at the bottom of the crucible is not
poured out. Thus prepared it is in white, opaque, deliquescent masses,
and exceedingly impure. Soluble in water, slightly soluble in alcohol.
Form
Saturated solution in water for
tincture.
KALI FERKOCYANIDUM.
YELLOW PRUSSIATE OF POTASH.
FERROCYANIDE OF POTASSIUM.
K4 Fe" Cye
Prepared by heating refuse animal matter, (as horse's hoofs, old
which are rich in nitrogen), witli
impure carbonate of potassa and iron filings. These are digested to a
pasty consistence, dipped out, allowed to cool, and then treated with
hot water to dissolve out the salt. Filter and evaporate the filtrate to
crystallization. The crystals are large, transparent, yellow, without
odor, having a sweetish, bitter, saline taste soluble in water, but not
leather, dried blood, etc., all of
in alcohol.
Form
tincture.
KALI HYPOCHLORITUM.
HYPOCHLORITE OF POTASSA.
To
solution of potassa hydrate add hypochlorous acid until the reacneutral. Evaporate by sand or water batli. This salt exists
only in mixture with other potassa-chlorine combinations.
tion
is
KALI HYPOPHOSPHITUM.
HYPOPHOSPHITE OF POTASSIUM.
KPO3
When
113
solutions of hypopliosphite of calcium and granulated car-
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168
bonate of potash are mixed, a double decomposition takes place, in

which carbonate of lime and hypophosphite of potassa are formed,
the former being precipitated. The latter, held in solution, is obtained
by evaporation to dryness, stirring constantly in order that the salt
*
may granulate.
Form
Trituration.
KALI lODIDUM.
IODIDE OF POTASSIUM.
KI.
Potassa and iodine are heated together in water and evaporated to
dryness, pulverized charcoal being mixed with it before the evaporaIt is then powdered, placed in a crucible and
tion is complete.
exposed to a red heat for fifteen minutes, cooled, dissolved in water,
Another method consists in immersing
filtered and crystallized.
iodine with iron filings or zinc scraps in water, iodide of iron or zinc
resulting. The solution is filtered, decomposed with pearl ash, by
which carbonic acid unites with the metal and precipitates, leaving
iodide of potassium in solution, which is filtered or evaporated to crystallization. There are still other processes for producing this salt.
Iodide of potassium is in the form of transparent, cubic, usually
opaque, crystals.
Form
for tincture.
KALI PERMANGANICUM.
PERMANGANATE OF POTASSIUM.
K2 Mn2 Os
If manganate of potassa is placed in a large amount of water, it
decomposes into hydrated dioxide of manganese and permanganate
of potassium, the former precipitating, while the latter remains in
solution, forming a deep purple liquid. Filter. Evaporate to crystallization in the form of slender, dark purple crystals, having a sweetish, astringent taste are quite soluble in water, to which it imparts a
;
Great care should be taken to preserve it in tightly

stopped bottles, as organic matters floating in the atmosphere are
acted upon by it, to the injury of the preparation.
rich, purple color.
Form
for tincture.
KALI NITRICUM.
NITRATE OF POTASH. NITRE. SALTPETER.
KN03
This
salt exists
pre-formed in caves, beds, and the crevices of lime-
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stone rocks, and is obtained from all these sources.

The state of
Kentucky contains nitre caves, large deposits occur in Bradford
county, Penn., and the vicinity of Nashville, Tenn. It is claimed
that a mountain of this substance has been found in the Rocky mounsix miles northeast of crystal peak."
In the eastern hemisphere, Europe, Egypt and India furnish laige amounts. In France
and Germany it is formed artificially by mixing animal and vegetable
refuse with mortar and loose soil and watering the heaps occasionally
with putrid urine. After a time the whole is lixiviated with water,
and decomposed with a solution of wood ashes, concentrated, crystallized and afterwards purified. It is a white salt, having a sharp, cool,
saline taste, dissolving in water but not in alcohol.
tains,
''
Form
tincture.
KALI OXALICUM.
SALT OF SORREL.
BINOXALATE OF POTASSIUM.
C3 HK04 +2Aq.
SALT OF LEMONS.
The name, salt of sorrel, is derived from the fact of its existence in
the plants bearing the name of sorrel. In Switzerland and Germany
it is procured mainly from the oxalis acetosella or wood sorrel, but
may be prepared artificially by making two solutions of oxalic acid in
hot water, neutralizing one with carbonate of potassium and then
adding the other. Crystals are formed on cooling, having a sour taste
and but sparingly soluble in water.
Form
the
first
of
Dilutions
may be
used after
decimal.
KALI PHOSPHORICUM.
PHOSPHATE OF POTASSIUM.
2K, H PO4 H2 O
Dissolve glacial phosphoric acid in water and boil. Saturate a solution of potassium carbonate with this solution of phosphoric acid and
heat gently ; filter, and slowly evaporate on sand bath to crystallization. The tribasic, neutral salt is produced, though slightly alkaline.
Form
for tincture.
KALI PICRICUM.
Nearly insoluble in
Form
PICRATE OF POTASSIUM.*
C7 H4 K (NO3 )3 O
water and alcohol.
after the second decimal.
May
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166
KALI TERSULPHIDUM.
POTASSIUM SULPHTJKATUM. LIVER OF SULPHUR. TERSULPHIDE OF
SIUM. HEPAR SULPHURIS.
K2 S3
When sublimed sulphur and carbonate of potassium are rubbed tea

powder, intimately mixed, fused in a covered crucible and poured out
upon a stone slab, a dark brown mass results, which is sulphide of
potassium, also called hepar sulphuris or liver of sulphur from its
resemblance in color to that of a recent liver. It should be remembered, however, that this is not the hepar sulphuris calcarea. When
dry it is brittle, when moist it is much less so, and then gives off
sulphuretted hydrogen. It is soluble in water, to which it imparts a
yellow color, and at the same time evolves the above-named gas.
^
Form
for tincture.
KALI SULPHURICUM.
SULPHATE OF POTASSIUM. VITRIOL ATED TARTAR.
K2 SO4
This occurs as a secondary product during the manufacture of other
chemical substances, and is a white salt, crystallizing in numerous,
small, hard, transparent prisms, bearing some resemblance to those
of quartz. It is soluble in water bur insoluble in alcohol.
Form
of
for tincture.
KALI TARTARICUM.
TARTRATE OF POTASSIUM. SOLUBLE TARTAR.
Ks C4 H4 06
A neutral salt, prepared by neutralizing a solution of bi-tartrate of

potassium with carbonate of potassium to the point of saturation, and
then crystallizing. The crvstals are permanent, and have a bitter,
saline taste.
Form
for tincture.
KALI TELLURICUM.
TELLUKATE OF POTASSIUM.
Te04 K3
Add solution of telluric acid to a solution of potassium carbonate

in hot water, until the alkali is fully neutralized. Evaporate gently.
Soluble in water.
Form
Insoluble in alcohol.
of preparation. Trituration. Saturated solution in water for
tincture.
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KALMIA LATIFOLIA.
CALICO BUSH. LAMBKILL. MOUNTAIN LAUKEL. SPOONVVOOD.
Sometimes as a shrub, sometimes a small tree, the mountain laurel
is met with in various parts of this country, and as its name implies
in hilly, mountainous situations. The leaves are narcotic and fatal to
sheep, although deer, goats and partridges eat them apparently without liarm. It is said, however, that the flesh of partridges is rendered
poisonous in this way, and that fatal results have followed its use.
The flowers are abundant, white tinged with, red and disposed in
splendid corymbs.
Part used.
Form
two
The mature leaves.
of alcohol,
two weeks, and
part in
filtering.
KAOLIN.
PORCELAIN CLAY. SILICATE OF ALUMINIUM.
Si3
When
08
AlK
and other unstratified

mass results, forming a species of
clay. Large deposits of this are found in Devonshire and Cornwall,
England.
It is washed and separated from quartz and mica, the
kaolin imparting a milky appearance to the liquid. This is allowed
granite, porphyry, trachyte, feldspar
rocks disintegrate a
to stand for a time,
This deposit
Form
is
dried
soft, friable
when
first
the clay held in suspension
in the air, afterwards
May
by
is
precipitated.
artificial heat.
tions after the fifth decimal.
KARAKA.
KOPl TREE OF
NEW
ZEALAND.
Part used. The fresh seeds.
Form
of preparatx)n. Trituration.
Tincture.
KATIPO.
A VENOMOUS SPIDER OF NEW ZEALAND AND CALIFORNIA.
KEROSOLENE.
One
of the lighter (possibly the lightest) products obtained by disfrom the crude oil obtained from albatite from Nova Scotia,
tillation
nearly or quite identical with gasolene.
KINO AUSTRALIENSE.
KINO.
This
is
the product of a tree growing in Senegal, East India and
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167
received only from the last two countries. The

pterocarpus raarsupium affords it in India, and is a tree growing to a
great height on the mountains of the Malabar coast, while that from
Australia is derived from a species of eucalyptus, also a lofty tree.
In each of these countries incisions are made in the bark of the trees,
and the exuding gum allowed to harden in the open air, in the form of
tears and masses. Kino is a brittle, ruby red or reddish-brown subAustralia, but
is
stance easily pulverizable to a reddish powder, and has a bitter, with

a sweetish after- taste.
Form
made by
dissolving one part in five
of dilute alcohol.
KOOSSO.
KOUSSO.
This is a tree about twenty/ feet high, growing in Abyssinia at an
elevation of six or seven thousand feet above tide water. The leaves
are crowded near the terminal portion of the branches and are quite
large.
When these fall, a circular scar remains upon the branches, at
the place where they have been attached. The flowers are small,
greenish, and tinged with purple.
Part used. The dried blossoms.
Form
KREOSOTUM.
CREASOTE.
C8 HlO 02
In the distillation of pyroligneous acid the distillate separates into
three layers, a lower oily, a middle watery, and an upper oily. The
lowest of these contains creasote. By repeated distillation of this, a
liquid is obtained free from all other matters, and to which the name
of kreasote is applied. It is a colorless, oily, volatile liquid, having a
caustic, burning taste, and a penetrating odor, like that of smoked
meat. It is apt to contain picamar and capnomor, not being entirely
freed from these, and is sometimes adulterated with carbolic acid and
some
of the fixed oils. It
is
soluble in alcohol, ether
and
glacial acetic
acid, but only slightly in water.
Form
of preparation. Dilution with alcohol in the proportion of
one to nine.
LABURNUM.
CYTISUS LABURNUM.
LABURNUM.
native of the higher mountains of Europe, this tree has been

introduced into every civilized country. It is about fifteen feet high.
Active principles. Cytisus.
Laburnin.
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Form
of preparation. Tincture, by macerating in five parts of
dilute alcohol,
two weeks, and
filtering.
LACEKTA
AGILIS.
THE GREEN EUROPEAN LIZARD.

Part used. The entire dried animal.
Form
LACHESIS TRIGONOCErHALUS.
THE LANCE-HEADED VIPER OF BRAZIL.
Part used. The venom.
Form
of preparation.Dilutions in alcohol.
LACHNANTHES TINCTORIA.
WEED. RED ROOT.
sandy swamps along the coast, from New
SPIRIT
An herb growing in
Jersey
o Florida. It is about twenty inches high, with rush-like leaves clusered at the base, and nearly as high as the stem. The hairy stem
sparingly furnished with leaves, is crowned with a number of aggregated, dingy, yellow flowers, covered externally with an abundance of
white wool. The root is red, fibrous and perennial, and is used for
dyeing.
Form of preparation. Tincture made by macerating one

wo of alcohol, two weeks, and filtering.
part in
LACTICUM ACIDUM.
LACTIC ACID.
C3
He Os
This acid is present in souring milk, gastric juice, muscular fluid,

he juices of beets, turnips, carrots, sauerkraut, the sour liquor of the
starch maker, etc. It has been found in the urine of those poisoned
with phosphorus, and occurs in the perspiration of rheumatic fever.
When existing in the muscular tissue it is termed paralactic acid.
Lactic acid is a colorless or pale, urine colored liquid, with little or no
odor, but having an intensely sour taste. Albumen is coagulated and
phosphate of lime is dissolved by it. Soluble in water or alcohol.
Form
of
Solution of equal parts by
weight in alcohol for tincture.
LACTUCA VIROSA.
STRONG-SCENTED LETTUCE.
Grows in England and the south
POISONOUS LETTUCE.
of Europe, preferring a chalky
hillsides, ramparts, etc. It is also
four feet high with prickly leaves and
acrid, milky juice, exhales a disagreeable
and possesses a bitter taste. The fruit is
soil,
Active principles. Lactucin.

Part used.
Form
The
of preparation.
two weeks
It rises
two
to
yellow flowers, contains an

odor,
somewhat
like
opium,
black.
Lactucone.
entire plant.
Tincture made by expressing the juice, then

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cultivated.
169
filtering
By macerating
in five parts of alco-
expressing residue and adding juice to
Filter.
filtrate.
LAMIUM ALBUM.
DEAD NETTLE.
Part used. The fresh leaves and blossoms; two-thirds of the
former, one-third of the latter.
Form
made by expressing
the juice,
LAPIS ALBUS.
SILICO-FLOURIDE OF CALCIUM.
This
is
a kind of gneiss rock that
is
Tauern mountains in Germany, and
found
is
in large quantities in the
also held in suspension in gas-
tien mineral water.
Form
May
LAPPA MAJOK.
BURDOCK.
A well known weed often seen in fields, by the roadside, etc., in
the
and western states. It is large, coarse, and has an

unpleasant odor. The leaves are large and heart shaped, with wavy
edges. The flowers are of a delicate pink color, and are disposed at
the summit of the plant. The seeds terminate in a hook-like process.
Not analyzed.
eastern, middle
Form
hol one
of preparation. Tincture, by macerating in five parts of alco-
week
filter.
LATHYRUS SATIVUS.
CHICK PEA.
A native of southern
Europe.
Part used. The peas.
Form
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LAUROCERASUS.
PRUNUS LAUROCERASUS. CHERRY LAUREL.
An
evergreen tree, a native of Persia and Asia minor, but now

domesticated in nearly all parts of southern Europe.
It is from
tifteen to twenty feet high, and covered with a smooth, blackish bark.
The leaves are from five to seven inches long, leathery, glossy and
bitter.
The flowers, arranged in clusters, are white, tinged with
yellow, and have a strong odor. The fruit is purplish black, and about
the size of a cherry.
Active principles.Hydrocyanic acid.
Laurel
oil,
(no amygdalin.)
Part used. The young leaves.

I
orm
of preparation. Tincture, dark green color, taste
of bitter
almonds
alcohol one
week
made by macerating
filter.
in
and smell
two parts of very
dilute
A watery infusion yields hydrocyanic acid
by
distillation.
LEDUM PALUSTRE.
MARSH TEA. WILD ROSEMARY.
A shrub
two to three feet high, growing in marshy, swampy localinorth of Europe, Labrador, and in this country from Pennsylvania northward to Greenland. The leaves are covered on their
under surface with a rust-colored down, emit a balsamic odor, and
have an aromatic, bitter, camphorous taste. The flowers are numerties in the
ous, clustered, white, though sometimes rosy.

volatile
It yields
an active
oil.
The leaves and flowers in June.

Form of preparation. Tincture, dark brown color, strong taste and
odor of turpentine made by macerating one part in five of alcohol,
Part used. The entire dried herb.
two weeks.
Filter.
LEPIDIUM BONARIENSE.
a Brazilian plant growing abundantly in the neighborhood
and upon stony soil. It rises by numerous erect stems
to a height of twenty or thirty inches, and blossoms in September.
This
is
of Rio Janeiro,
Part used. The fresh leaves.
Form
made by expressing the juice, then

Trituration made from fresh leaves.
LEPTANDRA VIRGINICA.
QUITEL.
An
HINA. CULVER'S ROOT. CULVER'S PHYSIC. BLACK ROOT.
herbaceous plant growing in all parts of this country, and generally in limestone regions. It attains a height of three or four feet, is
furnished with whorled leaves and crowned with a long spike of white
HOMCEOPATHIC
flowers.
The
perennial root
PHARMACOPCEIA.
171
horizontal, six to twelve inches long,
is
and the thickness of a finger, woody, blackish-brown, with many

fibres, and should be gathered not earlier than the autumn of the
second year.
An
Active principles. Glucosides.
impure
resinoid.
Leptandrin.
Part used. The biennial root.
Form
two of
dilute alcohol
two weeks
part in
filter.
LILIUM TIGRINUM.
TIGER LILY.
bulbous plant native of Mexico, Peru, China and Japan, and cultivated in this country as an exotic. It is above two feet in height,
with large leaves, sometimes a foot long. The flowers are large,
orange-colored, and dotted with black, crimson and purple.
Part used. The stalks, leaves and flowers.
Form
made by
expressing the juice, then
adding an equal part of alcohol. Also by macerating in two parts of

alcohol,
if
one week.
fresh, (five, it dry),
Filter.
LIMULUS CYCLOPS.
KINGCRAB.
Part used. The dried blood.
Form
LINARIA VULGARIS.
SNAPDRAGON. TOAD-FLAX.
This shrub is quite common from the New England states to Kentucky, both in a wild and cultivated state. It is one or two feet in
height, bushy and leafy, and bears some resemblance to flax. The
flowers are large, yellow, crowded on a terminal spike, and quite
numerous.
Part used.The whole plant.
Form
o preparation. Tincture,
two of alcohol two weeks, and
part in
filtering.
LINUM CATHARTICUM.
PURGING FLAX.
Form
filtering.
part in
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LITHIUM CARBONICUM.
LITHIUM CARBONATE.
CARBONATE OF LITHIA.
Li CO3.
A rare substance found in minute proportions
in the minerals petaamblygonite, spondumene, lepidolite, mica, a variety of tourmaline, certain mineral springs in Europe and the Gettysburg spring
in Pennsylvania. To minerals containing LiCOs add sulphuric acid
until effervescence ceases. Boil. To the filtered solution add onefourth its volume of dilute carbonate of ammonia. Set aside twentyfour hours filter. Add to filtrate equal part of solution of carbonate
of ammonia, and filter. Precipitate is carbonate of lithia. It is
white, granular or crystalline, and the lightest solid known, its specific
gravity being only 0.59. It is but slightly soluble in water, insoluble
in alcohol, and gives a carmine color when burnt in the flame of
lite,
alcohol.
Form
May be transferred
to dilutions
LOBELIA CARDmALIS.
CARDINAL FLOWER.
This species of the lobeliacese is a tall plant, growing in meadows,
and along the borders of streams from Canada to the Carolinas, varying from two to four feet high, and bearing dark, scarlet flowers.
Part used. The whole plant m flower.
Form of preparation. Tincture made by macerating one part in
two of dilute alcohol one week filter.
;
LOBELIA INFLATA.
INDIAN TOBACCO.
An indigenous plant, usually about a foot high, and growing in all

parts of the United States. The stem is angular, branched and hairy,
and the leaves are also hairy. The flowers are small, pale blue and
abundant. The fruit is an oval, two
number of small brown seeds.
Active principles. Lobelic acid.
celled capsule containing a
Lobelina.
Form
two
of dilute alcohol one week,
and
part in
filtering.
LOBELIA SYPHILITICA.
GREAT BLUE LOBELIA.
Also indigenous and quite common in the western states. It has a
downy stem, is about three feet high, bears a blue or purplish flower,
and generally resembles the other varieties of lobelia.
HOMCEOPATHIC PHARMACOPCETA.
173
Part used. The plant.
Form
'
part in
filtering.
LOLIUM TEMULENTUM.
POISONOUS DARNEL GRASS.
A grass met with chiefly in the middle states, also in
Europe, where
grows two feet high, and very often among wheat and other grains.
The seeds are sweetish, and often infested by an ergot, upon which
their poisonous properties are said to depend, and that when sound
grains are used, no effect is perceived.?
it
Fart used. The ripe seeds gathered in August.
Form
macerating in
brown-yellow
five parts of alcohol
May
be
made
two weeks, and
into tincture by
filtering
greenish,
color, inodorous.
LONICEEA XYLOSTEUM.
FLY HONEYSUCKLE.
A branching
situations
shrub three or four feet high, mostly found in wooded
from Maine
flowers occur
to Ohio.
The
leaves are thin
m pairs, of a pale straw color.
The
and
long, the
fruit is paired, oval,
and many seeded.

red,
Form
two of alcohol one week, and
part in
filtering.
LUPULUS.
HUMULUS LUPULUS.
HOPS.
This is a flexible vine, twining in a spiral direction from left to right

upon natural objects, or upon ipoles set for the purpose. The leaves
are rough from the many minute prickles with which they are studThe flowers are numerous and yellowish-white or pale green,
according as they are male or female. The fruit is an oval, membranous cone composed of many scales, each supplied at the base
with two small seeds surrounded by a yellowish, granular powder.
ded.
This latter
is
lupuline and
Active principle.
is
obtained by threshing and sifting.
Lupulin {not the
lupuline).
Part used. Cones, gathered in August and September.
Form
one part in
red color, and bitter taste.
Tincture
one week.
made by macerating
Dark brownish-
Filter.
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LYCOPERSICUM.
SOLANTJM LYCOPERSICUM.
TOMATO.
LOVE APPLE.
This is the garden esculent with which every one is familiar. The
stem is yielding, branching, and covered with soft hairs the leaves
are jagged and the flowers are greenish-yellow.
The fruit is large,
deeply furrowed, red when ripe, and contains a great number of seeds.
;
Active principle. Solanin
(V).
Part used. The stems.
Form
Tincture
of preparation.
two parts of
made by macerating
the stems in
Filter.
LYCOPODIUM CLAVATUM.
CLUB MOSS, wolf's FOOT^
A trailing, evergreen
wooded
localities.
lanceolate, ribless
upwards.
The
plant, native in this country, Europe, Great
and Russia, and usually found
Britain, Finland
in stony, hilly or
It is several feet long, giving off
leaves, terminating
flowers are arranged
in
numerous,
upon terminal
The pods contain a
linear-
capillary bristles, turned
spikes, either
yellow dust or powder,

which is composed of cells containing an oily fluid. It is frequently
adulterated with the pollen of pi'ies, rirs, etc., and talc or other powders, colored by gamboge. These latter are detected by throwing the
powder into water, when the foreign matters sink to the bottom. The
pollen of pines or firs may be detected by rubbing between the fingers,
when a resinous odor will be developed.
single or paired.
fine,
Part used. The pollen, to be gathered in August and September.
Form
of preparation. Trituration. Tincture by macerating in five
parts of alcohol,
two weeks
filtering.
LYCOPUS VIRGINICUS.
BUGLE WEED.
Indigenous to the United States, where it grows in moist, shaded
bush about eighteen feet high, with a terebinthinate
odor and a nauseous, bitter taste. The leaves are rough, purplish, and
have a number of glandular dots on the under surface. The flowers
are white, very small, and in dense, axillary whorls.
situations. It is a
Part used. The entire fresh plant.
Form
two of
of preparation.
alcohol,
Tincture
two weeks
part in
filter.
MAGNESIUM CARBONICUM.
MAGNESIA ALBA. C \RBONATE OF MAGNESIA.
MgCOS 3H2 O
This exists in crystalline form imbedded in talc
slate,
and as a white
HOMCEOPATHIC
PHARMACOPCElA.
175
earthy mass. It is prepared by decomposing a saturated solution of

sulphate of magnesium with carbonate of sodium, and the whole
heated to the boiling point, stirring it frequently. Carbonate of magnesia is precipitated from the solution, and after careful washing is
either calcined at red heat or forcibly compressed in wooden moulds,
by which the magnesia is made to assume the form of a cube. It is
white, soft to the touch, light or heavy, according to the strength of
the solution used in preparing it, has little or no taste, no smell, and
only slightly soluble in water.
Form
MAGNESIUM MURIATICUM.
CHLORIDE OF MAGNESIA.
MgCh
Found in saline springs and the waters of the ocean, and artificially
prepared by neutralizing two equal parts of hydrochloric acid, one
with magnesia and the other with carbonate of ammonia, and then
mixing both solutions. The mixture is then evaporated to dryness,
and the residue exposed to a red heat in a porcelain crucible. Sal
ammoniac is driven off and muriate of magnesia remains as a molten
mass. By pouring this out upon a stone or marble surface, a hard,
white mass soon forms. It is a white, deliquescent salt, has a bitter
taste,
and
Form
is
soluble in alcohol or water.
of preparation. Saturated solution in
tincture.
Must be kept
dilute
alcohol
for
in well stoppered bottles.
MAG]NESIUM PHOSPHORICUM.
PHOSPHATE OF MAGNESIA.
PO4 Mg 'H7H2 O
forming in small crystals when solutions
of phosphate of
soda and sulphate of magnesia are mixed and allowed to stand
twenty-four to thirty-six hours. Filter. It exists in the cereals.
salt
Form
May
tions after third decimal.
MAGNESIUM SULPHURICUM:
This
salt
EPSOM SALTS. SULPHATE OF MAGNESIA.

MgO,S03 7H2 O
was originally obtained by evaporating the water of saline
Epsom in England. It is also met with in the crystalline
springs at
state in Switzerland, and in this country a deposit exists in a cave
near Corydon, Indiana. It is a frequent ingredient of mineral springs,
and is one of the constituents of sea water.
number of sources
furnish it for commerce, the principal ones being the different salt
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works and the mineral magnesite.
Sulphate of magnesia is a colortransparent, odorless, efflorescent, soluble, crystalline salt, having a bitter, nauseous taste. For artificial preparation
To chloride of magnesia add dilute sulphuric acid and evaporate slowly to
crystallization. Decant
wash crystals quickly in the jar or dish, and
less,
dry with slight heat.
Form
Satin-ated solution in water
for tincture.
MAGNOLIA GLAUCA.
MAGNOLIA. BAY TREE.
Although met with in some of the northern
states, it islittb
more
than a shrub, but in the southern states, particularly on wêt, pine

lands is where it reaches its greatest perfection. It is then a tree
about thirty feet high, having a rich foliage, yellowish-green on tlie
upper surface and pale green on the under. The flowers are large,
solitary and cream colored, giving out a very fragrant odor. The fruit
is about an inch long, and composed of cells, each of which contains
a single scarlet seed. When fully ripe, the cells rupture and the seed
partly escapes, being still connected by a fine thread with the parent
cell. In South Carolina the tree is considered a preventive of malaria.
Form
of
The dried
The flowers.
preparation. Tincture made by macerating one
Part used.
bark.
the bark in five of alcohol, two weeks, and filtering.
by macerating one part of the flowers in

weeks, and
part of
Tincture made
five parts of alcohol,
two
filtering.
MANCINELLA.
HIPPOMANES MANCINELLA.
broadly branching tree, growing in Brazil, from twelve to fifteen

feet high. The wood is white and covered with a grayish bark. The
fruit round, pulpy and about five or six inches in diameter. The tree
is considered very poisonous.
Parts used.
Form
The
fruit, leaves
of preparation.
of alcohol,
and bark.
Tincture made
two weeks, and
filtering.
by macerating in two parts
Trituration
made from
fresh
leaves.
MADKAGORA OFFICINARUM.
MANDRAKE.
European plant, having a root considered as resembling the

human form, and about which have clustered a number of superstitions. The name of mandrake is also applied to the podophyllum
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peltatum of this country from the same fancied resemblance.

said to have been used by the ancients to produce ansesthesia.
It is
Part used. The root
Form
made by expressing
the juice, then
MANGANESIUM ACETICUM.
ACETATE OF MANGANESE.
Mn, 2C3H3 02,4H3
Prepared by saturating acetic acid with carbonate of manganese
and evaporating,
to crystallize.
It is in the
rhomboidal crystals, having an astringent
Form
form of
taste.
light, pinkish,
Soluble in water.
Saturated solution in dilute
alcohol for tincture.
MANGANESIUM CARBONICUM.
CARBONATE OF MANGANESE.
MnCOs
This is obtained by adding carbonate of ammonium to bichloride of
manganese. By a double decomposition, carbonate of manganese is
formed and precipitated, and the chloride of the alkali remains in
solution. The precipitate is washed, dried and bottled. It is also
procured by precipitation from a solution of sulphate of manganese
by the addition of carbonate of sodium. It is a white or buff colored
salt, unstable and insoluble, either in water or alcohol.
Form
May
be trinsferred to dilu-
tions after the sixth decimal.
MANGANESIUM MURIATICUM.
MANGANESE BICHLORIDE. CHLORIDE OF MANGANESE.
MnCl2
The
liquid remaining in the retort after the manufacture of chlorine
yields this substance.
chlorides of
and heated
This
manganese and
to dull redness.
fluid,
mainly composed of the mixed
iron, is filtered, evaporated to dryness
By
this
time the chloride of iron
is
either
changed into the insoluble sesquioxide, the manganese

remaining unchanged. The resulting or grayish powder is then
treated with water to dissolve the chloride of manganese, the solution
filtered to separate it from oxide of iron, and then evaporated to crystallization. The crystals are tubular, pinkish, and soluble in water
and alcohol. Alcohol reacts in solution and forms a new compound.
volatilized or
salt
Form
for tincture.
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MANGANESIUM OXIDUM NATIVUM.

PEROXIDE OF MANGANESE. BLACK OXIDE OF MANGANESE. DEUTOXIDE OF MANGANESE.
Mn02. (Mn2 03,Mn03 =manffaiitite of manganese).
This, the most common ore of manganese and known as pyrolusite,
is most abundant in Bohemia, Saxony, Great Britain and Nova Scotia.
In this country an inferior quality exists in Vermont. It is met with
PYROLUSITE.
sometimes in needle-like
crystals,
commonly is a blackish, earthy

form in some animal fluids and
sometimes
deposit.
in metallic
masses, but
It is present in the metallic
tissues. It
may
be prepared
artificially
by slowly calcining the nitrate of manganese.
Form
May
MATI.
PARAGUAY TEA.
This is a small, shrub-like tree, growing in various parts of SouthAmerica, and quite abundant along the streams of Paraguay, where
The
leaves contain the same principles as tea"

and coffee, and their collection is made for the beverage they afford.
Large parties are formed each year to gather the leaves and prepare
them for consumption, which is done by sun drying and powdering
it is
also cultivated.
They have an aromatic odor and a bitter taste.

five of alcohol, two weeks
filter.
them.
part in
MECONINUM.
MECONINE,
C10H10O4
When opianic acid is heated with a solution of potash, two substances are produced, viz., a crystalline acid, called hemipinic acid, and
a neutral, volatile substance, also crystallizable, known as meconine.
Form
MEDUSA.
THE SEA NETTLE.
Part used. The entire living animal, taken in summer, and cut in
pieces.
Form
of preparation.
Tincture
five of alcohol.
MELASTOMA AOKERMANI.
part in
HOMCEOFATHIC
Form
two
PHARMACOFCEIA.
of alcohol, one
week
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part in
filter.
MELILOTUS OFFICINALIS.
MELILOT.
"1
Bears some resemblance to the Tonka bean.

Form
five of alcohol,
two weeks
part in
filter.
MENISPEEMUM OAKADENSE.
MOONSEED. GOLD THREAD.
An indigenous, climbing plant, growing in nearly all parts of the

United States. The root or rhizome is long, yellow, and very bitter,
and gives rise to a stem ranging from eight to twelve feet high. The
fiowers occur in clusters, are small and yellow. The fruit is round,
black, about four lines in diameter, and resembles grapes. The seeds
are crescentic in shape, and from this the plant derives its name.
Menispermin.
Active principles. Berberina.

Form
of preparation.
of strong alcohol
Tincture,
filter
made by maceratmg
in five parts
express residue and add extract to
filtrate
filter.
MENTHA
PIPERITA.
PEPPERMINT.
A plant of European
extraction, growing in wet or moist situations.

long and creeping, sending up a purplish, hairy, channelled
stem about two feet high. The flowers are small and purple. The
herb has a penetrating, rather pleasant odor, and a pungent, somewhat camphorous taste, causing a cool sensation in the mouth when
air is inhaled through it.
The
root
is
(Sebacin, camphin).
Active principles. Menthene.

Piperidin (piperylamin).
Piperic acid.
Oil of peppermint.
Piperin.
Form
two
of dilute alcohol
two weeks
part in
filter.
MENTHA PULEGIUM.
PENNYROYAL.
The pennyroyal in Europe is a very different plant from that growing in this country, and belongs to a separate genus. The European
plant only, is oflicinal. It possesses a volatile oil.
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Form
of preparation, Tincture.
MENYANTHES TRIFOLIATA.
BUCK BEAN. MARSH TREFOIL.
This plant is found both in Europe and this country in swamps, the
margin of ponds, or where the surface is overflowed at times. It is
chiefly foun.d in this country from the 8t. Lawrence river on the north
to the Potomac on the south. It has a matted, branching, dark colored
root, descending deep into the soil, and about an inch thick. The
leaves are bitter, especially in the autumn. The flower stalk is about
ten inches high, rises above the leaves, and bears a cone-shaped
cluster of rose-colored flowers. The fruit is a capsule separable in two
halves and contains a number of seeds.
Active principles. Menyanthin, (of Tromsdorf ), an isomeron of inu-
and datiscin
Part used.- -The whole plant in flower autumn.
Form of preparation. Tincture, dark greenish- brown, very bitter
made by expressing the juice from the plant, then adding an equal
lin,
dahlin, alantin, elecampin, helenine
part of alcohol.
weeks, and
By macerating
filtering
in five parts of dilute alcohol
express residue, add extract to
filtrate.
two
Filter.
MEPHITES PUTORIUS.
THE SKUNK.
Part used. The secretion.
Form
of preparation. Solution in water.
MERCCTRIALIS PERENKIS.
dog's mercury.
Part used. The fresh plant, root and
in
all,
gathered
when
flowering
May.
Form
of preparation. Tincture, reddish
brown
two
expressing the juice from the plant, then adding
color
made by
thirds its weight
of alcohol.
MERCURIUS ACETICUS.
SUBACETATE OF MERCURY.
ACETATE OF MERCURY (MerCUrOMS

acetate).
Hg3 O, C4 Bs O2.
Small, scaly crystals, nearly insoluble in cold water. Insoluble
Normal acetate (mercuric acetate) is the
Unstable.
in alcohol.
Formed by dissolving mercuric oxide in
properties.
of
these
reverse
and evaporating.
filtering
saturation,
acetic acid to
Form
of preparation.Trituration.
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MERCURIUS BROMIDUM.
BROMIDE OF MERCURY.
'
HgBr.
This
formed by the addition of bromide of potassium to nitrate of

protoxide of mercury, the salt falling as a white, curdy precipitate.
Filter, wash and dry.
is
Form
May
MERCURIUS CORROSIVUS.
MERCURIC CHLORIDE.
CORROSIVE SUBLIMATE.
BICHLORIDE OF
MERCURY.
Hg"Cl3.
When mercury
is boiled with sulphuric acid to dryness upon a sandmass remains. This is triturated when cold with chloride of sodium, and then subjected to sublimation. The sublimate is
then fit for use, and is known as corrosive sublimate. It is in the
form of crystals or white, crystalline masses, having an acid, metallic
bath, a white
taste.
Form
Saturated solution
m distilled
water for tincture.
MERCURIUS CYANIDUS.
MERCURIUS CYANATUS.
CYANIDE OF MERCURV".
MERCURY.
Hg
BICYANIDE OF
(CN)3
To
obtain this salt, ferrocyanide of potassium and sulphate of mercury are boiled together for fifteen minutes, and filtered while hot to
separate the iron. On cooling, the solution deposits crystals of cyanide of mercury which are white, opaque, odorless, and have a nauseous, metallic taste.
Form
Saturated solution in diluted
MERCURIUS DULCIS.
MERCUROUS CHLORIDE. CALOMEL. MILD CHLORIDE OF MERCURY.
Hg"2
Cl2.
Is made by boiling quicksilver with sulphuric acid and water on a

sand-bath, until a dry mass is left. This when cold is rubbed with
cliloride of sodium and quicksilver, equal in quantity to that first
employed. When the globules of the last portion of the metal have
disappeared, the entire mixture is subjected to sublimation. The
sublimate is then washed to dissolve out any remaining chloride until
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the wasliings give no precipitate with aqua ammonia. The salt is then
This preparation differs from the corrosive chloride in that it
contains but one equivalence of chlorine. It is a pale buff or whitecolored substance, having neither taste or smell, blackens on exposure
to light, and is insoluble in water.
dried.
Form
May
be transferred to dilution.
MERCUKIUS PROTOIDIDUS.
GREEN IODIDE OF MERCURY. IODIDE OF MERCURY. MERCURIUS
lODATUS VIRIDIS.
Hgl.
This is procured by adding a solution of iodide of potassium, to mercurous nitrate, the protoiodide of the metal being precipitated as a
greenish-yellow powder. It is also obtained by triturating a mixture
of iodine and mercury in a mortar, with absolute alcohol, until a paste
is formed.
It is then placed on a filter, washed with dilute alcohol,
and dried in a dark room.
Form
May
MERCURIUS BINIODIDUS.
RED IODIDE OF MERCURY. BINIODIDE OF ^lEKCUKY. 3IERCURIUS
lODATUS RUBER.
Hgl2.
precipitated where corrosive chloride of
mercury is dissolved in distilled water, and mixed with an aqueous
double decomposition takes place
solution of iodide of potassium.
of
potassium
and
the mercujic salt are formed.
by which chloride
The precipitate is then washed and dried. It is at first yellow, then
scarlet red in color, volatilizes by heat, is insoluble in water and alco-
Biniodide of mercury
is
hol,
but soluble in ether.
Form
May
MERCURIUS METIIYLENUS.
METHIDE OF MERCURY.
C2 H3 Hg.
This is formed by the action of corrosive sublimate upon ethide of
and also by the action of sodium amalgam upon iodide of ethyl
when ether is present. It is a transparent liquid, and burns with a
smoky light, giving off at the same time a mercurial vapor.
zinc,
Form
MERCURIUS NITRITUS.
NORMAL NITRATE OF MERCURY
Hg"(N03
To
)2
(neutral).
H-2Aq.
red oxide of mercury, add nitric acid in excess.
Evaporate to a
HOMCEOPATHIC
PHARMACOPCEIA.
183
syrup, and enclose with lime over a jar. The lime abstracts moisand the nitrate of mercury precipitates
ture,
Form
of preparation. Saturated solution in water for tincture
MERCURIUS PRECIPITATUS ALBUS.

DIMERCUKAMMONIUM CHLORIDE.
WHITE PRECIPITATE. AMMONIO-
CHLORIDE OF MERCURY.
HgCl+HgNHg.
Corrosive sublimate is dissolved in distilled water to which aqua
The precipitate thrown down is the ammoniois added.
chloride of mercury, which is then heated, washed and dried. It is an
opaque, white powder, insoluble in water, alcohol, or ether ; has an
earthy metallic taste, and is volatilized by heat.
ammonia
Form
of preparation.
Trituration.
May
be transferred to dilutioi*
MERCURIUS PRECIPITATUS RUBER

RED PRECIPITATE. MONOXIDE OF MERCUHY.
HgO.
manufactured in a number of ways. By dissolving
This is
metallic
mercury in nitric acid and water, evaporating to dryness, triturating
and heating in a shallow vessel until red fumes are no longer given
off.
Also by subjecting quicksilver to a temperature of 600F. for
several weeks this is the red precipitate of the older chemists. It is
of an orange red or brilliant red color, has a shining, scaly appearance
and an acrid taste. Only slightly soluble in water and insoluble in
alcohol and ether. It is sometimes adulterated with red lead, brickdust, etc., but these may be detected by throwing a small quantity
upon red hot iron by which the mercury will be volatilized, any residue is therefore an addition.
;
Form
of preparation. Trituration,
May be
MERCURIUS SOLUBILIS HAHNEMANNIENSIS.

HAHNEMANN'S SOLUBLE 3IERCURY.
This indefinite compound is the nitrate of mercurows ammonium
and dinoxide of mercury, (sometimes called ammonio-subnitrate of
mercury). It is one of the ammonio-mercurials whose generic name
is now mercurosammonium.
It is a velvety black powder, readily
prepared without the tedious operations of an earlier day. Add slight
excess of ammonia to mercurows nitrate, wâshing and drying precipitate. As it is a mixture of two radicals its formulae differ. Insoluble in water. Mercurous nitrate may be prepared by slowly dissolving
quicksilver in cold nitric acid, crystallizing, washing on filter with
alcohol.
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Form
May
MERCURIUS SULPHIDUM SULPHURATUS.

BLACK SULPHURET OF MERCURY. SULPHIDE OF MERCURY. ETHlOPS MINERAL.
HgS+S.
Formed by triturating together equal parts of mercury and sulphur
until the metallic lustre of the quicksilver disappears.
It is
a heavy,
insoluble, tasteless powder.
Form
May
after fifth decimal.
MERCURIUS SULPHOCYANIDUM.
SULPHOCYANIDE OF MERCURY.
CyHg2 S2.
Form
of preparation. Saturated solution in alcohol for tincture,-
Trituration.
MERCURIUS SULPHURICUS FLAVUS.

YELLOW SULPHATE OF MERCURY. TURPETH MINERAL.
SO4 3HgO.
When this salt is desired sulphuric acid and mercury are boiled
together upon a sand bath until a dry, white mass is left. It is then
thrown into boiling water to remove the sulphate and afterward
washed and dried. It is then a yellow powder having a somewhat
acrid taste.
Form
of preparation.
Trituration.
May
MERCURIUS VIVUS.
QUICKSILVER.
Hg.
This rarely exists in a metallic
The most important

and
is
mined
state,
but almost entirely in the ore.
of these is the bisulphuret, or native cinnabar,
in Spain, Italy, Austria, China,
named
Mexico, Peru and Cali-
furnishing the greater amount of all

produced. The ore is roasted in retorts constructed for the purpose,
and the metal condensed in suitable receivers. It is shipped in
wrought iron bottles each of which contains about seventy-five pounds
of the metal. Quicksilver is a very mobile fluid having a silvery white
color and brilliant lustre, without taste or smell, boiling at 662F., and
freezing at 39F. below zero.
fornia, the
first
and
last
rHARMACOPCEIA.
H03I(EOPATHIC
Form
ot preparation. Trituration.
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The product
of trituration
is
the gray oxide, the saccharate, and even other obscure compounds of
mercury.
Quicksilver globules exist in the lower attenuations.
METHYLENUM BICHLORIDUM.
DICHLOKOM ETHANE. BICHLORIDE OF METHYLENE. METHENE
CHLORIDE. (PERCHLORIDE OF FORMYL.)
The base of this substance is methene. It is formed by the action
of sunlight on methyl chloride.
Form of administration. By
Formerly used for anaesthesia.

inhalation.
METHYL ETHEK.
METHOXYL METHANE.
METHYL OXIDE.
METHYL-ETHYL ETHEK.
C3 He O.
This is a gaseous substance, prepared by mixing wood spirit, with

concentrated sulphuric acid, and heating the mixture in a flask. The
liquid blackens as the heat continues, and a gas is extricated, which
is conducted through a solution of caustic potash, and collected over
a mercurial trough. It dissolves in water, which takes up about
thirty-three times its own volume, to which it communicates its taste
and etherial odor. The gas burns with a pale flame.
Form
of preparation.
Saturated
Collect over close alcohol trough for saturation.
MEZEREUM.
DAPHNE MEZEREUM. SPURGE
OLIVE.
This is a shrub about three or four feet high, and one of the earliest
flowering plants. It is native to the hilly woods of northern Europe,
Great Britain and Russian Asia, and is occasionally seen in gardens in
this country. The leaves disposed at the ends of the branches are
smooth and about tv/o inches long. Before these are fully out the
flowers make their appearance they are red or rose-colored in one
variety, white in another, occur in clusters and exhale a delightful
odor. The fruit is an oval, yellow or scarlet berry, containing a single
round seed. The bark is tough, pliable, and flbrous, easily separated
from the wood, and has a sweetish, with an acrid after taste.
;
Active principles. Daphnetin. Volatile
oil
and
resin.
(Daphnin).
Part used. The bark gathered before flowering.
Form
of preparation.
two parts of
Tincture, made
dilute alcohol for
two weeks, and
Altering.
Yellow-
brownish, burning taste, like cantharides.
MlxVlOSA
HUMILIS.
SENSITIVE PL VNT OF SOUTH AMERICA.

This variety of the sensitive plant
is
peculiar to
and grows upon the
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Rio Janeiro. The stem is yielding, woody, and

covered with prickles. The flowers are violet in color and composed
prairies surroundiug
of small, silky tufts.
Form
of preparation.
Tincture,
two of dilute alcohol, two weeks, and
part in
filtering.
MITCHELLA EEPENS.
CHECKER BERRY. PARTRIDGE BERRY.
An
indigenous, trailing, evergreen plant, named after Dr. John

Mitchell, and often seen creeping about the roots of trees, among
bushes, etc., in dry woods* and among hemlock timber. The leaves
are heart-shaped, dark green, and marked with whitish lines. The
flowers are white or reddish, and very fragrant. The fruit is a scarlet
berry, pleasant to the taste, contain a number of stony seeds, and
remain on the stem all winter. It should not be confounded with the
wintergreen on account of a similar common name. Not analyzed
ultimately.
Part used. The recent plant.
Form
two of dilute
alcohol, one week.
part in
Filter.
MOMORDICA BALSAMIS.
BALSAM APPLE.
This climbing plant is a native of the East Indies, but cultivated in
nearly all parts of this country. The stem is slender, and attaches
The
itself to trees or trellis work by means of numerous tendrils.
flowers are large and pale yellow. The fruit is about the size of a
goose egg, pointed at the ends, warty, and of a reddish or orange
When ripe, this becomes detached by a slight touch, and fallcolor.
ing, breaks into a number of pieces, scattering the seeds in all directions.
Part used. The ripe
Form
of preparation.
fruit.
Tincture made by expressing
adding an equal part of alcohol. By macerating in

alcohol,
two weeks
the juice, then
five parts of dilute
filter.
MORPHINUM.
MORPHIA.
MORPHINE.
Cl7Hin>703
Treat infusion of opium with aminonia. Filter. Boil precipitate

Filter. Precipitate is morphia- (2). To infusion of opium
i-'itUr
i/'uss hydrogen sulphide gas
add acetate of lead in exces
in ether.
HOMCEOPATIIIC
Warm
PIIARMAf'OPCEIA.
through
filtrate.
Filter.
Treat with boiling water.
gently.
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Add
excess of ammonia.
Precipitate is morphia.
in the form of small, shining
Filter.
Filter.
Morphia, recrystallized from alcohol, is

without odor, and very bitter. At an ordinary heat
It is somewhat
it becomes white, and melts at a higher temperature.
soluble in alcohol, slightly so in ether, requires one thousand parts of
water to dissolve it, and is inflammable in the air.
crystals, colorless,
Form
MORPHINUM ACETICUM.
ACETATE OF MORPHIA.
C17H19NO3, C2 H4 Oz
This salt of morphia is prepared by mixing morphia with distilled
water, to which acetic acid is added carefully and in small quantities,
until the morphia is neutralized and dissolved. The solution is then
evaporated upon a water bath until it has become of the consistence
of syrup. On cooling it assumes the solid form, and is then dried at
gentle heat and rubbed to powder.
MORPHmUM
MURIATICUM.
CHLORIDE OF MORPHIA.
Suspend mor}>hia
in distilled wâter
and carefully neutralize with
dilute hydrochloric acid, dropping in a slight excess of
Evaporate gently on a water bath, to
Form
the acid.
crystallize.
A saturated solution in alcohol
for tincture.
MORPHINUM SULPHURICUM.
SULPHATE OF MORPHIA.
C17H19NO3 SO3
morphia is mixed with
To form this salt

distilled water, and dilute
sulphuric acid dropped in until reaction is complete, and the salt dissolved. Evaporation upon a water bath is then carried to such a
degree that crystals will be deposited on cooling. The fluid portion is
then drained off and the crystals dried on bibulous paper. These are
small, white, and feathery, and soluble in twice their weight of water.
Form
of preparation.
Trituration.
tincture, about 33 per cent, of the solution
phine.
A little alcohol may
being sulphate of mor-
be added to the solution.
MOSCHUS MOSCHIFERUS.
3IUSK DEER.
This deer ib a native of the mountainous districts of central Asia.

about three feet in length and two in height, and though varying
It is
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somewhat
in color, is generally of an iron gray. The tore legs are

shorter than the hind ones, and the tail is quite short. Two long
tusks in the upper jaw project downwards and serve to dig up the
roots upon which the animal feeds. The musk is present in the male
and is contained in a hairy sac, two or three inches long, situated between the umbilicus and prepuce. It is marked externally
with a groove corresponding to the opening of the prepuce, smooth
and corrugated internally, and contains about half an ounce of the
secretion. It is received in the original sacs, the finest coming from
Thibet and China. It is frequently adulterated.
only,
Form
Tincture
may
be
made with
dilute alcohol 1-20.
MUREX PURPUREA.
A shell fish having a convolute shell striped with
bands of different
Behind the head, and under the overlapping edge of the
mantle, is a thick vein of yellowish-white, cream-like substance which
stains an indelible color, that neither washing, light, time or chemical
agents affect. The Tyrian dye, so famous at one time for the purples
of temples and kings, was made from this substance.
Part used. The inspissated liquid contained in a sac near the head
colors.
or between the heart
Form
and
of preparation.
liver.
Trituration.
MURIATICUM ACIDUM.
HYDROCHLORIC ACID. CHLORHYDRIC ACID. HYDROGEN CHLORIDE.
HCl.
Naturally, this acid
regions,
and
is
found as an ingredient of water in volcanic
also in the water of the ocean in combination with
it is really a strong, aqueous solution

obtained by distilling together chloride of sodium,
and distilled water. The disengaged gas is passed
through wash bottles and collected in a receiver containing a certain
amount of water, which after absorbing a certain proportion of the gas,
becomes the officinal acid. VV^hen pure, it is transparent and colorless,
has a sharp, acid taste, and gives off white, suffocating vapors. In
combination with alcohol, ethers are formed by it. In combination
with metals, the unoxidized metal takes the place of the hydrogen by
sodium.
Artificially prepared,
of the gas, and

sulphuric acid
is
substitution.
Form
of preparation. The acid of the sp. gr. 1.124 is considered a
tincture for dilution, in water only.
MUSA SAPIENTIUM.
THE BANANA.
Part used.
Form
The
fiowers.
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MYGALE AVICULARIA.
BLACK CUBAN SPIDER.
Form
times
made by
its
weight of alcohol.
placing the insect in live
Trituration of the insect with sugar of
milk.
BAYBERRY.
MYRICA CERIFEUA.
AVAX BERRY. WAX MYRTLE.
CANDLEBERRY.
An
indigenous, aromatic shrub, varying in height from two to eight

and growing on dry, sandy soils, along the Atlantic coast, from
Nova Scotia to Florida, and on the shores of the great lakes. The
leaves are oblong and shining, with resinous dots on both sides, and
exhale a fragrant odor when rubbed. The fruit is a round, hard
berry, and coated with a white wax that enters into commerce under
the name of bayberry tallow. The bark of the root is bitter and pungent, somewhat astringen^., with an acrimonious taste remaining.
feet,
Active principles. Cerin
(?).
(Palmitate of myricyl).
Palmitic acid (ethalic, cetylic, olidic acids).
Laurie acid.
Palmetin.
(Laurin).
Part used. The fresh bark.
Form
made by macerating one part in

two of alcohol. Etherial extract contains more wax. Strong decoction of plant may be added to two parts of alcoholic tincture for
specially perfect tincture.
NABULUS ALDUS.
lions' foot,
white LETTUCE.
RATTLESNAKE ROOT.
This plant prefers wooded or shaded situations, and is found from

New England to the Mississippi, and southwârd to the Carolinas.
The stem is purplish, sometimes spotted with the same color, and
from two to four feet high. The radical leaves are deeply lobed, while
the stem leaves are roundish, ovate and obtuse. The flowers are
whitish, and in racemes, and the fruit or pappus is brown.
Form
two of
alcohol,
two weeks
part in
filter.
NABULUS SERPENTAlilA.
lion's foot.
The general appearance
of this plant is that of
purple flowers, and grows in tow, moist
soils.
N. albus, but
it
has
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Form
alcohol,
of preparation. Tincture, by maceration one part in
two weeks
two of
filter.
NAJA TRIPUDIANS.
COBRA DI CAPELLO.
This reptile varies in length from two to six feet, and is chiefly met
with in Hindostan. The neck possesses the peculiarity of dilating to
such an extent as to resemble a hood, whence the popular name.
There is a mark on the neck resembling a pair of spectacles. The
fangs are in front of the superior maxillary, and are channeled on the
posterior surface, the venom sack being alone. The solid teeth behind
the fangs are recurred.
Part used.
Forms
The
virus.
of preparation.
of alcohol
make
the
first
Ten drops
of the poison with ninety drops
decimal.
Trituration
made with sugar
of
milk.
NAFHTHALINUM.
NAPHTHALINE. HYDRIDE OF NAPHTIIYL.
(Kolbe).
A hydrocarbon obtained from the last portion of the distilled product of naphtha. This is allowed to stand, when a whitish crystalline
substance is deposited. It is then sublimed and re-sublimed, and
takes the form of white or colorless crystalline plates. These are soluble in alcohol and ether, insoluble in water, and bum with a smoky
flame.
Form
alcohol,
ture.
(1
to 4) for tincture
Saturated solution in absolute
solution in four parts of ether for tinc-
Solvents must not be mixed.
NARCISSUS POETICUS.
poet's NARCISSUS.
native of the south of Europe, this plant is scarcely a foot high,

bearing a flower the crown of which is marked with circles of crimson, white and yellow.
Part used. The bulbs.
Form
alcohol
of preparation. Tincture by macerating in five parts of dilute
two weeks
filter.
NARCEINUM.
NARCEIN.
C23H29NO9.
This alkaloid
is
obtained from an aqueous extract of opium, and
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PHARMACOPCEIA.
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from an alcoholic solution. It is in the form of white

needle-shaped crystals, dissolves in water and alcohol, but not in
ether. It has a bitter taste
comparatively, of slight importance, and
sometimes entirely wanting in opium. It has been confounded with
crystallized
narcotine.
Form
NARCOTJNUM.
NAKCOTiNE (Opianiu V)
C23H23NO7.
obtained by boiling that drug with dilute
acetic acid, and filtering. Narcotine is then precipitated from the
filtrate, and filtered again by the addition of ammonia, and purified by
dissolving it in hot alcohol, filtering through animal charcoal, and
crystallizing. It is also separated from the precipitated morphine and
narcotine, by the addition of ether to the precipitate as in the morphia
formula, p. 186. It is then in lustrous, white, silky needles soluble in
alcohol and ether, and insoluble in water.
This principle of opium
Form
is
Tincture, by a saturated solu-
tion in absolute alcohol.
(Dissolves in sixty parts of cold, and twelve
of boiling absolute alcohol
R. Brandes).
NATRUM ARSENICUM.
NATRUM ARSENICATUM.
NATRUM ARSENICUM.
ARSENIATE OF
SODIUM. (With arsenic acid).

Nas As04 12H3 O.
Arsenious acid and nitrate of sodium are reduced to fine powder,
intimately mixed and exposed to red heat in a covered crucible until
complete fusion has taken place, after which it is poured upon a stone
slab to solidify. When this has taken place, it is dissolved in boiling
water, filtered and allowed to crystallize as arseniate of sodium. The
arsenious acid becomes arsenic acid at expense of the nitric acid.
Another method is by supersaturating a solution of arsenic acid with
carbonate of sodium, and crystallizing by evaporation. The crystals
of this salt are colorless and transparent, and have a saline taste.
Soluble in four parts of water.
Form
NATRUM ARSENITUM.
ARSENITE OF SODA. ARSENITE OF SODIUM. NATRUM ARSENICOSUM.
(With arsenious
To
acid).
solution of bicarbonate of soda add powdered (glassy) arsenious

acid as long as effervescence takes place. At the close of the effervescence, apply gentle heat. Evaporate to dryness on sand bath. Soluble in water.
Form
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NATRUM BORACICUM.
BORATE OF SODA.
NaB2 O3, IOH3
2(B03
().
mineral occurring native

Peru, Ecquador, China, and some
parts of Europe. It is also found in Thibet and Persia, where the
spontaneous evaporation of certain lakes allow it to crystallize upon
their borders. It is in the form of greasy, crystalline masses, sometimes colorless, sometimes yellowish or greenish.
To fit it for
commerce, the contained soapy matters and foreign salts are removed,
and then is a colorless, crystalline substance, with a sweetish, somewhat
alkaline taste, and it becomes covered with a white powder on exposure to the air. A strong infusion of borax has the property of checking the alcoholic fermentation by destroying the organisms that
constitute the ferment.
Form
for dilution.
Saturated solution compared with
first
decimal
trit-
uration.
NATRUM BROMIDUM.
BROMIDE or SODIUM. SODIUM BROMIDE. NATRUM BROMATUM.
Soluble in alcohol, (dilute),
Form
NaBr.
and water.
NATRUM CARBONICUM.
CARBONATE OF SODIUM.
Nag CO3 IOH2 O.
A large amount of
this salt is produced by the natural evaporation

Natron lakes in Egypt. Another of these lakes is
contained in the territory of Nizam in Hindostan, and several exist
of the waters of the
In Hungary there are deposits of this substance in

the beds of ancient lakes. It is procured in an impure state from the
ashes of seaweeds, and also from the mineral cryolite and common
salt.
Very soluble in water.
in central Africa.
Form
NATRUM lODIDUM,
SODIUM IODIDE.
IODIDE OF SODIUM.
NATRUM lODATUM.
Nal.
By
saturating a solution of caustic soda with iodine and crystallizing, the iodide of sodium is found. It may also be obtained by the
double decomposition of iodide of iron and carbonate of sodium in
solution,
and afterward
crystallized.
HOMCEOPATHIC
Form
PHARMACOPCEIA.
If the
198
second process
is
used,
filter
with cai e
before evaporating.
NATRUM MURIATICUM.
SODIUM CHLORIDE.
MURIATE OF SODA.
CHLORIDE OF SODIUM.
COMMON
SALT.
:N'aCl.
the salt of commerce, and found in great quantities in all

parts of the world. It exists in large proportions in sea water, salt
lakes and salt springs, and occurs in enormous beds in Poland,
Russia, Hungary, Spain, St. Domingo, England, Peru, and in this
country, Nevada, Kentucky, West Virginia, and an island oE the
cojist of Louisiana.
It is too well known to need description.
This
is
Form
of preparation.
Trituration.
for tincture, (100 parts of water dissolve thirty-six of salt).
NATRUM
NITRICUM.
NITRATE OF SODIUM.
NaN08.
This is found in large quantities in northern Iêru, and the province
of Bahia in Brazil. When pure it is a white salt, having a sharp, cool,
bitter taste. It is used for the manufacture of nitric acid, and by a
series of processes, in the production of nitrate of potassium.
Form
tincture.
NATRUM PHOSPHORICUM.
PHOSPHATE OF SODIUM.
Na2 HPOr+12H2 O.
This, the common tribasic phosphate is obtained by mixing acid calcium phosphate from bone ash, with sulphuric acid and water, allowing it to digest for several days. At the end of that time it is strained
through a cloth, the fluid portion concentrated by evaporation, and a
solution of carbonate of soda added in excess. It is again Altered and
allowed to crystallize.
Form
Solution in four parts of water
for tincture.
NATRUM
Form
SALIC YLICUM.*
tincture.
*There are a large number of
saliejiates
and
itet,
quite
cal properties.
all
of
them having medi-
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NATRUM SULPHOVINICUM.
C2
Form
H5 KS04 +2H2 O.
of preparation.
NATRUM SULPHITUM.
NATRUM SULPHURATUM SULPHITE OF
NaOS02 +3H0.
SODIUM.
Prepared by conducting sulphurous acid into a solution of carbonate of sodium, and evaporating without contact of the air. It is a
white, crystalline, efflorescent salt, having a sulphurous taste and soluble in water. It should be kept in closely stopped bottles as it
changes into the sulphate on exposure to the atmosphere. It was at
one time obtained from lapis lazuli, and is one of the ingredients of
ultramarine.
Form
tincture, (about one to four).
NATRUM SULPHURICUM.
GLAUBER
A salt existing in the
SULPHATE OF SODIUM.
NaO,S03 +10Aq.
water of many mineral springs, and
Form
Trituration.
SALTS.
the ocean.
deposit
found
in
the
in
the
neighborhood
of Tiflis
large
is
Caucasus
and in this country, pools of water containing it in such abundance
that it crystallizes on the surface during the summer, are to be seen
in the territory between Santa Fe and the head wâteis of the Arkansas river. Sulphate of sodium is in six sided, colorless crystals, transparent when recent, but in time are covered with a white powder. It
is \ ery efflorescent, and is soluble in water, insoluble in alcohol.
of preparation.
for tincture.
Saturated
solution in water
(100 parts of wâter dissolves forty parts of the salt).
NICCOLUM.
NICKEL.
Ni.
A white, malleable
metal occurring in some of the ores mined in
Hungary and Sweden.
Form
of preparation. Trituration of filings.
NICCOLUM CARBON ICUM.

CARBONATE OF NICKEL.
NiC03.
Obtained by mixing the sulphate or chloride of nickel with car-
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PHARMACOrCEIA.
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bonate of sodium, and treating the precipitate in the usual way.

a pale green salt, insoluble in neutral solvents.
Form
May
It is
NICCOLUM SULPIIURICUM.
SULPHATE OF NICKEL.
Ni, S04 +7II2 O.
Hydrated sulphate of nickel is an efflorescent salt made by dissolving

nickel in the dilute acid. One part dissolves in two parts of water.
The pure precipitated salt may be obtained by addition of alcohol to
and
original aqueous solution,
Form
of preparation.
filtering.
Trituration.
tincture.
NICOTINUM.
NICOTINE.
NICOTIA.
C20H14N2,
This, the active principle of tobacco, is a colorless, inflammable,
having the odor of tobacco when heated, and
a burning, acrid taste. It forms deliquescent salts with the acids, soluble in water, alcohol and ether, is exceedingly fatal to life even in very
small doses. It is obtained by distilling tobacco with caustic soda,
the distillate passed into a receiver containing sulphuric acid diluted
with water. This is evaporated, filtered, an excess of caustic soda
added, and the whole once more distilled. The product is a clear,
colorless liquid, and is the pure nicotine. Very hygroscopic.
irritating, volatile liquid,
Form
of preparation. Solution (1-9 or 1-99) for dilutions.
Tritur-
ation.
NIGELLA SATIVA.
NUTMEG FLOWER. SMALL FENNEL FLOWER.
This
is
a small plant growing in Syria and the south of Europe, but
cultivated in different localities. The seeds are three- cornered,

having two sides flattened, and the remaining one convex, about a
line in length, externally black or brown, internally white and oily,
is also
has an odor like nutmegs, and a warm, spicy taste.
Form
five of alcohol
two weeks
filter.
NITRI DULCIS SPIRITUS.

SWEET
See Ether nitricum.
SPIRITS OF NITRE.
part in
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NITRICUM ACIDUM.
HYDROGEN NITUATE. AQUA
NO3 (H)
FORTIS.
An acid procured from mixing equal parts of nitrate of potassium

and sulpuric acid and distilling. As soon as this commences, red
fumes arise, disappearing after a time, but reappearing toward the
close of the process. Sometimes nitrate of sodium is substituted for
the potassium salt. IMitric acid is a straw- colored, fuming, exceedingly corrosive liquid, staining the skin and other organic textures a
straw-yellow color, and forming nitrates in combination with bases.
All nitrates are soluble in water
In medicine, the colorless acid,
(redistilled with sulphuric acid) of specific gravity 1.517 should be
Dilute with water until after the third decimal.
used.
NITRO-HYDKOCHLORICUM ACIDUM.
NITRO-MURIATIC ACID.
This compound
mixed
is
CHLORO-NITRIC ACID.
NOCI2 +NC1.
formed when nitric and
AQUA REGIA.
hydrochloric acids are
more than two

and heated. Reaction has not taken place until a change
of color occurs. This is known as aqua regia, or water of gold, since
in the proportion of one of the former to a little
of the latter,
it has the property of dissolving that metal with combination.

The
chlorine alone combines. It has a yellow color and a chlorinous odor ;
readily decomposes. It is also a solvent for the noble metals forming
chlorides.
Form
of preparation. Solution in distilled water 1-9 or 1-99.
NITROGENIUM OXIDUM.
NITROGENIUM OXIGENISATUM. LAUGHING GAS. NITROUS OXIDE.
PROTOXIDE OF NITROGEN.
NO
This gas is obtained by heating solid nitrate of ammonium in a
retort and collecting it over the pneumatic trough, or through Woulff's
bottles, and thence into a gasometer.
It is a colorless gas, almost
inodorous, possessing a sweetish taste and readily soluble in cold
water. It was first brought into notice in 1800, by Sir Humphrey
Davy, and is now used for temporary anaesthesia.
Form
of preparation. Water absorbs 80 per cent, of its volume.
NUPHAR LUTEA.
YELLOW POND
LILY.
SPATTER DOCK.
A water lily found in all parts of this country, inhabiting sluggish

streams and ponds. The leaves are large and dark green, smooth and
shining on their upper side, paler and slimy on the under, and float
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upon the surface of the water. The flowers are yellow, small, round,
and rise two or three inches above the level of the water. The rhizome
is large, creeping, and has very extensive attachments.
Form
made by
adding an equal part of alcohol, or by macerating in

hol for
two weeks
five parts of alco-
filter.
NUX MOSCHATA.
MYRISTICA OFFICINALIS. NUTMKG. NUX MYRISTICA.
Molucca Islands, but cultivated in the East
Indies and some parts of the West Indies.
It is about thirty feet
high, branching, and somewhat resembling an orange tree.
The
leaves are bright and glossy on their upper, but white on their under
surface. The flowers on the trees bearing male flowers only, are clustered, while those on the trees bearing female flowers are single. The
fruit is about the size of a peach, yellow, and contains a nut, sur-
tree, native in the
rounded with a reddish, membranous covering, known as mace. The

kernel within the nut is the nutmeg. This is roundish or oval, furrowed, hard, pungent, and aromatic, and when cut or broken, presents a reddish or yellowish, marbled appearance.
Tart used. The powdered nutmeg.
Form
five of alcohol,
two weeks, and
filtering
yellow color.
part in
Trituration.
NUX VOMICA.
STRYCHNIOS.
POISON NUT.
NUX
VOMICA.
This tree is met with on the Coromandel coast, the East Indies,
China, Ceylon, and various Asiatic localities.
It is provided with
long, lithe branches, smooth, shining leaves, and white terminal,
clustered, funnel-shaped flowers.
The fruit is smooth, yellow, covered with a hard, brittle rind and con tarns a juicy pulp in which are
imbedded a number of flat, concavo-convex seeds, covered with gray
or yellowish gray hairs, having a very bitter taste. The bark is smooth,
dark grey, and is considered to be the source of the false angustura
bark.
Active principles. Strychnia. Brucia (brucin, vomicin, caniramin.)

Igasurin.
Igasuric acid.
Part used. The pulverized seed.
Seeds must be cut in thin
slices,
slightly dried, then pulverized.
Form
five of alcohol,
two weeks
filter.
part in
Trituration.
NYMPHS A ODOR ATA.

WHITE POND
A lily chiefly found
in
LILY.
SWEET WATER
LILY.
ponds and sluggish streams, from the Rocky
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The rhizoma is long, spongy, several inches in

The kidney-shaped leaves, five or six inches in diameter,
Mountains eastward.
thickness.
are deeply cleft at the base, dark, shining-green in color, and float on
the surface of the water. The flowers are large, white, fragrant, and
sometimes tinged with purple.
Form of preparation. Tincture made by

hol,
two weeks, and
Also by macerating in dilute alco-
filtering.
OCIMUM CANUM.
Brazilian plant, risirjg sixteen or twenty inches high, with a

quadrangular, grooved stem. The leaves are finely serrated, and the
flowers are in whorls, forming long spikes.
The root is large and
fibrous.
Form
of
preparation. Tincture, by macerating
and
alcohol,
filtering.
two weeks
in
Trituration.
(ENANTHE CROCATA.
WATER DROPWORT. DROP WATER.
tuberous plant, about three or four feet high, and inhabiting

lands from Michigan to the Gulf. The stem is firm, smooth,
freely branching. The leaves vary in shape on the same tree. The
flowers are white. The fruit is marked with greenish ribs, is "corky,"
and contains a purplish juice. The root is fibrous, to which a number
of elongated tubes are attached. The root and stem contain a juice
that becomes yellow on exposure to the air.
swampy
Part used. The fresh root gathered in June and August.
Form
made by expressing
the juice, then
Color, yellow-green.
CENOTHERA BIENNIS.
This hairy, herb- like
EVENING PRIMROSE.
plant is common in all
parts of Europe
growing to a height of three, four, or five

flowers open only at nightfall, and last but a single day.
this country,
feet.
and
The
Form
five parts of
dilute alcohol,
two weeks, and
part in
filtering.
OLEANDER.
NEREUM OLEANDER. ROSE LAUREL. COMMON ROSEBAY.
native of southern Europe, Palestine, and the levant, this ever-
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green has become quite familiar in conservatories, both in this country and the colder parts of Europe. The stem is heavy, rising to a
height of four to twenty feet, and sends out numerous branches covered with long, lanceolate leaves arranged in threes. The terminal
flowers are large, rose-colored.
Fart used. The leaves.
Form
adding two-thirds
parts of alcohol,
its
made by
weight of alcohol.
two weeks, and

five
filtering.
OLEUM ANIMALE.
DTPPEL'S OIL.
During the destructive distillation of bones for ammoniacal products, this oil becomes separated from the gelatinous tissue of the
bones. Formerly it was procured from hart's horn, and in the same
way. When recently obtained it has a dark brown, almost black
color, and an unpleasant, somewhat ammoniacal smell. It requires
to be redistilled four or five times, when it becomes a colorless, limpid
liquid, changing, however, on exposure to light, passing through the
intermediate shades to black, at the same time assuming a thicker
consistence.
Form
of preparation.
The
first
three attenuations by trituration.
OLEUM JECORIS ASELLI.

OLEUM MORRHU.E. COD LIVER OIL.
The cod
from which the
procured is principally found in

the waters of the north Atlantic, along the New England and Newfoundland coasts, in this country, and the coast of Norway in Europe.
rish
oil is
The liver is the only part that yields the oil. These are first boiled or
steamed, and then strained. This is known as shore oil, and by far the
purer article. Another m ethod consists in placing the livers in a barrel
exposed to the heat of th e sun, and drawing off the oil as it separates
from the organ this is straits oil. The contents of the casks, ^. e., oil
that has not been removed together with the putrefied livers, are boiled
when the vessel lands, and the oil collected from this source called
hanks oil. Pure oil is about the consistence of lamp oil, pale yellow,
or slightly brownish, and should respond to the tests for bile. Haddock, shark, and train oils have been fraudulently substituted for cod
;
liver oil.
Form of preparation. Trituration with sugar

may be used after the fifth decimal.
of milk.
Dilutions
OLEUM SANTALUM.
OIL OF SANDAL-WOOD.
SAUNDERS.
This oil is obtained from different pecies of santalum, a tree growing in the East Indies, the South Pacific islands and South America.
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Sandal wood also contains santalic acid or santal-
Soluble in alcohol.
ina.
Form
of preparation. Dilutions in alcohol.
ONISCUS ASELLUS.
COMMON WOOD
THE ARMADILLO.
LOUSE.
Part used. The entire living animal.
Form
OPIUM.
PAPAVER SOMNIFERUM. POPPY. WHITE POPPY. (LAUDANUM,
the
tincture).
This is the inspissated juice of the capsules of the pap aver somniferum, a plant native in Asia and southern Europe. It is occasionally
seen in some parts of central Europe, England, and in this country.
Its cultivation is chiefly confined to
The white poppy
is
from two
Turkey, Persia, Egypt and India.
to three feet high, with large lobed,
deeply divided leaves. The flowers are terminal and white or silvergray. The fruit or capsule is rounded, and from two to four inches
in diameter, and although all parts of the plant abound with a milky
juice, the virtues are confined to the capsule.
The seeds have no
toxic properties, and are even used for food. At a certain season the
poppy heads are incised, and the juice exuding in tears allowed to dry.
After a time, these are scraped off and the granular jelly, beaten and
moistened with saliva, is reduced to a uniform mass. The loaves are
then wrapped in leaves and exported.
Form
powdered opium
Opium
is
in five of dilute alcohol for
two weeks
very rich in proximate principles.
part of
filter.
The most important
are
1.
Morphia, and
morphia
2.
is called
Narcotinum,
opianin, but the
its salts.
(See p. 186),
and paramorphia.
J*ara-
thebaine by some chemists.

(p.
latter
and its salts. This has been called

a different principle. See Propylamine.
191),
is
Metacetamine.
Narcein, (p. 190) and its salts.

4 Papaverina, and its salts, the muriate of which is soluble. It
is prepared by precipitating infusion of opium by soda, filtering, dis3.
solving in alcohol, evaporating to dryness, dissolving residue in dilute

hydrochloric acid, filtering, precipitating again by ammonia, dissolving again in hydrochloric acid, adding acetate of soda, filtering, washing on filter with boiling ether. The alkaloid separates on cooling.
5.
Codein, (see
and cissampelin.
p. 108)
and
its salts.
It is isomeric
with pelosin
HOMCEOPATHIC
6.
Opiana.
PHARMACOPCEIA.
201
(Opiariin).
Meconin, (p. 178) and meconic acid.

PSEUDOMOKPHIA.
n. Extractives, many of them peculiar to opium.
The medicinal action of some of these is widely
9.
0.
opium
different
from
itself.
Laudanum
is
a variable tincture of opium.
OPOPONAX CHIKONIUM.
ROUGH PARSNIP.
PASTINICA.
plant with a thick, yellow, fleshy root, and a strou}?, branching

stem, ranjîng from four to eight feet high. The flowers are small,
yellow, and disposed in terminal umbels. It is a native of the levant,
and also grows wild in southern France, Italy, and Greece, but that
of the warmer latitudes only is eflicacious. On wounding the stem a
juice is exuded, hardening into tears or irregular masses of a reddishyellow color, with an unpleasant, strong odor, and a bitter, acrid
taste.
Form
of
five of alcohol,
two weeks
part in
filter.
OPUNTIA VULGARIS.
PRICKLY PEAR.
CACTUS OPUNTIA.
This is a creeping, fleshy species of cactus, usually found in rocky,

sandy places. The leaves or articulated branches spring from the tip
or sides of each other, and are covered with numerous yellow spines
or prickles. The flowers make their appearance at the edge of the
joints,
Parts used.
Form
two of
The
and are large and yellow.
The
flowers
smooth and crimson.
and stems.
dilute alcohol,
fruit is
two weeks
part with
filter.
ORIGANUM MARJORANA.
SWEET MARJORAM.
in Portugal and Andalusia, this plant is met
being cultivated both as an ornament and a garden herb. It is about a foot high, with oval, hoary leaves, and pink
colored flowers clustered upon a spike at the end of the branches.
The whole plant is soft, downy, has an aromatic odor, a warm, bitter,
taste, and is much employed for culinary purposes.
Although native only
witii in all countries,
Part used.
Form
two of
The
plant
when
in flower.
alcohol,
two weeks
filter,
part in
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OSMIUM.
Os.
This metal
is obtained from the tetraoxide by condensing its vapor

mixing with hydrochloric acid in excess, digesting with
mercury, to form an amalgam. This is distilled in a stream of hydrogen to expel the mercury, osmium remaining in the form of a black
powder. When in fine powder it is combustible
in the compact
form it has a metallic lustre.
in potash,
Form
of preparation. Trituration of the powder.
OSTRYA VIKGINICA.
IRONWOOD. LEVERWOOD.
HOP HORNBEAM.
tree found in all parts of the United States, and about twenty-five
or thirtv feet high. The width of the leaves is about twice their
length.
The fruit resembles hops, is placed at the ends of the
branches, and the sacs, or cups, each contain a flower. The wood is
white and hard.
Part used. The heart wood.
Form
the chips or shavings in five of alcohol, two weeks and
part of
filter.
OXALIC ACID.
C2
H2 O4
(Essential salt of lemons).
An acid present in the tissue of various plants in combination with

potassium and lime. In combination with lime it constitutes a variety
of calculus in the bladder. When freed from all extraneous matters
it is a crystalline salt, usually in long, colorless, flattened crystals, having an acrid taste, freely dissolving in water, but in a lesser degree
in alcohol. To 4 parts of sugar add 24 parts officinal nitric acid. Heat
until fumes of nitric oxide cease. Cool, and remove crystals of oxalic
acid. Evaporation, one-half, will cause farther crystalization.
Form
alcohol for tincture
PÔNIA OFFICINALIS.
PEONY.
This familiar plant is said to be a native of Switzerland, and is of
frequent occurrence in the flower garden everywhere. The root is
odorous, and about the thickness of a thumb, sending out spindleshaped tubers that taper into thread-like fibres. The stem is erect
and herbaceous, with variously incised leaflets. The flowers are large,
red, pink or flesh-colored. The fruit is downy and nearly straight.
Fart used. The root, dug in the spring.
Form
exposed to the
light.
made by expressing the
203
juice,
Readily decomposes on being
Beautiful red color.
PALLADIUM.
Pd.
metal usually found associated with platina, and obtained by

neutralizing with carbonate of soda a solution from which platinum
has been precipitated, mixing with this a solution of cyanide of mercury. Cyanide of palladium is thrown down as a whitish precipitate,
which after washing, filtering, drying and heating to redness, becomes
a spongy metal, capable of being welded into a compact mass. It is
a white, malleable, ductile metal.
Form
spongy metal.
PASSIFLORA INCARNATA.
WHITE PASSION FLOWER.
This plant is found from Virginia southward to Florida. It is a
climber, with a stem twenty or thirty feet long, with deeply threelobed leaves. The petals are white, with two outer rows of purple
filaments, and an inner row of flesh-colored filaments. The berry is
about the size of an apple, and of a pale yellow color.
Part used.
Form
of preparation. Tincture, by macerating in live parts of
dilute alcohol for
one week
filter.
PANACEA.
AGOUGE DOS POBRES. MERCURY OF THE POOR.
plant growing in Brazil, where it is used as a domestic remedy

for a great number of diseases, but of which we have no reliable
descriptionr.
Part used.
Form
of preparation.
PAREIRA BRAVA.
This is a native of South America and the West Indies. The stems
are slender, shrub-like, and twining, with roundish, indented leaves,
furnished with soft hair upon their under surface, and supported by
downy, leafy stalks, inserted into the back of the leaf. The flowers
are small and disposed in long racemes.
The root is received in
pieces varying from a few inches to two feet in length, and from one
to three inches thick, and covered with a thin, grayish- brown bark.
The surface is wrinkled, and in some instances knotty. There is no
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odor, but
it
ST VTES
yeliow,
part in
possesses a sweetish, niiuseous, bitter taste.
bitter principle, cissampaline has
been indentified.
Form
five of alcohol,
two weeks, and
filtering.
PARIS QUADRIFOLIA.
HERB
PARIS.
TRUE LOVE.
plant of European growth, usually inhabiting wet woods and

few inches in height. The stem is upright
and simple, with four leaves at the summit arranged in the form of
a cross. The flowers are single and yellowish-green
The fruit or
berry is quadrangular, four celled, and of a shining, deep blue ; these
together with the leaves, have a dis.igreeable odor.
The root is
vertical, jointed, fleshy and whitish.
thickets, and reaching but a
Active principles.
Paradin (paricin).
Part used. The whole plant, root and
Extractives.
all,
when
in bloom
April to
June.
Form

dilute alcohol.
made by expressing
the juice, then
Also by macerating one week in
Filter.
PASTINACA SATIVA.
WILD PARSNIP.
This plant grows wild in fields and along fences, and is about three
high.
The stem is furrowed and branching, with pinnate,
downy leaves, the upper leaflet being three-lobed. The flowers are
small, yellow, and disposed in umbels, and the fruit is large and flat.
The root is smaller and harder than the cultivated one, is fusiform in
shape, and has a hot, acrid taste. During the second year the root
acquires poisonous properties.
feet
Part used. Tlie root gathered in the autumn of the second year.
Form of preparation. Tincture, by macerating in

alcohol,
two weeks, and
filtering.
PAULLINIA PINNATA.
A plant quite frequent in the woods of
Brazil.
Said to be the same
as P. sorbilis.
Form
hol,
of preparation. Tincture, by macerating in five parts of alco-
two weeks
filter.
Trituration.
PAULLINIA SORBILIS.
GUARANA.
This climbing shrub
is
BRAZILIAN COCOA.
a native of Brazil, the seeds of which are
PHARMACOPCElA.
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mixed with water, kneaded into a paste, and allowed to harden.

then presents the appearance of cylindrical or roundish masses, of a
reddish-brown color, a roughened surface externally, and marbled
internally. The taste and odor are similar to chocolate, but it lacks
the oily nature of the latter. Chemical analysis reveals the presence
of caffein
larger proportion than in any other plant.
bruised,
It
Form
one part of the seeds in
made by macerating
two weeks, and filtering.
Tincture
live of dilute alcohol,
PENTHORUM SEUOIDES.
VIRGINIA STONKCROP.
An indigenous
common
Canada and the United States, and

generally found in moist localities. The stem varies from ten to sixteen inches higli, branching slightly and angularly. The leaves are
two or three inches long, almost directly from the branches, acute at
each end, and unequally serrated. The flowers are odorless, pale, yellowish-green, and disposed in racemes.
Form
plant,
in
of preparation. Tincture, macerating in five parts of alcohol,
two weeks.
Filter.
PERSICA VULGARIS.
PEACH.
Originally from Persia, this tree retains the name of its nativity in
the different countries where it has been introduced. It varies in
height from eight to fifteen feet, is much branching with acutely serrated leaves, three or four inches long. The flowers are solitary,
rose-colored, appear before the leaves, and have the odor of prussic
acid. The fruit or drupe is fleshy, one or more inches in diameter,
and contains a single seed, in which is enclosed an almond-shaped
kernel.
Active principles.
Amygdalin.
Hydrocyanic
acid.
Part used. The fresh flowers.
Form
of preparation. Tincture, by macerating in five parts of
Filter.
PEPSIN.
Under this name a number of articles are prepared by scraping (the
mucous membrane of the recently killed |pig, calf or sheep,
gastric
simply drying the viscid pulp thus obtained, or

drying, or, by macerating the chopped stomach,
floating pepsin and drying by pressure. Soluble in
Hence it may be
it 'is precipitated by alcohol.
and
skimming oh the
water from which
prepared pure by
precipitating
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macerating as before, straining, precipitating with alcohol, filtering,

and drying, Saccharated pepsin is made by adding sugar of milk
until a powder is formed.
PETIVERIA TETANDKA.
This bush is frequent in Brazil, where it blossoms the entire year,
the flowers being arranged on long, terminal spikes. The branching,
fibrous roots have
an odor
like garlic.
Part used. The root
Form
Tincture.
of preparation.
to be triturated
when
fresh.
PETROLEUM.
This
ROCK OIL.
oil, made from commercial petroleum by
a thin, light, yellow

with sulphuric acid, and then rectifying that portion upon
which the acid has not acted. Petroleum exists in various parts of
the world in wells and overflowing springs, sometimes floating on the
surface of streams to a considerable area. It is supposed to have been
produced by the action of subterranean heat upon ancient deposits of
sea weed, as it contains principles that abound in sea weeds, but are
absent in land plants. It is chiefly procured by boring wells until a
collection is reached. The Rangoon petroleum is to be preferred.
is
treating
Form
it
(?).
Solution in alcohol.
PETROSELINUM SATIVUM.
PARSLEY.
The home of this .plant is in Sardinia, Greece, and other parts of

southern Europe, but it has been introduced into all parts of Europe
and this country. It has a jointed, furrowed, branching stem, about
two feet high, with compound, radical leaves, composed of threelobed leaflets. The stem leaflets are slender. The flowers are small,
pale yellow, and disposed in umbels. The seeds are half fruit, planoconvex, small, ridged, and dark green.
Part used. The plant gathered when in flower.
Form
made by
PHALLUS IMPUDICUS.
A FUNGUS.
Part used. The whole fungus.
Form
PIIASEOLUS VULGARIS.
KIDNEY BEAN.
This was
first
introduced from the East Indies, and
is
largely culti-
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vated for edible purposes. It is a twining plant, with rsharp, ovate

leaves, and reaches a height of live or eight feet. The flowers are
usually white, and the frui: is a pod or legume several inches long,
containing w^hite, sometimes brightly colored, reniform seeds or
beans.
Part used. The dried seeds.
Form
PHELLANDRIUM AQUATICUM.
WATER FENNEL.
This plant, also known as the "fine-leaved water drop-wort," is
found in swamps, ditches, and other low, wet localities, in various
parts of Europe, Russian Asia and Great Britain. The stem is either
erect, trailing, or floating, according to the locality in which it grows.
Its leaves have a reputation of poisoning cattle that eat them. They
are lobed, but if growing under water, are exceedingly long and
narrow. The flowers are white, axillary, and disposed in umbels. The
fruit is in the form of ovoid grains, resemble anise seed, are greenisliyellow,and have a strong, pungent odor,
hey are similar to the Slum
latifolium, also a water loving plant.
Form
five of alcohol for
two weeks.
part in
Color, light brown.
Filter.
PHOSPHORUS.
P
wax-like substance, usually colorless, sometimes yellowish or

pinkish, flexible, insoluble in water, slightly soluble in oils, luminous
in the lark, gives off white fumes when exposed to the air, and is
very inflammable. Combined with oxygen, lime and soda, it is present in several important structures of the body, particularly the brain,
and osseous structure. In the form of phosphoric acid, it exists in
combination in various unstratified rocks. It is now obtained from
bones, but at one time was procured from putrid urine.
Form
of preparation. Solution
and
dilutions
made
1.
By
heating
absolute alcohol containing an excess of phosphorus, In a water bath,
and
after
the phosphorus liquifies, diffuse through the alcohol by
constant shaking. Decant when cool.
any phosporus, as ignition would
Do
result.
not let evaporation uncover
One thousand
grains of this
contain one grain of phosphorus, and thus forms the third decimal.
The
fourth decimal
may be
considered the second centesimal.
2.
Sol-
ution of one part of phosphorus in 500 parts of ether, aided by a water

bath, adding an equal bulk of alcohol, forms the 8x attenuation.
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There can be no trituration of phosphorus, in the presence of water

or otherwise.
Phosphates, phosphides, phosphines, or phosphites are
results.
Allotropic phosphorus possesses different properties from the ordinary, being totally insoluble, capable of trituration without change,
non-luminous, non-poisonous externally. It is capable of the usual
chemical combinations, and the two kinds are readily inter-convertible.
PHOSPHORIC ACID.
GLACIAL PHOSPHORIC ACID.
H3 O PO2 O5, or HP3
This acid is procured by the action of sulphuric acid upon calcined
bones dissolving out the superphosphate thus formed and adding carbonate of ammonia to the point of saturation. The solution is then
evaporated to dryness and heated to ignition in a platinum crucible.
By this means the ammonia and all the water except one equivalent
for each equivalent of the acid is driven off, leaving the glacial acid.
Form
of preparation.
Aqueous solution,
(1
part to 9) which changes
soon to the tribasic variety, without alteration of medicinal qualities.
PHOSPHINUM.
PHOSPHURETTED
PHOSPHORUS HYDROGENATUS. PHOSPHINE.

HYDROGEN.
PH3
A gas obtained
by subjecting phosphorous acid to heat in a retort,

the acid resolving into a phosphuretted hydrogen and phosphoric
acid. It is also produced when water, phosphorus and caustic potash
or slaked lime are lieated together, the gas being collected over the
pneumatic trough. It resembles ammonia gas, but has a disagreeable
odor of garlic.
Form
of preparation. It
Water dissolves but
cannot be readily prepared for use.
one-fifty-six of its bulk,
and alcohol dissolves
none.
PHYSALIA PELAGIC A.
PORTUGESE MAN OF WAR.
PHrSOSTIGMA VENOSUM.
CALABAR BEAN.
climbing plant having a woody stem that twines upon bushes,

and especially found along the banks of streams, and is a
native of western Africa. The root is spreading and tuberous, having many radicles. The flowers are in pendulous spikes, and of a
pale pink color. The fruit legume is about seven inches long when
trees, etc.,
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PHARMACOPCEIA.
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ripe, and contains two or three seeds. These are about the size of a
large house bean, over an inch in length and three-quarters in width,
firm, hard, brittle, and vary in color from a brownish-red to an
ash-gray color.
They are kidney-shaped, have a furrow along the
convex margin, and contain a hard, white kernel, consisting of two
cotyledons. l?hysostigniin is the alkaloid.
Tart used. The seeds.
Form
five of alcohol,
two weeks;
part in
Trituration.
filter.
rilYTOLACCA DECANDRA.
rOKE WEED.
PIGEON BERRY.
This indigenous plant grows on moist land, and reaches a height ol
six feet or more. The root is large, often five or six inches in diameter, divides into two or three branches, and is soft, fleshy, and fibrous.
The stems are annual, numerously branched, green when young, but
change to purple or scarlet. The leaves are ovate, acute at both ends,
five inches long, smooth, and rich-green in color.
The flowers are
greenish-white, and arranged in spikes or racemes.
The fruit or
GARGET.
berries are disposed in long clusters, of a dark purple or blackish

color,
and contain a purple
Active principles.
juice.
Phytolaccin
is
the resinoid.
Vegetable acid.
Form
two of alcohol, two weeks
filter.
part in
Trituration of phytolaccin.
PICRIC ACID.
CARBAZOTIC ACID. PHENOL TERNITRITE.
C6 H3 (XO2 )3 OH
An
acid obtained by the action of nitric acid upon carbolic acid,

coal tar, creasote, indigo, salicin, or silk. It is in pale, yellow, scaly
crystals, slightly soluble in water, readily so in alcohol and ether, to
each of which it imparts a yellow color and a bitter taste. Some of
its salts are slightly explosive.
It is called crysolepic, picranisic, or
nitrophenisic acids,
Form
and Welter's
of preparation.
ture, containing
about
Bitter.
Saturated solution in dilute alcohol for tinc1
to 100 of water.
PIMENTA OFFICmALIS.
ALLSPICE.
Officinal
tree.
The
PIMENTO.
JAMAICA PEPPER.
pimento comes from the Eugenia pimenta, a West India

berries are about the size of a pea, round and somewhat
wrinkled, of fragrant odor. As they are rarely adulterated, and common in household economy, a critical description is not necessary.
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Active principle. Volatile
Green
oil.
Resins.
oil.
Form
Tincture made by macerating
two weeks
in five parts of dilute alcohol for
filter.
PIMPINELLA SAXIFRAGA.
BURJSET SAXIFRAGE.
relative of the
''
BIBERNELL.
anise- oil'' plant, growing in dry
meadows and
Europe. Aromatic, biting, pungent taste. Natural order

umbelliferai, herbaceous, furrowed stem, adherent, indistinct calyx,
unequal obcordate petals, no disk; fruit ovate, ribbed, perennial;
pinnately, many-parted leaf, compound umbel, no involucre.
hillsides in
Active principle.
Volatile oil and resin.
Form
of
of alcohol,
The entire plant.

preparation. Tincture made by macerating
two weeks, and
in
Ave parts
filtering.
PINUS LAMBEKTIANA.
SUGAR PINE.
This species of pine yields a substance approaching to manna, and
a very sweet sugar called pinite.
Part used.
Form
The
inspissated sap.
of preparation.- Trituration.
PINUS SYLVESTRIS.
SCOTCH
FIR.
WILD PINE.
This is a tree attaining a height of eighty feet, with a diameter of

four or five feet, and is found in the northern and mountainous parts
substance called fir wool is obtained in Germany from
of Europe.
the leaves of this tree, which also yield a volntile oil.
Part used. The leaves and young twigs.
Form
two of
alcohol,
two weeks
part in
filter.
PIPER METHYSTICUM.
KAVA KAVA. AVA KAVA.
This plant is found growing in the SaiKlwich Islands, where
used by the natives to make an intoxicating drink.
it is
Form
PIPER NIGRINUM.
BLACK PEPPER.
vine growing Wild in China and
India, but cultivated on
the
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211
Malabar coast. Siam, Malacca and the East Indies. The stem is
woody, articulated, round, swelling near the joints, and is usually
eight or ten fefet high. The leaves are entire, broad-ovate, dark
green, and attached by sheathe-like footStalks to the joints of the
branches.
The tiowers are whitish and composed of a spathe and
spadix. The fruit consists of red berries about the size of a pea,
becoming black on drying. White pepper is the ripe berry stripped
of its skin after maceration in water.
Active principles. Piperin.
Piperic acid.
Pungent,
volatile oil.
(Piperidin.)
Part used.- -The dried berry.
Form
of preparation.
five of alcohol,
Tincture,
two weeks;
part in
filter.
PIBCIIURIM.
A South American plant, yielding a two-lobed, plano-convex, blackish-brown fruit, reddish-yellow internally, and dotted with darker
points.
Part used.
Form
of preparation.
PISCIDIA ERYTIIRINA.
JAMAICA DOGWOOD.
PLANTAGO MAJOR.
GREAT PLANTAIN. RIBWORT.
This plant is often seen growing by the roadside, in grass plots,
footpaths, etc.. in Japan, Europe, and all parts of this country. The
leaves are broad, ovate, smooth, about seven veined, and placed on
long footstalks. The scape, a foot or more in height, bears white,
inconspicuous flowers, disposed on a spike, five, six, or seven inches
long. The seeds are greenish, and very numerous. The root is com-
posed of long
fibres.
Form
made by
adding an equal part of alcohol, or by maceration

alcohol,
two weeks;
in
five
parts of
filter.
PLATINUM.
Pt.
This metal
is found alloyed with palladium, rhodium, iridium, and

mixed together in the form of an ore. This is obtained from
Brazil, Ceylon, and the Ural mountains, and in small amount from
iron,
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other localities. The metal is reduced from the ore by nitro-muriatic

acid and sal ammoniac, and heated to redness, the result bein^ the
spongy metal. This is welded into a compact mass at a white heat.

Platinum is whiter than iron, very malleable and ductile, and fusible
only by means of the oxy-hydrogen blowpipe and electricity.
Form
of preparation. Trituration of the metal precipitated by pyro-
gallic acid, or of tine filings.
PLATINUM MURIATICUM.
TLATINIC CHLORIDE.
TETRA-CHLORIDE OF PLATINUM.
Pt""Cl4
This
the bichloride of platinum of the old nomenclature (PtCl2 ),

formed by dissolving platinum in nitro-muriatic acid, and
evaporating the solution. Should be filtered with asbestos to remove
and
is
is
silver chloride precipitate.
It is a
brOwn or orange-red
and in water.
salt,
soluble in
alcohol, with gradual decomposition,
Form
of preparation.
Aqueous solution to saturation, and dilutions
in water to the fifth decimal.
PLUMBAGO LITTORALIS.
A Brazilian plant.
Form
two
of preparation.
of alcohol,
Tincture
part in
two weeks.
PLUMBUM.
LEAD.
Pb.
This metal is generally procured from the sulphide of lead, known

as galena, an ore existing from Wisconsin to Arkansas. It also occurs
in saline combination with arsenic, phosphoric acid, carbonic acids,
and rarely as an oxide. The metal is chiefly obtained from galena,
which is roasted in a reverberatory furnace at dull red heat, until a
portion of the sulphide is changed into sulphate. The two are then
mixed and the heat raised, by which sulphurous oxide and the metal
are produced. It is a bluish-gray, soft, malleable metal.
Form of preparation. Trituration, by which it is reduced to an
oxide.
PLUMBUM ACETIC UM.

NORMAL ACETATE OF LEAD. SUGAR OF LEAD.
(C2H3O2 )3,Pb+3ag.
To produce
this salt, protoxide of lead, acetic acid,
and water
'ire
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213
heat, with subsequent addition of slight excess of acetic acid. It is then filtered and
evaporated until a pellicle forms on the surface. It is then allowed to
crystallize. It is in white, needle-shaped, efflorescent crystals, having
Should the water
a sweet taste and soluble in water and alcohol.
carbonate of
contain carbonic acid, a cloudy mixture will result
mixed together, solution being aided with a gentle
lead.
Form
of preparation. Trituration. Solution in dilute alcohol, equal
parts.
PLUMHUM CARBONICUM.
CAKBONATE OF LEAD. WHITE LEAD.
CO2 PbO
Occurs sometimes in connection with ores in the form of long, crysIt is formed bypassing a stream of carbonic acid
through a solution of subacetate of lead. It was formerly manufactured on a large scale by exposing sheet lead to the vapor of vinegar
at a temperature of about 113 P., during a period of several weeks.
It is a white, scaly, heavy powder, having no odor, and almost withtalline needles.
out taste.
Form
It is insoluble in water.
May be
PLUMBUM CHROMICUM.
CHROMATE OF LEAD. CHROME YELLOW.
Cr04 Pb.
This is a yellow salt, precipitated wlien solutions of chromate of
potassium and acetate or nitrate of lead are mixed together; filter,
wash and dry in the usual way. Insoluble except in acids.
Form
May
PLUMBUM lODIDUM.
IODIDE OF LEAD.
Pbl2.
Add
iodide of potassium to solution of acetate of lead, as long as

wash and dry the precipitate. It is a bright
yellow powder, having neither smell nor taste, and is but slightly solu-
a precipitate falls. Filter,
ble in water.
Form
May
after the first decimal.
PODOPHYLLUM PELTATUM.
MAY
An
WILD LEMON. AMERICAN MANDRAKE.

plant, common to the middle and western states.
APPLE.
indigenous
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where
flourishes in moist, shaded woods,
it
mid low grounds.
It is
al)out a foot in height, with a round, jointed stem, sheathed at the
base, and bearing large, palmate,
sometimes cordate, six lobed,
yel-
lowish-green leaves. The flowers are white, veined, drooping, about

two inches in diameter, and fragrant. The fruit is a large, ovoidoblong, yellow berry, dotted with brownish spots, and having a
sweetish taste. The root is jointed and spreads rapidly.
Active principles. Resinoid, called podophyllin.
Berberina.
Part used. The root, gathered late in autumn.
Form
two of alcohol, two weeks;
filter.
part in
Trituration.
POLYGONUM PUNCTATUM.
POLYGONUM HYDROPIPER. WATER PEPPER. SMART WEED.
is indigenous in all parts of the United States, growing
rubbish, in ditches, moist soil, etc. The stem is jointed, about
two feet high, swelling above the joints, glandular, and of a reddish
or greenish-brown color. The leaves are wavy, narrow, two or
three inches long, and covered with pellucid dots. The flowers are
small, greenish- white or purplish, and disposed on slender spikes. The
fruit is rough, and either lenticular or three-sided.
This plant
among
Active principles.
Polygonic acid.
Rutic acid, (ilixanthin).
Form
of preparation.
Tincture made by expressing the juice, then
adding an equal part of alcohol, or by macerating in

dilute alcohol, one
week
five parts of
filter.
POLYFORUS PINICOLA.
PINE AGARIC.
Part used. The fungus.
Form
of preparation.
Trituration.
POPULUS TREMULOIDES.
WHITE POPLAR. AMERICAN ASPEN. ASPEN POPLAR.
This
is
the white poplar tree, the trunk of which rises to a height of
thirty or forty feet, with a diameter of eight to twelve inches.
The
leaves are two inches long, and over an inch in width. These are supported on long stalks laterally compressed, thus allowing the leaf to
be shaken by the least current of air. The fruit is an ament, about
two inches long, and furnished with silky hairs.
Active principles.- Populin.
Salicin, (saligenin
and
glucose).
Form
dilute alcohol
filter.
made by macerating two weeks
in
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PHARMACOPCEIA.
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PRINOS VERTICILLATUS.
BLACK ALDER.
WINTEKBEKRY.
plant about eight feet high, growing in moist woods and swamps
Canada, and the greater portion of this comitry. The leaves are
oval, serrated, pointed, and downy on the under surface. The flowers
are small, white, bunched and axillary, with the stamens and pistils
in
contained in different individuals.
The
berries are scarlet, six-celled
and six-seeded.
Form
alcoliol,
two parts
of preparation. Tincture by maceration in
one week
dilute
lilter.
PROPYLAMINUM.
PROPYLAMINE.
TRIMETHYLi^MINE.
C;}
Ho
(HERRING BRINE.)
A principle existing in
narcotina, cod liver oil, ergot, herring brine,

and the flowers of cratagus oxycantha, sorbus aucuparia, and is made from the digestive apparatus
of cows. It is a transparent, colorless, inflammable liquid, having a
peculiar, pungent odor. It is soluble in water. It is also known as
Tritilamin, metacetamin, (ciiylamin, secalin.
several species of chenopodium,
Form
of
preparation.
Saturated
solution
in
dilute
alcohol for
tincture.
PRUNUS PADUS.
BIRD CHERRY.
This is a native of northern Europe and Asia, where it is found
upon the borders of, and in moist woods. The leaves are oval and
wrinkled the flowers are white, lateral, and disposed in long, hanging bunches. The fruit is round, black, and about the size of a pea.
;
Part used. 1.
fresh bark of the
Forms
of
The leaves gathered

young branches.
preparation.
then adding two-thirds of
1.
its
at the time of flowering.
2.
'^he
Tincture made by expressing the juice,
Tmcture made by
two weeks Alter.
weight of alcohol.
macerating one part in two of alcohol for
2.
PRUNUS SPINOSA.
This
member
of the
BLACK THORN. SLOE.

plum family is a native of Europe and
central
Asia, and naturalized in this country, usually growing wild, but
sometimes cultivated as a hedge. It is a shrub, generally about
twelve feet high, with thorny branches covered with blackish-gray
bark, small, and solitary, bell-shaped flowers appearing before the
leaves. The fruit is a small, round berry.
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Part used. The flower buds before flowering.
Form
adding two-thirds
its
made by expressing
the juice, then
weight of alcohol.
PSORICUM.
FSORINUM.
Form
of preparation.
PTELEA TRIFOLIATA.
SHRUBBY TREFOIL. WAFER ASH. HOP TREE.
DOGWOOD.
WINGSEED.
SWAMP
A shrub six or eight feet high, frequently met with in

places,
from Pennsylvania
to
rocky, shaded
Wisconsin and thence southward. The
leaves are trifoliate, three or four inches long, and dotted. The flowers
are terminal, polygamous, greenish-white, half an inch in diameter,
and possess a very disagreeable odor. The fruit is winged, two seeded.
Active principles.
An indeflnite extractive, ptelein.
Equal parts of the bark of the root and the leaves.

preparation. Tincture made by macerating one part
Part used.
Form
of
in
two of alcohol, two weeks, and Altering.
PULMO VULPLS.
FOXLUNG.
Form
PULSATILLA NIGRICANS.
PULSATILLA PRATENSIS. ANEMONE PRATENSIS. WIND FLOWER.
PASQUE FLOWER. MEADOW ANEMONE.
This plant is met with in nearly all parts of Europe, and also in the
south of England. It prefers a sandy
to the sun.
number
The woody
root
is
soil
and a hilly locality, exposed

and round, supporting a
short, thick
of simple stems, three to five inches high, together with
numerous radical leaves. The flowers are of a violet red or blackishpurple, and placed upon stalks five to eight inches high. The plant
flowers twice a year. Great care should be taken to distinguish this
from the anemone Pulsatilla.
Active principle. A base anemonin, somewhat indefinite.
Part used. The entire plant, gathered in April.
Form of
preparation. Tincture made by expressing the juice, then

alcohol for two weeks
filter.
Greenish-yellow.
five parts of
HOMCEOPATHIC PHARMACOrCEIA..
217
PULSATILLA NUTTALIANA.
ANEMONE TRATENSIS
The only
(?).
AMERICAN PULSATILLA. PASQUE

FLOWER (?)
and is seen
Minnesota and Illinois, and westward from the
valley of the Tlatte to the Rocky Mountains.
The stem varies in
height from six to ten inches, with long, stalked, divided leaves, both
stem and leaves being covered with long, silken hairs. The flowers
are single, cup-shaped, purple, and make their appearance before the
leaves. The fruit is furnished with silky hairs, one or two inches in
length, and long, silken hairs are attached to the seeds, by which the
seeds are carried by the wind to great distances.
species of this genus growing in this country,
in dry, hilly regions in
Form of preparation. Tincture made by expressing the juice, then

adding an equal part of alcohol. Also by macerating in five parts of
alcohol two weeks
filter.
PYRETHRUM PARTHENIUM.
SPANISH PELLITORY.
FEVERFEW.
The leaves of this pyramidal plant are disposed tripinnately, the

leaves being ovate. The flowers are white and double.
Part used. The dried root.
Form
five of alcohol,
two weeks, and
part in
filtering.
QUASSIA AMARA.
QUASSIA.
small tree or shrub native in Surinam and some of the West

India Islands. The leaves are alternate, with elliptical, smooth, dark
green leaflets. The articulated footstalk is edged with a leafy membrane. The flowers are hermaphrodite, bright red, and disposed in
terminal racemes, and the fruit is a two-celled capsule, furnished with
winged seeds. The bark, root, and body wood are exceedingly bitter.
The wood is imported into this country in the form of billets, whitisli
at first, but afterwards yellowish.
l*art
used. The wood.
Form
of preparation.
five of alcohol,
Tincture
two weeks
part in
filter.
RANUNCULUS
ACRIS.
CROWFOOT. YELLOW WEED.
grows from Hudson's Bay to Pennsylvania, and found
BUTTERCUP.
This species
where it spreads rapidly. It is from one to two feet high,
with a hollow stem, usually hairy. The leaves are trifid and from one
in pastures
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and one-third
The flowers are large and

of crowfoot, yellow weed, etc.
to three inches in diameter.
golden yellow.
The common names
are applied indiscriminately to different varieties of ranunculacese.
Fart used. The fresh herb gathered in October.
Form
made by expressing
the juice, tlien
Brownish-yellow.
RANUNCULUS BULBOSUS.
This variety
is
BULBOUS CROWFOOT.
met with in meadows and pastures
in nearly all parts
about a foot high, with several round, branching

stems, swelling at the base into a bulbous expansion. The leaves are
three, segmented, and stand on long footstalks. The flowers are
glossy and bright yellow, the petals being bent downwards against
the stalk. The fruit is a sptierical head composed of a number of
of Europe.
naked
It is
seeds.
All parts are hairy.
Active princle.
Ranunculin.
Fart used. The whole plant.
Foim
made by macerating
of alcohol,
two weeks, and
in
Ave parts
Altering.
RANUNCULUS FLAMMULA.
S3IALL SPEARWORT.
An aquatic plant inhabiting ditches, swamps, etc., from the Ganadas south to North Carolina, and eastward from the Mississippi. It
varies from six to eighteen inches high, with tender, juicy, decumbent
stems, containing an acrid fluid. The flowers are solitary and golden
yellow.
The entire fresh plant.

Form of preparation. Tincture made by expressing the juice, then
Fart used.
RANUNCULUS GLACIALIS.
CARALIN OR CACLINE.
Fart used. The fresh plant.
Form
made by expressing
the juice, then
RANUNCULUS REFTANS.
CREEPING CROWFOOT.
A slender creeper of this genus, met with in more northern latitudes,
where it prefers river banks and other wet localities. The stem is
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from
PHARMACOPCEIA
six inches to a foot long, rooting at the joints.
The
and acute. The flowers are yellow, shading

long, narrow,
Form
of v>reparation. Tincture
made by expressing
tlie
leaves are
to white.
juice, then
RANUNCULUS REPENS.
CREEPING BUTTERCUP.
common
with the other varieties of this genus, tliis plant is generally found in moist and shaded localities, and is of frequent occurrence in Canada and this country. The stem is from one to four feet
high, branchmg from the base. The leaves are trifoliate, dark green,
and hairy on the veins. The flowers are bright yellow.
In
Form
made by expressing
the juice, then
RANUNCULUS SCELERATUS.
MARSH CROWFOOT. CELERY-LEAVED BUTTERCUP. CELERY CROWFOOT.
IIErvBA 'SARDOA.
This is also found in low, moist situations, with a thick, hollow,

branching stem, one to two and one-half feet high, with five parted
leaves, and numerous, small, yellow flowers. It is the most acrid of
all
the ranunculacese.
Form
made by expressing
the juice,
RHAMNUS CATHARTICUS.
BUCKTHORN.
A somewhat rare shrub seen in the mountains and woods of New

York and Massachusetts, growing from ten to fifteen feet high. The
branches are thorny and bear leaves one or two inches long, in
crowded clusters at the ends of the branches. The flowers are small,
green and numerous the fruit or berries are round and black.
Active principles. Rhamnin (cathartin and glucose).
Part used. The ripe berries.
Form of preparation. Tincture, made by expressing the juice, then
;
RHAMNUS FRANGULA.
BLACK ALDER. BUCKTHORN ALDER.
This plant
is
met with
in this country
from Pennsylvania to Canada
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where
it
erect,
liom two
inhabits rough pastures and hilly localities. The stem is

to four feet hi^h, with unarmed branches, bearing
oval, sharply pointed, serrate leaves, hairy on the veins beneath, and
about two or three inches long. The (lowers are without petals, and
the fruit or berries about the size of currants, are black and three-
seeded.
Active
princii)les.--
Same
as R. catharticus.
Part used. The bark from the younger branches (spring).
Form
of preparation. Tincture, by macerating
alcohol two weeks,
and
in
hve parts of
hltering.
RAPHANUS SATIVUS.
RADISH.
the familiar garden root, originally a native of China, and
too well known to need description here.
variety, the raphanus
aestiving, or Spanish radish is sometimes employed, the root of which
is large, turnip-shaped, and black.
This
is
Form
two of
of preparation.
alcohol, one
Tincture
week
made by
macerati'ig one part in
lilter.
RHATANIA PERUVIANA.
RATANY.
KRAMEVIA TRIANDRIA.
A shrub, native in Peru and Bolivia, having a wide spreading,

brownish or blackish-red color, and a dark colored stem. The young
branches are covered with soft, white hairs, giving them a silky
appearance. The tlowers are solitary and lake colored. The fruit is
round, about the size of a pea, and covered with reddish-brown
prickles.
Active principles.
Tannin.
Rhatanic acid.
(Krameric
acid).
Kramerin.
Part used. The dried root.
Form
five of alcohol,
two weeks, and

RlIEUJVl
part in
filtering.
PALMATUM.
RHUBARB. RHABARKARUM.
a number of varieties of this plant, and
There are
these are exported
from Turkey, Russia, China, Siberia. As received in the
market it is in the form of irregular pieces about the size of a small
fist, sometimes having a hole bored in the middle, yellow in color,
marbled with gray or red veins, and possessing a pleasant, aromatic
odor, and a bitter taste. The first named place furnishes the best
chiefly
article.
HOMCEOPATHIO
Active principles. Aporetiu.
phanic
PHARMACOPOEIA.
RhsRortin.
Erythrovetin
221
(chryso-
liheumin.
acid),
Form
of preparation. Hahnemann directs that four parts of the
pulverized root be
of potassa,
with
made
into a thick paste with
and one part of
distilled water.
live parts of alcohol.
dilute alcohol,
two weeks.
One
one part of carbonate

part of this
is
mixed
Tincture, by macerating one part in five of

Filter.
RHODIUM NITRICUM.
RHODIUM NITRATK. NITRATE OF RHODIUM.
small quantity of rhodium sponge, and the hydrate of potassa and

nitre, is exposed to the action of the blowpipe until oxidized. After
having tbe oxide well washed and boiled in nitric acid for a few minutes, and exposed to a gentle heat for an hour, the nitrate is obtained
by dissolving in nitric acid.
fluid of a golden color, and of the consistency of syrup.
Form
of preparation. (?)
RHODODENDRON CRYSANTHUM.
GOLDEN FLOWERED RHODODENDRON.
An evergreen shrub about a foot high, and a native of the mountainous regions of Siberia, Kamtschatka and the Caucasus. The
leaves are two or three inches long, smooth, yellowish-green or nutbrown, have an odor like rhubarb, and possess an astringent taste.
They are somewhat similar in appearance to R. ferrugineum, but the
latter are distinguished by the dark rust colored cover of the under
side. The flowers are red, brown and woolly.
Part used. The leaves and blossoms.
Form of preparation. Tincture, dark brown color, and astringent

taste made by macerating one part in five of dilute alcohol, two
;
weeks
filter.
RHUS GLABRA.
PENNSYLVANIA SUMAC.
SMOOTH SUMAC. UPLAND SUMAC.
A shrub ranging from six to fifteen feet high, and found in thickets
and uncultivated grounds in all parts of the country. It is made up of
straggling branches, with leaves about three inches long, becoming
red in the autumn. The flowers are greenish red and disposed in
dense terminals. The fruit is crimson, and has a very sour taste. No
definite bases or acids yet isolated.
Part used. The bark or leaves.
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Form
two of
alcohol,
two weeks
ST VTES
part in
filter.
KHUS EADICANS,
POISON IVY.
There
a diversity of opinion concerning the identity of this plant

with, or its distinctness from K. toxicodendron. The stem is twining
or creeping, is from five to forty feet long, and furnished with strong
fibres or radicals, by means of which it attaches itself to trees, fences,
walls, etc., hence the name radicans. The leaves are composed of
three leaflets, supported on long footstalks, and have entire margins.
The flowers are small and greenish white the fruit is a pale-green or
whitish berry.
is
Active principles. With R. tox. a peculiar volatile base, not named,
and
volatile acid
toxicodendric.
Part used. The leaves, gathered after sunset.
Form

hol,
two weeks and

By macerating in five parts of alco-
filtering.
RHUS TOXICODENDRON.
POISON OAK.
A shrub varying from one
to three feet high, growing in all parts of

and having a reddish, branching root. The stems are
upright^ covered with a grayish-brown bark, and contain a milky juice.
The leaves are from two to six inches long, disposed in three's, downy
on the under side, and segmented like those of the oak. The name toxicodendron is bestowed on account of its poisonous milk. The flowers
The
are small, yellowish-green, and arranged in axillary spikes.
fruit is oval, five furrowed, pale brown berry.
this country,
Active principles. Same as R. radicans.

Part used. The leaves gathered after sunset in shady places in
May and
Form
June, before flowering.
made by expressing
alcohol. By macerating in
of preparation. Tincture, dark yellow,
the juice, then adding an equal part of
two parts of alcohol two weeks
filter.
RHUS VENENATA.
DOGWOOD. POISON SUMAC.

small shrub known by some as rhus vernix, varnish
tree,
swamp
sumach, poison elder, poison ash, is ten, fifteen or twenty feet high,
and of common occurrence in the swamps of China, Japan, and this
country. The branches are spreading and the leaf stalks red, witli
HOMCEOPATHIC
PHARMACOPCFllA.
228
obloiig or oval leaflets arranged in from three to six pairs. The

flowers are greenish, very small. The fruit or berries are greenishyellow or greenish-white, marked with purple veins, are about the size
of a pea, and contain a wliite, hard, furrowed seed.
Form
of preparation.
Tincture,
part in
filtering.
RICINUS COMMUNIS.
PALM A
CASTOR OIL PLANT.
CHRISTI.
A native of the East Indies and northern

the
West
Indies,
Africa, also naturalized in

in this country. In its
and extensively cultivated
tropical home it is a plant thirty or forty feet height in but in this

climate ranges between three and eight feet. As seen in tiiis country,
the stem is large, round, hollow, smooth and purplish. The leaf-stalks
are long, supporting large, shield-like, seven or nine lobed, smooth
green leaves. The flowers are arranged pyramidally on a pointed
terminal raceme. The fruit is a smooth, roundish, three-sided, threecelled capsule, each one of these containing a single oval, oily, gray or
ash-colored seed about the size of a bean.
Part used. The ripe seeds.

Form
five of alcohol
two weeks
part in
filter.
ROBINIA PSEUDO- ACACIA.

LOCUST TREE. FALSE ACACIA.
native of Pennsylvania, this tree is occasionally met with in

many of the New England, and the more southern and western states
and attains a variable height of forty, fifty or sixty feet. The
branches are covered with thorns when young which afterward disappear. The leaves are composed of from eight to twelve pairs of
leaflets, and a terminal one.
These are thin, oval, and very smooth.
The flowers are in pendulous clusters, and have a delightful fragrance.
The fruit is a flat, narrow pod, containing five or six brown seeds.
Active principles. Robinic acid (isomeric with asparagin).

Part used. The leaves or bark of the young branches.
Form
two of
dilute alcohol
two weeks
part in
filter.
ROSMARINUS OFFICINALIS.
ROSEMARY.
ROSMARIN.
An evergreen shrub about four feet high with long, obtuse, entire,
smooth, dark green, aromatic leaves. The flowers are bright blue,
and have a camphorous odor. Possesses a medicinal essential oil,
oleum rosmarini.
(Oleum anthos).
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Part used. The leaves and blossoms gathered in
Form
May and
of preparation. Tincture, brownish green,
June.
made by macer-
ating one part in five of alcohol.
RUMEX ACETOSA.
RUMEX ACETOSELLA. SORREL. FIELD SORREL. SHEEP SORREL.
A common plant found in pastures, Iry, rocky soil and waste lands.
The leaves are halbert-shaped, have an acid taste, and contain a large
portion of binosalate of potassa. The flowers are small and reddish.
Tart used. The fresh leaves.
Form
two of alcohol two weeks
part in
fdter.
RUMEX
CRISrUS.
YELLOW DOCK.
This plant growls in ditches and by the roadsides in Europe, Russian
Asia, Great Britain and this country. The stem is two or three feet
high, smooth channelled, and few branched, with lancelike, tapering,
waved leaves. The flowers are numerous and half whorled. The
root is fusiform and yellow. Probably contains rumicin, with R.
obtusifolius.
Form

hol
two weeks

By macerating in two parts of alco-
filter.
RUMEX OBTUSIFOLIUS.
LAPATHUM ACUTUM. HERBA BRITTANICA. BROAD LEAVED DOCK
A rapidly spreading
plant, often covering large areas. The stem is

branching and leafy, the radical leaves being
large, oblong, and heart shaped, with the leaf-stalk and veins colored
red. The flowers are disposed in oblong racemes.
two
to three feet high,
Active principles. Chrysophane.

Rheinic acid.
general.
Form
Not
Rhubarbin.)
These belong
to the
Rumex
Rumicin.
family in
Lapatham.
specifically to R.
of preparation,
(Chrysophanic acid.
See R.
crispus.
RUTA GRAVEOEENS.
RUE.
GARDEN RUE.
A hardy evergreen
branching shrub, two or three feet high, rough

and woody near the base, but smooth and green as it ascends. The
leaflets are
obvate, dotted, thick and fleshy. The flowers are yellow,

in diameter, and disposed in a terminal corymb. The
It is a native to the south of
bitter, nauseous tasle.
about six inches

plant has a hot,
Europe.
HOMCEOPATHIC
Active principles. Rutin.
Quercitron.
PHAKMACOPCEIA.
225
Rutinic acid. (Rutylic acid, capric acid).
(?)
Part used. The plant before flowering.
Form of
preparation. Tincture, dark brown color, made by express-
ing the juice, then adding an equal part of alcohol.
SABADILLA.
VEKATRUM SABADILLA. HELONIAS
plant
known
also by the
names
OFFICINALIS.
of ceradilla, asagroea officinalis,
flourishing on the eastern sides of the highlands of Mexico, the encapIts exact
sulated seeds of which are exported from Vera Cruz.
position in botany is yet undetermined. The fruit, about half an inch
long, consists of three yellow, or pale brown capsules or follicles containing one or two seeds apiece. These are about a quarter of an inch
long, plano-convex, blackish or brownish, pointed at either extremity,
and have an acrid, burning long-lasting taste. It is from these that
the alkaloid veratria is obtained.
Active principles. Sabadillic or ceradic acid.

hydrated sabadillin.
Veratria.
Anhydrous and
(V)
Form
brown color, made by

alcohol two weeks filter.
of preparation. Tincture, yellowish
macerating one part in
five of
SABINA VULGARIS.
JUNIPERUS SABINA.
SAVINE.
This evergreen shrub varies in height from three to fifteen feet,

having numerous pliant branches, covered with small, erect, pointed,
dark greeil leaves, bearing some resemblance to those of juniperus
virginiana or red cedar, and have a heavy disagreeable odor. The fruit
is an ovoid, tubercular, blackish-purple berry.
It is met with in the
mountainous districts of central and southern Europe, the levant, the
ancient country of the Sabines, and the country surrounding the great
lakes of the United States.
Form
of preparation. Tincture dark
ing the juice, then adding two thirds
its
brown color, made by expressweight of alcohol.
SALICINUM.
SALICIN.
C13H18O7
The active principle of salix alba' or white willow, procured by

adding subacetate of lead to a decoction of the bark, precipitating
the lead with sulphuric acid, evaporating the remaining liquid, then
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adding washed animal charcoal,
while hot, and setting aside

in boiling a concentrated
decoction of the bark with litharge. Sulphuric acid and afterwards
sulphite of barium are added, and the liquid filtered and evaporated,
when crystallization takes place. Permanent. Soluble in 17 parts of
cold water, and 25 to 80 parts of alcohol.
to crystallize.
Form
filtering
Another method consists
SALICYLIC ACID.
SPIROYLIC ACID.
C6 H5 (OH)C02
An
acid residing in spiraea blossoms and wintergreen (Gaultheria

artificially prepared by several processes, such as
the conversion of salicylous acid by oxidizing agents into salicylic
acid ; the union of phenol (salicon) with carbonic acid by means of
sodium ; heating salicin with an excess of potash. It is a snow white,
crystalline powder, without taste or odor. Isomeric with ampelic and
oxybenzoic acids. Soluble in alcohol, slightly in water.
procumbens) and
Form
SALIX PUEPUREA.
OSIER.
RED OR PURPLE WILLOW.
The provings of what was called red willow, are found to have been
made with cornus sericea or red osier (dogwood). It is a shrub from
two to eight feet high, growing in the United States and Canada.
The bark is reddish, that of the branches dusky purple, and the
shoots are dark red. The leaves are from two to four inches long,
ovate, oval or lanceolate, and have prominent veins. The flowers are
yellowish-white, and the fruit is bright blue.
Active principles. Salicin.
Saliretin (salicetin).
Saligenin.
Form
weeks
of preparation. Tincture one part in
two of alcohol two
filter.
SAMBUCUS CANADENSIS.
COMMON ELDER.
This is an indigenous shrub from six to ten feet high, growing in
low, moist, situations, along fences, thickets and the margin of small
streams. It is met with in all parts of this country from Canada to
the Carolinas, and as far west as Texas. The stem is covered with a
rough, gray bark, and contains a light porous pith. The smaller
branches are smooth, and the leaves are oblong oval, tapering, smooth,
shining, and in three or four pairs, with an odd ova. The flowers
are numerous, small, white and in very large cymes. The fruit is a
small round, dark purple berry.
HOMCEOPATHTC
PHARMACOPCEIA.
227
Active principles. Valerianic acid. (Valeric, baldrianic, delphinic,

phocenic, viburnic).
Sambnlolic and angelic acid.
Part used. The fresh
Form
of preparation.
leave's
and blossoms.
Tincture, made by expressing the juice, then

of dilute alcohol
two weeks
five parts,
filter.
SAMBUCUS NIGRA.
THE EUROPEAN ELDER.
This differs from the American variety in size, having more the
appearance of a tree. It is found chiefly in central and southern
Europe, England and Wales. The stem is thickly branched above,
its bark is rough and whitish externally, the inner bark is without
odor, but has n sweetish and a bitter, nauseous after taste. The leaves
are pointed and four paired, with a terminal one. The flowers are
small and whitish, in five parted cymes, and have a sweetish odor,
with a bitter taste. The fruit is a blackish purple berry having a
bitter nauseous taste.
Active principles. As in
Part used.
(1).
of the young leaves. (2). Equal

and flowers gathered in June and July.
of preparation.
by expressing the
(2).
canadensis.
The inner bark
parts of the fresh leaves
Form
S.
(1).
Tincture, brownish green color,
then adding two- thirds
juice,
its
made
weight of alcohol.
Tincture made by expressing the juice, then adding an equal part
of alcohol.
SANGUINARIA CANADENSIS.
BLOODROOT.
RED ROOT. PUCCOON.
a plant of early spring, and grows in loose, rich, soils in all

parts of the country. The root is horizontal, contorted, two or three
inches long, and about the size of a finger, reddish-brown externally,
and a bright orange red internally, furnished with many radicles.
The leaf-stalks and scape arise from one end of the root. The leaves
are heart or kidney-shaped, lobed and yellowish-green, with orange
colored veins. The scape or flower stalk is from six inches to a foot
high, and bears a single white flower, sometimes tinted with rose or
purple. The fruit is an oblong capsule, pointed at both ends, containing a number of oval, reddish-brown seeds.
reddish juice flows
whenever the plant is wounded, but is deeper in color and more
abundant in the root.
This
is
Active principles. Sanguinarin, (chelerythrin).

Form
of preparation. Tincture, of a hyacinth-red color,
five of alcohol.
made by
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SANTONINUM.
SANTONIC ACID.
SANTONIN.
C15H18O3
This is the active principle of artemesia contra or cina. It is

obtained by digesting santonica and lime in dilute alcohol, and the
fluid then expressed. This is twice repeated, using the same quantity
of alcohol. The tinctures are then mixed, and a certain amount of
alcohol distilled off. The remainder is filtered, evaporated one-half,
acetic acid added in excess, and crystallization allowed to take place.
The crystalline mass is washed, dried, boiled with alcohol, digested
with animal charcoal, filtered while hot and allowed to crystallize. It
is in colorless, rhombic crystals, nearly insoluble in water, but more
soluble in alcohol (1-50) to which it imparts a very bitter taste.
Form
of preparation.
Trituration.
SAPONINUM.
SAPONIN.
C22H54O28
A proximate
principle obtained from the root of saponaria officinalis, a plant growing wild in Europe and this country, and passing
under the names of " Soapwort'.' and '' Bouncing Bet." This plant
from one to two feet high, has smooth, lanceolate leaves and
purplish flowers. Saponin is obtained in an impure state by treating
the watery extract of the root with alcohol, filtering and evaporating
filtrate.
It is a brown, translucent, brittle substance, having a sweetish taste, and soluble in water and dilute alcohol. It is also known as,
or isomeric with, senegin, s<jneguin, polygailic acid, githagin, struthen,
is
polygalin.
Form
of preparation.
Trituration.
SARRACEKIA PURPUREA.
PITCHER PLANT.
known
huntsman's cap and side saddle flower,

from Labrador to Florida, but
is usually found in the immediate vicinity of shallow^ muddy lakes,
low, wet localities, etc. The peculiarity of this plant lies in the
leaves these are tubular, swelling like a pitcher, and at the same time
bear some resemblance to an old-fashioned side-saddle. They generally contain about a wineglassfui of water. The flower is purple
and nodding, and supported upon a stalk one or two feet high.
This plant,
also as
flourishes in all parts of this country,
Part used. The bark of the
Form
root.
two weeks
filter.
part in
HOMOEOPATHIC
PHARMACOPCEIA.
229
SARSAPARILLA OFFICINALE.
SARSAPARILLA.
The
many varieties of the smilax

general name of sarsaparilla. That
roots of
officinale are
gathered
under the
variety known as Honduras sarsaparilla is to be preferred in Homoeopathic pharmacy. It
is exported from the Bay of Honduras and received here in bundles
about eighteen inches long, composed of pipe-like roots about the size
of a goose quill, covered with rootlets, reddish or reddish-brown in
color, and having a feeble, bitter taste. Occasionally the roots are
attached to a common head.
Active prmciples. Sarsaparillin.
(Smilicin, pariglin).
Parallinic
acid.
Part used. The root gathered in
Form
May
of preparation. Tincture, light
before flowering.
brown
color,
ating one part in Ave of dilute alcohol, two weeks
made by macerfilter.
Tritura-
tion.
SASSAFRAS OFFICINALE.
LAURUS SASSAFRAS. SASSAFRAS.
medium sized, indigenous tree, sometimes
This is a
attaining a
height of thirty feet. In the New England states it is not much
larger than a shrub, but in the southern states it assumes good proportions. The bark is gray, deeply furrowed, and aromatic. The
leaves vary in form and size on the same tree. The flowers are small,
greenish-yellow, and appear before the leaves.
The fruit is small,
oval, deep blue, and is supported on a red pedicle.
Active principles. Sassafras camphor.
Volatile
oil.
Sassafrid.
Part used. The bark of the root, and inner bark of trunk and
the stems.
Form
of preparation. Tincture reddish-brown,
made by macer-
ating one part in five of alcohol.
SCAMMONIUM.
CONVOLVULUS SCAMMONY. SCAMMONY.
A native of Syria, Anatolia, and some islands of the Archipelago,

growing wild in rocky places and among brushwood. The stems are
numerous, slender, twining or creeping, and sometimes extend for
fifteen or twenty feet.
The leaves are bright green, and arrow
The flowers disposed in 2s and 3s are placed upon stalks
shaped.
twice the length of the leaves. The root is three or four feet long,
and as many inches in diameter, branching at the lower part, and
contains a milky juice. At the proper season this is collected by
cutting the root obliquely across and placing a shell at the lowest
part of the cut surface to receive the juice. This afterwards hardens.
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It is largely adulterated with flour, starch, meal,
mixed with other

France
is
Form
and
in the south of
resins.
SCHINUS MOLLE.
CHILI PEPPER.
PEPPER TREE.
This is an evergreen shrub, a native of Mexico and South America,

and frequently cultivated in southern California, where it is called
Chili pepper and the pepper tree.
Fart used. The bark.
Form
of alcohol,
two weeks
made by macerating
in five parts
filter.
SCOLOPENDRA.
CENTIPEDE.
SCORPIO EUROPÂS.
SCORPION.
Part used. The entire living animals.
Form
made by
placing one part in five
parts of alcohol.
SCROFULARIA NODOSA.
FIGWORT.
square- stemmed plant of frequent occurrence in hedges and

bushes in all parts of Canada and this country, but rare in New
England. It is about two or three feet high, with long, smooth, thin
leaves, from three to seven inches long the upper leaves are variable.
The flowers are dark purple, disposed in terminal pyramids or thyrses,
on divided peduncles. The root is tuberous and knotty.
;
Part used.
Form
1.
The
root.
of preparation.
in five of alcohol,
1.
two weeks
2.
The
entire plant before flowering.
Tincture made by macerating one part

;
filter.
2.
Tincture
made by
expressing
the juice, then adding an equal part of alcohol.
SCUTELLARIA LATERIFLORA.
SKULLCAP.
indigenous herb, one or two
MAD
DOG.
feet high, found in meadows and

An
ditches as far north as the Arctic circle. The stem is square and
The flowers are
branching, with thin, nearly membranous leaves.
numerous, small, pale blue, and intermixed with leaves upon long,
lateral racemes. The name skullcap
the calyx upon the seeds like a cap.
is
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derived from the closing of
Active principle. Scutellarin, a precipitate, but not pure alkaloid.

Form
two of
alcohol,
two weeks
part in
Trituration.
filter.
SECALE CORNUTUM.
ERGOT.
SPURRED RYE.
a fungous growth, taking place in the heads of various kind

The growth projects beyond the husk, is cracked, fissured,
covered like a cock's comb, violet-brown externally, yellowish-white
internally, and has the odor of putrid fish, with a disagreeable taste.
There are usually four or five of these on the same spike, sometimes
as many as ten or fifteen.
This
is
of grains.
Active principles. Secalin (see propylamin).
Ergotin.
Part used. The freshly gathered growth before the rye
is
har-
vested.
Form
of (preparation. Tincture
strong alcohol, one
five of
Trituration
week
made by using one
milk to form the

filter.
part with
part in
Dark, hyacinth-red
ninety-nine of
color.
sugar of
first trituration.
SEDINHA.
common, herbaceous plant, growing in the neighborhood of Rio

Janeiro, having opposite lanceolate, sharp-leaves. Their upper surface is downy, the lower covered with long, silky hairs.
Form
SELENIUM.
Se.
substance sometimes found associated with sulphur, or in combination with various metals, but is of infrequent occurrence. It is
chiefly met with in Norway, Sweden, Transylvania and the Hartz
mountains. It is reddish-brown in color, has a slight metallic lustre
and when heated gives out a peculiar odor.
Form
of preparation. Trituration;
first
trituration is of reddish
green color.
SEMPERVIVUM TECTORUM.
HOUSELEEK.
This
is
a hardy garden plant, but
fs
so tenacious of life that
it
grows
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on dry walls, roofs of houses,
The
etc.
leaves are thick, fleshy,
and
mucilaginous.
Form
made by expressing
the juice, then
SENECIO AUEEUS.
GOLDEN
known as life
SENICIO.
This plant is also

root, golden ragwort, squaw weed.
found on low marshy ground, the banks of creeks, etc., in the
northern and western portions of this country. It is about one or two
feet high, with a striated stem, wooly when young, smootlier with age.
It is
The
The
radical leaves are heart-shaped, the stem leaves lyre-shaped.

flowers are golden yellow, and disposed in umbels at the summit
of the plant. The root Is horizontal, grows just beneath the surface
of the ground, and varies from half an inch to six or eight inches in
length, and reddish or purple in color. The senecio gracilis is consid-
ered by some to be the same plant, being slenderer and growing on

rocky shores. Senecin is a resinoid extractive.
Form
two of
part in
alcohol.
SENEGA.
SNAKEWORT.
This plant, the polygala senega, or seneca snake root, though infre
quent in the eastern states, is abundant in the southern and western.
The leafy stems vary from nine inches to a foot high, having numerous alternate or scattered lanceolate, pointed leaves. The flowers are
small, white, and disposed on a terminal spike from one to three
inches long. The fruit or capsules are small, compressed, two valved,
and two celled, and contain two blackish seeds. The root is ashcolored, tapering, branched, contorted, usually half an inch thick, has
a keel-like line extending its whole length, and possesses a sweetish
afterward pungent taste.
Active principles. Senegin or seneguin, identical with saponin.
See saponin. Virgineic acid. (Sapogenin).
Part used. The
Form
root.
part in
five of alcohol.
SENNA ALEXANDRIA.
SENNA.
This
is
mainly the product df Cassia acutifolia, a shrub growing
HOMCEOPATHIC
wild in upper Egypt.
It is
PHARMACOPCEIA
two or three
feet high,
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sometimes higher.
The stem is whitish, and bears leaves composed of from four to six
pairs. The flowers are yellow and in spikes. There are other varieties
and even species coming under the name of senna that are exported
from India and Africa, and cultivated in Italy, Spain, and the West
India Islands.
Active principles. Cathar tin, impure chrysophanic acid.

crin
Senne-
and sennaretin are of doubtful composition.
Form
live of alcohol
two weeks
part in
filter.
SEPIA.
SEPI^ SUCCUS.
The
from the cuttlefish, a mollusc, having an oblong body,

and furnished at one end with a circular row of flexible arms or tentacles, and a central mouth armed with a strong, horny beak. Beneath
the skin of the back is situated a flat, oval, bony plate varying in size
from eight to ten inches in length. In the posterior part of th3 abdomen is situated a gland that secretes an inky fluid, which is stored in
an oval pouch communicating externally by an excretory duct. This
liquor is forcibly ejected when the creature is pursued, darkening the
water to such an extent as to make escape possible. This gland is
removed whole and the contents dried while yet in the sac. It is
round, blackish-brown, brittle and about the size of a grape. The
sepia prepared for artists should not be used, as this has been acted
upon by caustic potash.
juice
The dessicated, inky fluid.

preparation. Trituration. Tincture
Part used.
Form
part one
of
week
in five parts of dilute alcohol.
by macerating one
Filter.
SERPENTARIA.
VIRGINIA SNAKE ROOT.
The
root of the aristolochia serpentaria
is
composed of numerous
slender, interlaced fibres attached to a central, knotty stalk.
The
height of eight or ten inches, are jomted at irregular

intervals, reddish or purplish at the base, and bear oblong heartshaped leaves supported on long stalks at the joints of the stem. The
flowers situated at the joints near the base are purple, solitary, and
pendant. The fruit is an angular, six-celled capsule, and contains a
number of small, flat seeds. The plant is chiefly found in deep woods,
in western Pennsylvania, Virginia, and the valley of the Ohio river.
stems
rise to a
Part used
Form
The
root.
five of alcohol
two weeks
filter.
part in
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SILICEA.
SILEX FLINT.
This mineral is the oxide of the inetalloiJ silicium (silicic oxide),
its English name is silica.
It is an acid, forming silicates with
the metals. It occui*s in lai'ge masses, the purest form being rock
crystals. It enters into the composition of agate, opal, quartz, chalcedony, flint and other minerals.
and
Form
of preparation. Trituration of rock crystals.
SILPHIUM LACINIATUM.
ROSIN WEED.
COMPASS PLANT. POLAR PLANT.

plant growing principally upon the prairies of Illinois and Wis-
consin, and from thence southward to Texas, frequently known as

polar plant or rosin weed. It is very coarse, bristles with fine white
hail's, and contains a large amount of resin.
The stem varies from
three to ten feet in height, having much divided leaves one or two
feet long, resembling some varieties of thistle. The lower ones are
said to uniformly present their points north and south. The flower
heads are yellow rayed, few in number, but lai'ge.
Part used. The plant in flower.
Form
part in
filter.
SINAPIS ALBA.
AVHITE MUSTARD.
an annual plant, a native of Europe, and grows from two to

with a bushy stem and lyrate leaves. The flowers are
yellow, and the fruit consists of round, spreading, bristly pods,
swollen at intervals with the seeds. These are small, round, yellowish,
have a hot, biting tiiste, and are about four in number to each pod.
The plant is similar in appearance to the S. nigra.
This
is
five feet high,
from " horse radish

Myrosin.
''
oil of
great power, analogous to that
a compound of
allyl.
Myrolic (myronic). acid.
Sinapisiu.
Part used. The seeds powdered.
Form
five of alcohol
two weeks, and
filtering.
part in
Oil used externally.
SINAPIS NIGRA.
BLACK MUSTARD.
Also a native of Em-ope, but naturalized in some parts of this
country.
It is three or four feet high
and much branching.
The
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leaves near the root are large, rou^h, and variously lobert, the topmost
being narrow, smooth, and pendant. The flowers are small, sulphur
yellow, and the fruit or pods are quadrangular, nearly parallel with
the branches, beaked, and contain numerous seeds. They are round,
blackish or brownish, smaller than the white mustard seeds, and have
a hot, bitterish taste.
Active principles. See
S. alba.
Bases are more prominent in
S.
in
nigra.
Form
five of alcohol,
two weeks
filter.
SINGEHERA.
SIUM LATIFOLIUM.
A creeping
Form
COMMON WATER PARSNIP.

umbelliferous plant, a relative of Apium grav., (celery).
;
two parts of alcohol, two weeks
by macerating the entire plant
in
filter.
SOLANUM ARREBENTA.
ARREBENTA CAVALLOS.
A plant
growing in the provinces of Rio Janeiro, and varying in

height from ten to sixteen inches. The root or rhizome gives out
many fibres. The stem and branches when young are covered with
thorns the leaves are lobed and furnished with thorns, and the fruit
is a red, fleshy, many-seeded berry.
;
Form
hol for
two weeks
by macerating in
filter.
five parts of alco-
SOLANINUM.
SOLANINE.
C21H35NO7 (?)
This principle resides to a greater or lesser extent in all the solanbut is chiefly procured from the solanum dulcamara and
The sprouts are macerated for
S. tuberosum, or common potato.
twelve or eighteen hours in water previously acidulated with sulphuric acid, expressing them and adding fresh sprouts. The liquor
thus obtained is allowed to stand for several days, then filtered,
treated with excess of hydrate of lime, separating the resulting precipitate on a filter, drying it, boiling several times with alcohol,
evaporating to one-fourth and allowing the liquid to cool, when the
alkaloid will be precipitated. Solanin is in the form of a white powder or delicate needles, without odor, but of a bitter taste, soluble in
icese,
alcohol,
Form
and
slightly in water.
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80LANUM MAMMOSUM.
NIPPLE NIGHTSHADE.
An
herbaceous plant, the stem of which is covered with hairy

and grows about two or three feet hi<?h. The leaves are
lobed, heart-shaped, and yellow veined beneath, tlie midrib being
beset with yellow spines. The flowers are pale gray and disposed in a
pannicle. The fruit is pear-shaped and yellowish. It is found in the
West Indies, and in this country in Virginia and the Carolinas.
spines,
The ripe berries.

preparation. Tincture made by expressing the juice, then
Part used.
Form
of
SOLANUM NIGRUM.
BLACK NIGHTSHADE.
A plant growing
in all parts of the world, except the northern
and
southern extremes. Its root is thready, woody, and branching, sending np an ovate, herbaceous, angular stem, one or two feet high,
bearing angular, toothed leaves. The lamina of these are perforated,
and the edges have the appearance of erosion. The flowers are white
or pale violet, and disposed in nodding spikes. The fruit is a round,
black berry, about the size of a pea.
Active principles. See solan in.

Part used. The fresh herb.
Form
of
preparation.
Tincture,
dark
brown
color,
made by
expressing the juice, then adding an equal part of alcohol.
SOLANUM OLERACEUM.
GYQUIRIOBA.
JUQEKIOBA.
An
herbaceous, creeping plant, covered with short, crooked thorns,

in damp, shaded places, in the vicinity of Rio Janeiro.
Leaves, long, narrow, and dark green flower, greenish white, and the
fruit is a round, dark green berry, with white spots.
and growing
Part used. The fresh blossoms.
Form
of preparation.
five of alcohol for
Tincture, made
two weeks
in
filter.
SOLAKUM PSEUDOCAPSICUM.
JERUSALEM CHERRY.
shrubby plant, a native of Madeira, varying from two to four
two inches long.

flowers are white and drooping with orange colored anthers.
fruit is round and scarlet, resembling the common cherry.
feet high, with dark, evergreen leaves about
The
The
HOMCEOPATHIC
Form
two of
PHAKMACOPCEIA.
alcohol,
two weeks
237
part in
filter.
SOLAN UM TUBER ^GROTANS.

The brown
Form
spots or byssus occurring in diseased potatoes.
SOLANUM TUBEROSUM.
POTATO.
This herbaceous plant has unequally segmented leaves, white flowand a tuberous root, and furnishes the well known article of diet.
ers,
Active principles. Solanin.
(Picroglycion ).
Part used. The leaves and stems.
Form
of dilute alcohol one
week
made by macerating
in five parts
filter.
SFIGELIA ANTHELMINTICA.
SPIGELIA.
PINKROOT.
WORMGKASS.
native of the West Indies and South America, having a hairy,

blackish root, sending up stems fifteen or eighteen inches high. The
leaves are paired and opposite, with four terminal, ovate, pointed
ones, placed at right angles in the form of a cross. The flowers are
white, and situated on long spikes at the summit. The seeds are
small and black, and when freshly gathered exhale a fetid, disagreeable odor. Plant not analyzed ultimately.
Part used. The herb, when in flower and seed.
Form of preparation. Tincture, greenish-brown color and nauseous

taste, made by macerating one part in five of alcohol, two weeks
filter.
SPONGIA TOSTa.
ROASTED SPONGE.
This is the fibrous dwelling or external skeleton of a polyp, inhabiting the bottom of warm seas. It is attached by a broad base to stones
and rocks, and maintains a constant circulation of water through the
numerous channels in its substance by means of cilia?, at the same
time abstracting nutrient particles from the aqueous current. For
pharmaceautical purposes brown sponge only should be used as white
sponge owes its color to muriatic acid. It should be thoroughly
washed, cut into small pieces, roasted over burning coals, and then
reduced to powder.
Form
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SOLIDAGO VIRGAUREA.
GOLDEN ROD.
This species of golden rod is common, both to Europe and this
country, being most abundant, in the latter, among the lesser peaks
of the White Mountains. The flexuous, furrowed stem is pubescent
at the top the inferior leaves are oval, and attenuated at both ends,
the upper lanceolate. The flowers are yellow, and few in number;
sometimes only a single one, and} larger than those of any other of the
;
many
species.
Part used.~The fresh blossoms.
Form
of preparation.
of alcohol for
Tincture made by macerating one part in two
two weeks
filter.
SPIRANTHES AUTUMN ALIS.

Form
made by expressing
the juice, then
SQUILLS MARITIMA.
SCILLA MARATIMA.
SQUILLS.
SEA ONION.
This is a bulbous plant, growing on the coast of those countries

bordering on the Mediterranean. The bulb is about the size of a fist,
pear-shaped, covered with thin, membranous scales gives off many
fibrous roots, and contains a very acrid, excoriating juice. From the
bulb a number of long, pointed, shining, deep green leaves arise,
together with a round, smooth flower-stalk. This from one to three
feet high, and crowned with a spike of white flowers, each of the latter being supported on a purplish stalk.
;
Active principle. Scilletin.
Part used.- The bulb.
Form
two
of dilute alcohol for one
week

;
part in
filter.
STACK rS RECTA.
Part used. The fresh plant in flower.
Form
two of
of preparation.Tincture,
part in
alcohol.
STANNUM.
TIN.
Sn.
This metal is mined in Cornwall, Saxony, Bohemia, Mexico, South

America, and the East Indies and also obtained from the bed of small
HOMCEOPATHIC PHARMACOPC&TA.
239
In this country it exists in New Hampshire and Missouri. It

a white metal, resembling silver, soft, malleable, has a slight taste
rivers.
is
and peculiar
Form
smell.
of preparation. Trituration of
found the most convenient.
Granulated
fine filings.
tin, or tin
This will be
powder,
may
be
obtained by melting the metal and stirring actively while cooling, in

a wooden box.
It
may
subsequently be graded in fineness by sifting.
STAPHYSAGRIA.
STAVES ACRE.
PALMATE LARKSPUR.
The delphinium staphysagria is a native of southern Europe, the

levant and the Canary Islands. The root is round, branching, and
hairy. The stem is about one or two feet high, with five to seven lobed
leaves on hairy leafstalks. The flowers are terminal, spurred bluish or
purplish, and attached to the flowering stem by long stalks. The
fruit is an oblong capsule, containing irregular, angular, indented,
brown seeds about the size of a grain of wheat, and has a slight odor
and a hot, bitter taste.
,
Active principles. Delphin.
Delphinin (mono-
bi-
and
ter-valerin.
Staphysain.
Form
five of alcohol for
two weeks
part in
filter.
STICTA PULMONARIA.
LUNGWORT.
A lichen existing on
the trunks of trees, sometimes on rocks, but

less frequently, when it is said to be sterile. It is lobed, dark green,
and pitted on the upper surface ; downy, and spotted with white elevations on the under side. The truit caps are reddish.
Form
the moss in two parts of alcohol for two weeks
queen's root,
part of
filter.
STILLINGIA SYLVATICA.
yam root, silver leaf, queen's delight.
This indigenous plant grows in pine barrens and sandy soils from
the Potomac southward. The root is thick and woody, from half an
inch to an inch or more in thickness, and covered with a yellowishbrown bark externally, pinkish internally, with a bitter, pungent
taste, and a slight odor. The stems are two or three feet high, with
alternate, oblong leaves, and contain a milky juice. The flowers are
yellow and arranged in a spike, the upper being male, the lower
female.
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Form
five of alcohol
two weeks
part in
filter.
STRAMONIUM.
DATUKA STRAMONIUM. THORN APPLE. JAMESTOWN WEED.
A coarse plant of common occurrence in rich, rank soil, both
Europe and
in
this country, diffusing a disagreeable odor to a consider-
able distance. It grows about three feet high, with a smooth, hollow
stem, and bears large ovate leaves. The flowers are solitary, funnelshaped, bluish-white, and grow in the axils of the leaves, or at the
ends of the branches.
Active principles. Stramonin.
Part used.
Form
Daturin
(atropia).
The entire plant when in flower.
made by expressing
the juice, then
STRONTIUM OXIDUM.
OXIDE OF STRONTIUM.
The
STRONTIA.
nitrate of strontia is strongly heated in a crucible.
sition occurs, nitrous acid
fumes are given
off,
Decompo-
and the grayish-white,
spongy strontia remains.
Form
spongy mass.
STRrCHNINUM.
STRYCHNINE.
C21H23N2 O2.
This prominent alkaloid of nux vomica, and its congeners, is prepared by boiling the seeds of strychnios nux vomica, in dilute sulphuric acid until they become soft crush and express liquid mix
with excess of hydrated lime. Strychnia and brucia are precipitated.
Dissolve in alcohol. Strychnia remains undibsolved filter and dry.
;
Form
STRONTIUM CARBONICUM.
CARBONATE OF STRONTIUM.
This exists as a native
Form
salt,
SrO CO3.
and is to be purchased of the chemists.
SULPHUR.
BRIMSTONE.
s
This element
is
widely diffused in
all
the natural kingdoms, alone
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PHARMACOPCEIA.
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Asa
simple element it is a bland, insoluble,

odorous, fusible, inflammable, brittle, allotropic, neutral, yellow solid,
having slight chemical aflinities. In combination it forms the most
powerful acid (sulphuric) and the most extensive and unstable of
ores (sulphides). Its preparation is not in the province of pharmacy.
Sulphur exists in commerce in two forms, viz., cast in cylinder
form, known as roll of brimstome, and in crystalline powder obtained
by sublimation, and called flowers of sulphur. Sulphur is a nonmetallic substance of a bright yellow color, very inflammable, and has
a slight taste and odor.
and
in combination.
Form
of preparation. Trituration of
Tincture,
made by
washed flowers of sulphur.
digesting one part of flowers of sulphur in ten
parts of alcohol for twenty-four hours, and then filtering.
[SULPHUR HYDROGENISATUM.
HYDROGENIUM SULPHIDUM. SULPHURETTED HYDROGEN.
HgS.
Place a small quantity of iron sulphide in a Marsh test apparatus,
add dilute sulphuric acid, heat. Place the end of the exit tube under
water which soon becomes.saturated with the fumes. The stench will
indicate its production. It is the odorous product of decomposing
organic matter, and is present in many mineral springs, and with soluble metallic salts throws down insoluble sulphides. It is a colorless
gas, burning with a blue flame.
Form of preparation. Saturated solution in water. Keep the bottle

upside down in water. Some sulphur will usually precipitate. Must
be freshly prepared frequently.
SULPHURIC ACID.
OIL OF VITRIOL.
H2SO4
heavy, colorless, oily liquid, having a sour taste, and a corrosive

action on organic tissues, abstracting the water and converting them
into carbon. It is prepared by burning a mixture of sulphur and
nitre over a sheet of water, in a leaden chamber. When the water
becomes sufficiently charged it is transferred to leaden and glass
retorts, and heated until the water has been distilled over. It is then
shipped in boxed glass demijohns called carboys.
Form
of preparation.Aqueous solution.
SUMBUL.
MUSK ROOT. JATAMANSI.
An unknown plant growing in northern India, and the countries

lying north and east of it, as Nepaul, Bootan, Bucharia, etc. It
p
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possesses an odor like musk, and has a sweetish, afterward, balsam

like taste.
Form
of preparation. Tincture, pale brown,
one part in
made by macerating
five of alcohol.
SYMPHYTUM OFFICINALE.
COMFREY.
A coarse plant found in Europe, England, Ireland and Asia, and

growing in the middle states of this country. It rises from two to
four feet in height, and is covered with dense, rough hairs. The
leaves are broad, lanceolate, six to ten inches long, and taper to a
point. The flowers are either pale yellow, or white, pink and red.
The root is thick, and contains a large amount of mucilage.
Part used. The root gathered just before flowering time.
Form
of preparation.Tincture,
part in two of alcohol, two weeks
brown
filter.
TABACUM.
NICOTINA TABACUM.
This plant is a native of this country and also cultivated, but
especially in the southern states. The root is large and fibrous, sending up an erect, hairy stem, from three to six feet high, bearing a
number of large leaves, some measuring two feet m length. The
flowers are bell-shaped, tubular, hairy, and rose-colored. The fruit is
a two celled capsule, containing a number of kidney-shaped seeds.
TOBACCO.
The whole
plant has a nauseous, disagreeable odor.
Active principles. Nicotina.
Nicotiana.
Part used. The fresh leaves gathered in July or August.
Form
of preparation. Tincture, brownish-green,
ating one part in five of alcohol two weeks
made by macer-
filter.
TAMUS COMMUNIS.
BLACK BRYONY.
Form
of preparation.
Tincture.
TARANTULA.
A venomous spider found in the West Indies, Mexico and California.
Form
weight, in five of alcohol one
week
filter.
part,
by
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TANACETUM VULGAEE.
TANSY.
This plant is a native of Europe, and also grows in the United States,
both in the wild and cultivated state. The root is creeping and sends
up a number of six-sided, clustered stems, two or three feet high,
having smooth, incised, dark green leaves. The flowers are terminal,
golden yellow, and disposed in many heads. The whole plant has an
aromatic odor, and a pungent, bitter taste.
Part used. The fresh leaves and flowers.
Form of preparation. Tincture, greenish-yellow color, made by
macerating one part in two of alcohol.
TANNIlSr.
TANNIC ACID.
This is obtained from nutgalls by treating them with ether, expressing the liquor and repeating the process, then evaporating and drying
on glass or tin plates. It is a white or yellowish powder, strongly
astringent, but without bitterness. It is soluble in water, less so in
(See Gallic acid).
alcohol.
Form
TAKAXICUM.
LEONTODON TARAXICUM. DANDELION.
all parts of the world.
The
fusiform, several inches long, about the thickness of
a little finger, and contains a milky juice. The radical leaves are long,
sharply toothed, and from their fancied resemblance to the teeth of a
lion, the name of leontodon has been bestowed upon the plant. The
flower-stalk is about six inches high, hollow, smooth, furnished with a
milky fluid, and bears a yellow flower. The seeds are feathery, attached
by silky fibres, and are disposed in a globular form.
This herbaceous plant grows in nearly
perennial root
is
Part used.The fresh plant before flowering.
Form
of preparation. Tincture, light, yellow-brown color,
five parts of dilute alcohol for
made by
Also by
two weeks, and
filtering.
TAXUS BACCATA.
YEW
TREE.
An ordinary sized tree often reaching a great age. The trunk is

thick and thickly branching, with leaves from half an inch to threequarters of an inch long, inserted in all parts of the branches. The
flowers are small and grow in the axils of the leaves. The fruit is a
parti-colored berry, and the seeds are very poisonous.
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Part used. The young shoots, leaves and berries (equal
parts)
gathered in March and April.
Form of preparation. Tincture, dark brown

ing the juice, and mixing with two-thirds
its
color,
made by express-
weight of alcohol.
TELLUEIUM.
Te
metal having the color and lustre of silver, but being a
A
bad conductor of heat and electricity. It is a rare metal, being only
found in a few scarce minerals, and most easily procurable from the
bismuth sulpho-telluride of Chemnitz.
brittle
Form
TEREBINTHINA.
TURPENTINE.
C10H16
White turpentine is the concrete juice of the pine, fir, etc., and
gathered in the states of North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and the
southern part of Virginia. It is subjected to distillation, and yields
This is a limpid, colorless
the liquid known as oil of turpentine.
fluid, having a strong, pungent odor, and a pungent, bitter taste.
Turpentine is also obtained in various parts of Europe, the Island of
Scio and the East Indies.
Form
of preparation. Dilution in alcohol for the first attenua-
tion.
TETRAD YMITE.
TEUCRIUM MARUM VERUM.
GERAMNDER.
in the levant, Spain, Germany and France,
the last named countries. The flowers are
CAT THYME.
shrub growing wild

being also cultivated in
situated at the end of the branches, in the axillae of the leaves, and
are of a rosy color. The entire plant exhales a peculiar, aromatic
odor.
Part used. The entire plant (except root) when flowering in July
and August.
Form

hol for

By macerating in five parts of alco-
two weeks, and
filtering.
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THALLIUM.
Tl.
A metal found
and copper
in iron
pyrites
and in
lesser
amount
in
the mica of Bohemia, the lepidolite of Moravia, and the water of the
salt works at Nauheim. It is a soft, heavy, malleable, crystalline
metal, has a metallic lustre which tarnishes by exposure, imparts an
intense, green color to a colorless flame, and marks paper like plumbago.
Form
THASPIUM AUREUM.
GOLDEN ALEXANDER. MEADOW PARSNIP.
heretofore been known as zizea aurea, but it is now
AUREA.
ZIZIA
This plant has

by botanists under the genus thaspium. It is a slender
plant, growing in Canada and this country, upon hills and meadows,
classified
and varies from one to two feet in height. The stems are upright,
hollow, furrowed, and few leaved. The flowers are numerous and
orange-yellow. The fruit is oblong, with ten-winged ridges.
Form
two of
two weeks
is
part in
filter.
THE A
This
alcohol,
VIRIDIS.
GREEN TEA.
an evergreen shrub, a native of China and Japan, usually
from four to eight
feet high, with delicately serrated, pointed leaves,
brown color, and about two or three inches

flowers are either solitary or in twos and threes, in the
axils of the leaves, snow white in color, and resemble the dog rose.
The fruit is a three-celled, three-seeded capsule.
of a rich greenish or dark

long.
The
Active principles.
Part used.
Form
two of
The
Thein, and numerous extractives.

leaves.
dilute alcohol, for one
week
part in
filter.
THEIN.
The
active principle of tea, coffee, mate,
Form
of preparation.
and other plants.
Trituration.
THERIDION CURASSAVICUM.
BLACK SPIDER OF CURACOA.
spider about the size of a cherry stone, and found on orange

West Indies. When young it is velvety-black in appearance, marked with antero-posterior lines composed of white dots. At
trees in the
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the posterior part of the body there are three orange red spots, while
upon the belly there is a large, square, yellow spot.
Part used. The living spider.
Form
of preparation. One part
by weight
in five parts of alcohol.
THLASPI BURSA PASTORIIS.

shepherd's purse.
A plant growing both in Europe and in this country where it has
become naturalized, and varying from six inches to a foot high. The
radical leaves are clustered, radiate, segmented, and from two to eight
inches long, but are wanting if the plant is crowded. The stem leaves
are small, arrow-shaped and narrow, and the flowers are small, white,
and arranged in racemes. The fruit is a small pod tipped with the
style.
oil
and
bitter extractives.
Form
five of alcohol
two weeks
part in
filter.
THUYA
OCCIDENTALIS.
ARBOR
VITiE.
This is an evergreen shrub, a native of Canada, but cultivated in all

parts of Europe and this country. It rises three, four, or five feet
high, with a woody stem, flat branches, short, flat, evergreen leaves,
and bears brownish-yellow cones. It is to be distinguished from the
thuya of China.
Active principles. Pinipicrin. Thujine. Thujetine. Thujetic acid,
all crystalline,
yellow, definite compounds.
Part used. The young shoots gathered in May.
Form
of preparation. Tincture, dark green color,
ing the juice, then adding two-thirds
macerating in
five parts of alcohol
TILIA
its
made by
weight of alcohol.
two weeks
express-
Also by
filter.
EUROPE A.
LIME TREE.
This tree is about sixty or seventy feet high, but sometimes attains
greater proportions. The leaves are heart-shaped or nearly round,
oblique and pointed. The flowers are of a pale, whitish-green color
and very fragrant. The lime or fruit is a nut, downy when young.
Form
filter.
part in
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TITANIUM.
Ti.
This metal is never found in the metallic form, but exists in such
minerals as rutile, brookite, anatase and certain iron ores. It is somewhat analogous to tin.
Form
TONGO.
TONKA BEAN. TONQUIN BEAN.
This bean is afforded by a lofty tree, a native of Cayenne and South
America, having a hard, white bark, and a white wood. The bean is
from an inch to an inch and a half long, and less than half an inch
thick, flattened, having a dark-brown, wrinkled, brittled skin, and an
oily, light-brown kernel of a strong, aromatic odor.
Active principle. Co(u)marin,
common
in
many
plants, crystaliz-
able, straw yellow.
Form
the seeds, in five of alcohol, two weeks
part of
filter.
TRACHINUS.
TRADESCANTIA.
TRIFOLEUM PRATENSE.
RED CLOVER.
A familiar little
and seen everywhere.

There are several stems springing from the same root, all haiyr,
have their oval or obovate leaves arranged in threes, and bear red or
pinkish flowers, in dense spikes or heads, at their summit.
plant, cultivated for fodder,
Part used. The flower.
Form
dilute alcohol
two weeks
in
two of
filter.
TRIFOLIUM REPENS.
WHITE CLOVER.
A variety of
the
trifolii
analogous to T. pratense in preparation.
TRILLIUM PENDULUM.
lamb's quarter.
INDIAN BALM.
GROUND
LILY.
BETH ROOT.
This plant is indigenous in the middle and western states and has
an oblong tuberous root. The stem is ten or fifteen inches high, with
the leaves disposed in whorls at the summit. The flowers are white,
solitary, terminal, and about two and a half inches long.
Active principles.
alkaloid
is
Trillin
is
a resinoid extractive.
Its
isomeric with polygallic acid (saponin, senegin).
unnamed
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Form
two of
alcohol,
two weeks
part in
filter.
TRIOSTEUM PERFOLIATUM.
FEVERWORT. WILD IPECAC. FEVER ROOT.
An indigenous plant, having a branching, horizontal root, about a

foot and a half long, and thick and tuberculated near the origin of
the stems. These are from two to four feet high, and hollow, pliant,
hairy, and are furnished with oval, prominently veined leaves, six
inches long. The flowers are axillary, whorled in threes and fives,
and of a dull, purplish color. The fruit is an oval, orange-red or
purple berry, less than an inch long, hairy, three-sided and threeseeded.
Part used. The recent root.
Form
of preparation.
two parts of
alcohol,
Tincture
two weeks
part in
filter.
TUSSILAGO PETASITES.
BUTTER BURR.
The flowering stems of this plant are about a foot high, and bear a
number of flower heads of a dull, pinkish color.
Form of preparation. Tincture made by macerating one part in five
of alcohol,
two weeks
filter.
URANIUM NITRICUM.
NITRATE OF URANIUM.
(U2O2 )2N03 6H2O
Uranium
is a metal principally obtained from pitchblende, and this

prepared by dissolving the metal in nitric acid, evaporating to
dryness, dissolving in water, filtering and evaporating to crystallization. It is in the form of lemon-yellow, prismatic, deliquescent crystals, soluble in water and alcohol. Preparations of this salt should
be kept from the light.
salt is
Form
UROLITHIN.
Form
of preparation.
URTICA URENS.
A plant found
URTICA MINOR.
STINGING NETTLE.
in all parts of
Europe and the United
States,
grow-
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PHARMACOrCEIA.
249
ing by the roadsides in hedges and is about a foot in height. The

stem is round and pointed, and is furnished with oval, elliptical
leaves.
It is covered with stiff, sharp, stinging hairs that contain
formic acid.
oil.
Unname 1, definite, basic principle.
Form
of preparation. Tincture, yellowish-green,
made by
express-
ing the juice, then adding an equal part of alcohol.
USTILAGO MADIS.
CORN SMUT. MAIZE SMUT.
a fungous growth attaching itself to the stalk or the germen
It sometimes becomes the size of an orange, or even larger,
is covered with a dark gray or brown epidermis.
Within, it is black,
pulverulent, and looks like soot. It contains ergo tin.
This
is
of corn.
Foim
five of alcohol for
two weeks
in
filter.
UVA
UESI.
BEARBERRY.
Grows in the northsrn latitudes of Europe, Asia and this continent,

and prefers a sandy or gravelly soil. It is cultivated successfully in
New Jersey.
shrub the stems are

having
trailing, with shining, dark green leaves,
a bitter, astringent
taste. The flowers are small, reddish-white and clustering.
The
the state of
It is a low, evergreen
and five seeded.

Arctuvin and arbutin, (gluco-
fruit or berries are small, round, glossy, scarlet,
Active principles. Ursin.
Ursone.
sides of hydrokinone).
Form
of preparation. Tincture, yellowish-brown color
gent taste,
weeks
and
astrin-
part in five of alcohol for two
filter.
VALERIANA OFFICINALIS.
VALERIAN.
A plant growing in Great Britain, Europe and many parts of the

United States, particularly in Vermont and northern New York.
The root is cylindrical with many, brownish, scaly branches. The
stem is from two to four feet high, having numerous, radical leaves
and smaller, opposite leaves on the stem proper. The flowers are
fragrant, white or rose-colored, and disposed in terminal corymbs.
The fruit is a capsule containing a single, compressed seed.
Active principles. Valerianic or valeric acid.
phinic, phosenic acids).
(Baldrianic, del-
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Form
of preparation. Tincture, reddish- brown,
ating one part in five of alcohol, two weeks, and
made by macer-
filter.
VERATRINUM.
VEKATRUM ALBUM.
WHITE HELLEBORE.
This plant is indigenous among the Alps, Pyrenees, Vosges, and
other mountainous regions of Europe. The root or rhizome is yellowish-white externally, pale, yellowish-gray within, and sends out
numerous, grayish, fibrous radicles. It has a disagreeable odor, and a
sweetish, afterward bitter, burning taste. The stem is thick, rises
three or four feet high, with alternate, entire, oval, plaited, yellowishgreen leaves, about ten inches long and five in width. The flowers
are greenish, terminal, and arranged in a panicle. The fruit is oval,
three celled and
many
seeded.
Active principles.Jeveric acid Jervina.

Veratrin.
Barytina.
Jervate of
Veratric acid. Veratrin.
Eorm
of preparation. Tincture, yellowish-brown, burning taste,
part in five of alcohol two weeks
VERATRUM
filter.
VIRIDE.
GREEN HELLEBORE. AMERICAN HELLEBORE. SWAMP HELLEBORE.

INDIAN POKE ROOT.
This weed somewhat resembles the V. album, and is found from
Canada southward to the Carolinas, growing in stony or wet situations, wet meadows, mountain streamsides. The root is thick and
fleshy, sending out many fine radicles, and is of a yellowish color.
The stem, ranging from three to six feet high, is supplied with bright
green leaves, decreasing in
size as
they ascend, the lower ones being
and embrace the stem. The flowers are

composed of three capsules adhering to one
six or eight inches long,
paniculated. The fruit is

another, and contain a number of
flat seeds.
Active principles. Much the same as V. album, with addition of a

medicinal resin, and other obscure extractives.
Part used.-
Form
The
root.
part in
five of alcohol.
VERBASCUM THAPSUS.
MULLEIN.
This plant
is
of frequent occurrence along roadsides, in fields, etc.,
HOMCEOPATHIC PHARMACOrCElA.
The stem
in all parts of this country.
woody and
is
from two
251
to four feet high,
The
coarse, with large, coarse, oblong, toothed leaves.
flowers are yellow
and disposed on a long, terminal
spike.
Part used. The plant beginning to flower in July.
Form
of preparation. Tincture, dark yellow-brown color,
made by
VEKBENA
OFFICINALIS.
VEKBENA.
VERVAIN.
common weed, growing by the roadside, and in the vicinity of

small towns in various parts of Europe. It is about three or four feet
high, having opposite branches, and rough, opposite leaves. The
leaves are small, blue, and in long, close spikes.
Part used. The fresh herb.
Form of preparation. Tincture made by

adding two-thirds
its
weight of alcohol.
VERONICA OFFICINALIS.
SPEEDWELL.
Form
then adding two-thirds
its
juice,
weight of alcohol.
VIBURNUM
OPULIS.
HIGH CRANBERRY.
A shrub growing in the northern states of this country, and British

America. The stems are from eight to twelve feet high, with smooth,
gray, spreading branches, having smooth, three-lobed, blunt-toothed
leaves, broader than long, and from three to five inches in diameter.
The flowers are arranged in a cyme, with the fertile ones in the
centre, and the white bordering ones sterile. The fruit is about the
size and color of the common cranberry, sour to the taste, and remains
on the bush after the leaves are gone.
Part used. The berries and leaves, equal parts.
Form
of preparation. Tincture, by macerating one part in
dilute alcohol for
two weeks
two of
filter.
VIBURNUM PRUNIFOLIUM.
BLACK HAW.
A shrub or
SLOE.
small tree, varying in height from eight to fifteen feet,
and found in woods and

spreading, with
thickets.
The branches
short, lateral, almost
rounded leaves, one or two inches long.

about one-third of an inch in length.
are
numerous and
thorny spurs, and smooth,
The
fruit is bluish-black
and
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Form
of preparation.
Tincture, made
two weeks
five of dilute alcohol, for
filter.
VINCA MINOR.
LESSER PERIWINKLE.
WINTERGREEN.
This trailinsr, evergreen plant is a native of Europe, growing in

hedges and deep woods. The root is creeping, and gives rise to a
stem several feet in length. The leaves are opposite, oblong, smooth,
and shining flowers are

;
axillary, alternate, bell-shaped, violet or blue.
It should be distinguished
from vinca major, or the greater periwinkle.
Part used. The plant, gathered when flowering.
Form
adding two- thirds
its
made by expressing
weight of alcohol.
the juice, then
Color brownish green
VIOLA ODORATA.
VIOLET.
A creeping plant, growing wild on river banks, in hedges and woods,

most parts of Europe and Russian Asia. It is also cultivated. The
root is short, branched, and knotty. The stems or runners are long
in
or creeping, with broad, heart-shaped, downy leaves, in terminal tufts,

and supported on long stalks. The flowers are nodding, fragrant, violet or white, and placed upon long quadrangular, channelled stalks.
Part used. The whole fresh plant, gathered when in bloom, in
March or
Form
April.

Dark brown color.
juice, then
VIOLA TRICOLOR.
heart's-ease.
pansy,
jacea.
This plant occurs in various parts of Europe, Great Britain and

Asia, and is also cultivated in the flower garden everywhere. The
root is branching and hairy, with a triangular, sometimes quadrangular stem, supporting heart-shaped, crenate leaves, and large, deeplylobed stipules, or rudimentary leaves. When rubbed, an odor is developed similar to that of peach kernels. The flowers are situated at the
summit of the stems. Jahr directs that the yellow and white variety
be used.
Form
two
of preparation.
of alcohol for
Tincture
two weeks, and

filtering.
VIPERA REDI.
AN ITALIAN
Part used. The virus.
VIPER.
part in
PSAtlMACOPCElA.
HOMCfiOPATfilC
Form
253
made by rubbing
together in a
mortar, one drop of the poison with ninety-nine grains of sugar of

milk.
VIPERA TORVA.
A GERMAN VIPER.
Part used.The virus.
Form
made by rubbing
together in a
mortar one drop of the poison with ninety-nine grains of sugar of

milk.
VISCUM ALBUM.
MISTLETOE.
A parasitic plant growing on the bark of
the oak, and various other

but more generally on that of the apple tree. It is common in
England, and of frequent occurrence in central Europe. The leaves
are entire, thick, and vary from narrow to broad. The fruit or berries,
about the size of a pea, are white, semi-transparent, abound with a
viscid principle, and contain a solitary seed they are used in the preptrees,
aration of bird-lime.
Part used. The leaves and berries, (equal parts), gathered in November.
Form
made by macerating) one
five parts of alcohol for
two weeks, and
part in
filtering.
WYETHIA HELENOIDES.
POISON WEED.
Form
five parts of alcohol for
two weeks
part in
filter.
XAJSTTHOXYLUM FRAXLNEUM.
A shrub
PRICKLY ASH. TOOTHACHE TREE.

about ten feet high, with alternate branches and strong
prickles, in irregular pairs.
The
rated, five paired leaflets, with
alternate leaves are
an odd one.
The
composed of serround
leaf-stalks are
The flowers are in small, dense

young branches, greenish in
color, and have an aromatic odor. The fruit is a two valved capsule,
containing an oval, shining, black seed. The bark is covered with an
and generally prickly on the back.
clusters, situated near the origin of the
ash colored epidermis, whitish or glossy on the inner surface, and has
a bitter, aromatic taste. The plant is found from Canada to Virginia,
and as far west as the Mississippi river.
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TfNITEt)
STATES
Active principles. Xanthoxylin, an alkaloid. Xanthoxylene. Xanthopicrite.
(Berberina).

parts of alcohol for
two weeks
part in five
filter.
ZINCUM.
ZINC.
This metal
and sulphide.
known
form of a carbonate,
exists, in nature, in the
silicate,
The two former are called calamine, the latter is

The sulphide is the one most used to procure the
as blende.
metal, and is obtained by roasting the ore in iron cylinders, by which

the zinc is voltatilized, and then condensed. The same process is
repeated to expel all foreign matter. It is a soft, bluish-white, crystaline metal, having a peculiar taste and odor, the latter particularly
marked on rubbing.
Form
of preparation. Trituration of fine filings of the metal.
ZINCUM ACETICUM
ACETATE OF
Zns C2 H3 02,
Prepared by mixing
ZINC.
3
H2 O
together oxide of zinc, acetic acid
and
distilled
water, allowing the water to digest for a time, and then heating to
the boihng point, filtering while hot, and allowing it to cool and crystallize.
The crystals are afterwards, drained in a funnel and dried.
It is then in thin, colorless plates or white crystals, having an astringent, metallic taste, and soluble in water and alcohol.
Form
ZIJSTCUM
CYANIDUM.
CYANIDE OF
Zn2 C N
ZINC.
Produced when a filtered solution of cyanide of potassium is graduadded to a solution of sulphate of zinc, the resulting precipitate
ally
being carefully dried.
Form
It is a white powder, insoluble in water.
ZENTCUM lODIDUM.
IODIDE OF ZINC.
Znl2
prepared by allowing metallic zinc to digest in iodinized
it is also formed by the combination of zinc and iodine during
the application of heat, while contained in a mattress. It is afterwards
sublimed and is deposited in the form of white needles.
This
water;
Form
is
HOM(EOPATHIC PllARMACOPCEIA.
255
ZINCUM MURIATICUM.
CHLORIDE OF
ZINC.
BUTTER OF
ZINC.
ZnCl2
To
prepare this, a solution of chloride of zinc is evaporated to dryan evaporating dish, and then fused. The molten mass is then
poured upon a flat stone to cool, and when it has hardened, is broken
to pieces and bottled. It is in white, amorphous or granular masses,
or in cylinders and tablets, deliquescent, caustic, and soluble in alcohol
and water.
ness, in
Form
Aqueous
solution.
ZmCUM VALERIANICUM.
VALERIANATE OF
ZINC.
Zn2C5H9 02
Obtained by separately dissolving sulphate of zinc and valerianate
and then mixing.
On cooling it forms in white, pearly scales, which are then to be
skimmed off. They have the smell of valerianic acid, possess a
metallic taste, and are soluble in alcohol and water.
of soda, heating both of these to the boiling point
Form
ZINCUM SULPHURICUM.
SULPHATE OF ZINC. WHITE VITRIOL.
Zn SO4 7H2 O
This salt is obtained by dissolving granulated zinc in sulphuric
acid and distilled water, aided by heat ; the liquid is then filtered, and
a solution of chlorine is gradually added, after which carbonate of
zinc is mixed in, until a brown sediment appears.
It is again
filtered, evaporated to concentration, and allowed to crystallize. It is
made on a large scale by roasting blende, in a reverberatory furnace.
It is also procured by dissolving the metal in dilute sulphuric acid
and
crystallizing.
Form
ZINGIBER OFFICINALE.
GINGER.
This is a native of Hindostan, and is grown extensively in the West
Indies, particularly Jamaica and in Sierra Leone, Africa. The root
is creeping and tuberous, sending up a stem two or three feet high,
with smooth, lance-shaped leaves, five or six inches long, and standing
alternately on either side of the stem. The flower stalk is from six to
twelve inches high, has no leaves, and bears a terminal spike of dingy,
yellow flowers. That grown in Jamaica is most esteemed, and is
deprived of its epidermis and dried. It is flattened, white, smooth,
;
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256
and possesses a
hot,
pungent taste. The East India ginger

is an uncoated, gray variety.
is
generally
black, although there
Active principle. A volatile
oil.
Form
five of alcohol,
two weeks
filter.
ZIZIA AUKEA.
(See
Thaspium aureum.)
part in
SPECIAL PREPARATIONS.
EXTERNAL APPLICATIONS.
Many
upon the principle of absorption others by preventing the access of air, or by suspending the functions of the skin.
They
of these act
usually consist of cerates, ointments, liniments, lotions, glycer-
These are rarely prescribed in Homoeo-
oles, poultices, plasters, etc.
pathic practice, but enter largely into domestic treatment.
CERATES.
mucous membrane, sufficiently firm not to melt at the temperature of the skin, and yet be
readily applied with the spatula or fingers. The most common base
of the cerate is lard, which should be of the purest description. The
The
cerate
is
an application
usual hardening ingredient

best.
Olive or almond
grade of paraffin
oil,
to the skin or
white or yellow wax, yellow being the
is
and spermaceti or
in the place of lard,
in the place of wax, produces a
finer
fine
grade of cerates.
The proportions of the latter ingredients do not correspond with those

of wax and lard. N orj is it' essential that the proportions should
always be the same. Spermaceti should not be used unless
up to or above 100F.
point
is
make
the combination firmer.
Spermaceti and olive
oil
oil is
resin is sometimes
may wholly displace
part of spermaceti to three of
''Sweet" almond
little
wax and
its
melting
added
to
the lard by melting one
five of olive or
almond
alone used as a constituent of the
oil.
common
external applications.
''Simple cerate-'
one to two, and
is
is
composed of lard and wax, in the proportion of
usually used for subsequent medication.
ual skill or special requirements

that oils soften, and
wax and
may modify
this
paraffins harden.
Individ-
by keeping in mind
Melt the ingredients
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258
over a very slow
fire,
or better
still,
ST/VTES
with a sand bath.
Add the med-
icine while the cerate is cooling, stirring constantly.
Cosmoline
is
now
extensively used in the preparation of cerates.
Arnica Cerate. Take of arnica tincture one
fluid
ounce, simple cer-
dte one pound, or
Take
and arnica leaves, each one ounce, simple

cerate one pound. Strain an infusion of the arnica, evaporate slowly
to two ounces, and add to melted cerate. Stir till cold.
of arnica flowers
^sculus craf. Take of tincture of sesculus hippocastanum one

ounce, simple cerate, or spermaceti cerate, one pound, glycerine one
ounce, yellow
wax one
ounce.
and wax.
to the melted cerate
Mix
tincture and glycerine,
and add
Stir until old.
Calendula cerate. Same proportions as arnica cerate.

Cerate of Ghraphites.Tsike of finely tritui-ated graphites one ounce,
glycerine one ounce, yellow
ounces.
Mix
necessary.
wax one
ounce, spermaceti cerate fourteen
the graphites with the glycerine, by the aid of alcohol
Add it to the
melted
wax and
Hamamelis cerate. Same formula as
cerate,
and
if
stir until cool.
sesculus.
Jjycopersicum cerate. Same formula as sesculus, using the ripe fruit.
Spermaceti cerate. Take of spermaceti one ounce, yellow
ounces, olive
ounces.
oil five
completely, and then add
oil.
wax
three
Melt spermaceti and wax slowly and

Medicines
may
be added in the propor-
tion of one-half ounce of tincture to the above formula, where peculiar properties
do not otherwise indicate.
Urtica cerate.
Take
of urtica urens tincture one ounce, glycerine
one ounce, spermaceti cerate fourteen ounces, yellow wax two ounces.
Melt the cerate and wax separately, unite, then add the tincture.
OINTMENTS,
Differ from cerates only by being softer.
They include many uncom-
bined substances, like glycerine, cosmoline and other soft parafiins,

butters, lower grades of spermaceti, oils, heavy, liquid, coal products,
etc.,
To prepare them from the ingredients

wax. The tendency to decomposition
increases, and this may be counteracted by adding
but not the essential
of cerates,
add more
increases as fluidity
oil
oils.
and
less
a few grains of powdered slippery elm, to the melted ingredients.

Rancidity may thus be prevented for a long time. The medicine
should be added to the melted liquid, stirring until cold.
Cosmoline and analogous paraffins make the purest, blandest, and
HOMCEOPATHIC
most "penetrating" base
and
ine,
stirring,
whiten
PHARMACOPCEIA.
for ointments.
It
it.
may
259
Medicines added to coffmol-
be used on the tenderest
mem-
branes.
Simple ointment. Tsike of lard eight ounces,

Or,
wax two
ounces.
Melt
slowly.
Take
oil,
wax two
of
three ounces.
ounces, lard three ounces, almond
Melt lard
and wax
first,
then add
oil,
or sweet
oil.
Belladonna ointment. Tsike of belladonna extract one drachm, glycerine one drachm, simple ointment six drachms.
Mix
as in hep.sulph.
ointment.
Bismuth omtment.Take of nitrate of bismuth thirty grains, simple

ointment one ounce.
Mix with
gentle heat stirring until thoroughly
incorporated.
Hevar sulphur ointment Take
of hepar sulphur three grains, glyc-
Mix
erine fifteen drops, simple ointment one ounce.
sulphur with a spatula, and add to melted cerate.
glycerine and
Stir while cooling.
Iodide of mercury ointment. Tsike of the biniodide of mercury

grains, glycerine fifteen drops, simple ointment
two ounces.
two
Mix
as
with hep. sulph. ointment.
Rose water ointment.
Cold cream. Take of almond oil three and one-
half ounces, spermaceti one ounce,
ounces.
Add the
and
while cooling.
ointment. Tmctuie
wax two
ounces, rose water two
rose water after the other ingredients are melted,
stir in
Bumex
ounce, almond
stir until
oil
rumex crisp, two ounces, glycerine one

Mix cold, apply gentle heat, and
sixteen ounces.
thoroughly incorporated.
Sulphur ointment. T2ike of flowers of sulphur one ounce, glycerine
one ounce, simple ointment fourteen ounces.
Mix
as with hep. sulph.
ointment.
LINIMENTS.
These constitute a varied
class of applications, being
than ointments, and frequently lighter than water.
more
liquid
Technically, the
"volatile liniment" is the type, implying a material which can be

its menstruum evaporates; and
some emulsions. The latter are usually classed separately, but
for external use may come under the head of liniments. Their preparation is as various as the requirements which call for them. The
menstruum or vehicle may be water, alcohol, ether, ammonia, chloroform, acetic acid, mineral acid and alkalies, alcoholic liquor, etc.
The added subhtance is generally the fixed or essential oil of the plant
which it is desired to use or the medicine dissolved or mixed with
rapidly spread over a surface while
includes
such bland
oils
as olive or almond.
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LOTIONS.
Lotions differ from liniments in being simply unmixed, but diluted,
oflScinal
as
preparations
menstruum
diluted with the fluid
They
tinctures.
in
are thus
which they are
named, when
orisjinally pre-
A tincture prepared with dilute alcohol must be reduced with
pared.
the same solvent, and aqueous solutions with water only.
no grades of strength
for lotions.
The pure
may
tincture
There are
be used as
with calendula or arnica in some cases, or excessive dilution, as with

carbolic acid over ulcerous surfaces.
EMULSIONS
Many of these come under
The
the head of liniments.
proper has a small place in Homoeopathic pharmacy.
" emulsion "
It implies the
suspension of insolubles in liquid by means of a third substance, as
gum,
The substance should be thoroughly
sugar, albumen, gelatin.
incorporated into the
gummy medium before
adding water.
GLYCEROLES.
Of
late years
account of
its
glycerine has entered
largely into
solvent powers.
Glycerine. Froiênyl alcohol, or glycerine,
and
is
pharmacy, on
is
a constituent of fats,
procured by the action of alkalies, usually, upon stearin. It
is
colorless, viscid liquid, uncrystallizable, intensely sweet, will not fer-
ment, but under ihe conditions of fermentation (mixture with yeast,

etc.)
changes into propionic acid.
It is neutral.
It should yield
no
Soluble in water and alcohol, but
precipitate with nitrate of silver.
not in ether.
Glyceroles are, in general, the admixture of any medicine in
almost any soluble proportion
but
it,
in
their chief usefulness is in the
direction of substances to which glycerine has a special affinit3^

Glycerole of starch.Take of pulverized starch one ounce, glycerine
eight ounces.
Triturate, then stir over a fire until the starch granules
burst and a clear jelly
drachm
is
formed.
May
be medicated by adding one
of tincture to the ounce of glycerole.
Olycerole of horax.Tsike of
borax one ounce, glycerine three and
one half ounces, water one half ounce.

Glycerole of
Dissolve.
Hamamelis.-Taike of hamamelis tincture one ounce,
glycerole of starch three ounces.
Mix.
Glycerole of Hydrastis.Take of hydrastis tincture
erine four ounces.
Mix.
one ounce, glyc-
Glycerole of Phytolacca. Take of
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Phytolacca tincture one ounce,
Mix.
glycerine four ounces.
OXYMELS
Are mixtures of honey, vinegar, and the desired medicine. There
are few of them, and their usefulness is a question.
INJECTIONS.
By
the term injection
body by natural or
is
understood the propulsion of
artificial orifices,
fluid into the
and syringes are used
for the pur-
Flexible rubber syringes are preferable wherever they can be
pose.
used.
RECTAL, INJECTIONS, OR ENEMAS.
These are therapeutic, when intended to introduce medicines, and

mechanical when used for loosening the contents of the bowels, or
stimulating the vermicular motion.
They are
also nutritive,
bv the
introduction of food.
A very soothing, loosening and nutritive injection

two parts
oil.
of
warm
Emulsify by rapid action of the syringe, and
influence lasts longer.

oils,
an emulsion of
water, a teaspoonful of sugar, and one part of olive
absorbed a considerable distance before producing

using
is
inject.
stool,
It
may
by which
be
its
Flexible syringes should be well rinsed after
as they soften the rubber.
Soap suds, from water and
castile soap, is also
a convenient injec-
tion for immediate action.
Starch injections are soothing and nutritious.
Medicines
may
be readily incorporated into injection
fluids.
Starch injection. Tske of fine starch one teaspoonful, water twelve
ounces.
Boil slightly, and add one teaspoonful of glycerine.
two ounces, warm water four

one teaspoonful. Mix to an emulsion.
Olive oil injection. Tsike of olive oil
ounces, sugar or glycerine,
two drachms, cut into shreds,

Medicines to be added may be dissolved
Gelatine injection. Taike of isinglass
water one pint.
Dissolve.
in glycerine.
VAGINAL INJECTIONS
Are used as washes, in quantities of a pint or more, or direct applications. Water dilutes for the former, glycerine adds consistency.
They are as various as the remedies prescribed for catarrhal diseases
of
Lukewarm water, with a

common formula is
the female generative organs.
glycerine, is the best vehicle.
little
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262
Glycerine injection. Glycerine one ounce, water ten ounces, tincture
of the medicine one drachm.
Reduce proportions
for small syringe.
Hydrastis injection.Tsike of hj^drastis powder three to five grains,

or tincture as below, glycerine one teaspoonful, water one pint.
Half an ounce of tincture
may
be used in place of the powder.
For
use with a piston syringe, reduce the proportions accordingly, adding
more than the proportional amount
of glycerine.
URETHRAL INJECTIONS.
Hydrastis injections. Take of tincture of hydrastis one drachm, glycerine
two drachms, water half an ounce.
Permanganate of potash
injection.
Take of
crystals five to ten grains, water one ounce
permanganate of potash
dissolve.
Tannin injection.-TsLunic acid one-half ounce, glycerine two ounces,

olive oil
one ounce, mucilage one ounce.
Chloride of zinc injection.
water eight ounces
Take
of chloride of zinc eight grains,
dissolve.
SPRAYS.
Medicated liquids, divided into

diseased surfaces, are
spray tube
hol
may
may
now in
spray for local application to
fine
frequent use.
The
simple, flexible, bulb
be used, or more complicated atomisers.
be used as the vehicle, or ether in some cases
quently answer, and
preferable in most cases.
is
Dilute alco-
water
will fre-
For lung and throat
diseases the spray has considerable repute.
For
anaesthetic purposes the spray
from pure ether or rhigolene
should be used, thrown forcibly against the surface.

Bhigolene
boils at a
is
one of the lighter products of rock
temperature of 70F., and
its
vapor
is
oil distillation.
It
highly inflammable
hence the bottle should be kept bottom upwards in a jar of water.

Pure, fresh ether will answer the purposes of ''freezing" by spray
admirably.
.
INHALATIONS.
Volatile medicines, or medicines dissolved in volatile menstrua, are
The apparatus
is frequently small enough to

packed
sponge, punk, asbestos, etc.,
carry in the pocket, containing
which is saturated with the medicine. A sal-ammoniac inhaler con-
used for inhalation.
sists of
dilute
a three to
ammonia,
in
five
ounce broad mouthed
which
volatile medicines
bottle, half-filled with
may
be placed. Near the
throat, within the bottle, suspend a small vial of hydrochloric acid.
cork perforated by two tubes
entrance
and extends down
to,
The
is
closely fitted.
263
One tube gives

ammonia
close to the surface of the
and ends immediately over

the vial of hydrochloric acid. As soon as air is drawn in it becomes
saturated with ammonia. It then passes over the acid and is instantly
converted into sal ammoniac (chloride of ammonia), passes into the
mouth as a dense, "snowy" cloud, and may be elected either from
the nostrils, or the lips. It is bland, unirritating and healing. For
or even dips in.
other
is
for suction,
introduction into the lungs the chemicals should be very dilute.

Carbolic acid
is
the most frequent inhalant, having a specific action
on ulcerous surfaces.
The steam
of hot water in
form of inhalation.
which medicine
The steam alone
is
is
dissolved, is a popular
often used.
EXTRACTIVES.
The "
fluid
extract"
is
rarely
used in Homoeopathy.
concentrated form of drug dilution than the tincture.
by percolation, the
first
It is a
It is
more
now made
proportion of the percolate being set aside,
the latter proportion evaporated to very small bulk and added to the
Glycerine
first.
fifth to
in
varying proportions, but generally from one-
one eight of the bulk of the solvent, is
of its solvent
now added on account
Hamamelis is often preextract has no advantages, other than
and preservative properties.
scribed in this form.
The
fluid
smaller bulk.
The
ure,
solid extract is the product of gentle evaporation of the tinct-
and
volatile,
By
is
only obtained from those plants which are entirely non-
and whose active principles are not injured by
the term
products which will unite with acids to form
Acid
heat.
basic extractives is understood alkaloids, or chemical

salts.
extractives, or vegetable acids are such as unite with metallic
The multitude of
Leptandrin, must not be mistaken
bases, either vegetable or mineral, to
Eclectic extractives, ending in in, as

for alkaloids, as they are usually
form
salts.
an unanalyzed precipitate, evapor-
ated to dryness.
GRAFTING.
There are some high potencies, only to be procured in pellets, such as
Lehrmann's, Jenichen's,Lutze's, and Dunham's, and as it is desirable
to possess these in a fluid state, the following process affords a
means
for its accomplishment.
A certain
amount
of medicated pellets are placed in a clean vial,
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264
upon which
distilled
water
is
poured in such quantity as will be
suffi-
cient to dissolve them. When a solution has been formed, it is mixed

with dilute alcohol in the proportion of one to ninety-nine, and this
in turn with absolute alcohol in the same proportions. This raises the
number
of the potency at least twice.
Carelessness frequently raises the attenuation of medicine without
a correponding increase in the number upon the label or cork. Attention to this matter is of importance.
INCOMPATIBLES.
Medicines frequently antidote each other, when two or more are in
the system at the
ical
changes
same time, both medicinally and chemically. Chem-
may produce dangerous
combinations.
After a patient
has been taking iodide of potassium freely the acetate or chloride of
mercury (calomel), even in the second decimal, would produce the

extremely poisonous iodide or biniodide of mercury.
guard against this even in Homoeopathy.
It is well to
INDEX.
A
Abelmoschus
Abies canadensis
"
nigra
Acetate of ammonia
''
''
baryta
copper
*'
''
"
" iron
''
lead
" lime
" manganese
" mercury
"
''
*'
''
morphia
"
" potassa
"
" zinc
Acetic acid
Achillea millefolium
Aconite
Aconitum anthora
"
common
"
"
lycoctorum
ferox
napellus
Actea racemosa
'*
spicata
^sculus hippocastanum
''
glabra
^thusa cynapium
Agaricus campulata
"
muscarius
''
laricis
Agave Americana
Agnus castus
Agouge dos pobros
Ailanthus glandulosa
Alcohol
Alder, red
"
tag
Aletris farinosa
Allium cepa
sativum
Alnus rubra
Aloes
Aloe Americana
Ambergris
''
33
33
34
43
71
117
133
2J2
81
177
180
187
grisea
"
maratima
Ambrosia artemesiafolia
American aloe
aspen
Colombo
"
cowslip
hellebore
"
Indian
''
holly
hemp
ivy
''
mandrake
penny royal
'
Pulsatilla
160
"
spikenard
254
tea
35
"
wâter hemlock
101
35
44
35 Ammonia liquor
43
36 Ammoniacum
36 Ammonio-chloride of mercury^183
" silver
57
36
"
sulphate of copper 117
36
4?
35 Ammonium aceticum
''
benzoicum
102
44
"
44
bômidum
36
''
carbonicum
44
36
''
causticum
37
44
"
citricum
45
37
"
iodidum
45
37
''
37
muriaticum
45
"
nitricum
46
75
"
phosphoricum
46
38
38 Ampelopsis quinquefolia
46
203 Amphisboena vermicularis
46
47
38 Amygdalae amarae aqua
47
39 Amyl nitrite
47
40 Amylamine chlorohydrate
48
40 Anacardium orientale
48
39 Anagallis arvensis
48
40 Anatherum muricatum
216-217
40 Anemone pratensis
40 Angelica archangelica
49
''
atropurpura
49
41
50
38 Angustura vera
Alstonia scholaris
41
Alum
Alumen
42 Animal charcoal
42 Anise-seed, star
42 Ant, red
Anthemis nobilis
42 Anthoxanthum odoratum
Alumina
Amanita muscaria
Ambergris
42
42
42
43
38
214
138
84
250
154
55
46
213
147
217
56
93
Aniline
50
88
154
137
50
51
INDEX.
266
Anthrakokali
Antimonium arsenicum
"
chloridum
'^
crudum
oxidum
"
"
sulph. aurat.
et potass, tart.
',
Aphis chenopodium glauca

Apis mellifica
Apium graveolens
Apium virus
Apocynum androsemifolium
"
cannabinum
ApoiQorphinum chloridum
Aqua
calcis
fortis
"
" marina
" regia
Aquilegia vulgaris
Aralia racemosa
Aranea diadema
''
scinencia
Arbor
vitse
Argentum
Argentum ammonio-chloride
cyanidum
iodidum
muriaticum
*'
"
"
"
nitricum
phosphoricum
''
Aristolochia clematitis
''
"
milhomens
serpentaria
Armadillo
Arnica montana
Aroine
Arsenetted hydrogen
Arseniate of antimony
"
*'
iron
Arsenicum
''
album
citrinum
''
hydrogenisatum
iodidum
sulph. flavum
sulph.
Arsenite of
""
"
"
''
"
"
''
"
rubrum
lime
cinchona
copper
potassa
sodium
Artemesia contra- judaica

''
abrotanum
"
absinthium
"
Arum
""
"
vulgaris
dracun cuius
italicum
maculatum
*'
triphyllum
**
seguinum
Asarabacca
Asarum canadensis
"
Europseum
52
'
52
incarnata
"
52
tuberosa
''
syriaca
53
53 Asclepione
53
53
54
53
54
56
55
82
196
56
196
56
56
56
56
246
57
57
57
58
58
58
59
59
59
263
200
59
64
61
51
133
Asparagus officinalis
Aspen, American
poplar
Assacu
Assafoetida
Asterias rubens
Athamanta oreoselinum
Atriplex olida
Atropa belladonna
Atropia sulphas
Atropine
Aurum
V
fulminans
''
muriaticum
"
et
natrum mur
"
sulphuratum
Australian gum tree
Ava kava
Awa Samoa
61
61
61
65
65
65
66
66
66
66
67
214
214
150
64
67
68
96
72
68
68
68
66
69
69
69
127
210
76
B
Balmody
Balsam apple
copaiba
''
Peru
Banana
Baneberry
Baptisia
Barba di boa
Barbadoes nut
Barberry
60 Barosma crenata
60 Baryta aceticum
''
"
"
"
51
51
''
carbonicum
Barium iodidum
61
"
muriaticum
Bayber^y
62
Bay
tree
81
97
117
Bean, kidney
Bearberry
Bear's breech
160
191
103
62
34
62
63
63
63
64
80
Bear's foot
Beaver
Beech
Belladonna
Bellis perennis
Benzine
Benzinum
"
nitricum
Benzoic acid
Berberiae
Berberinum
96
186
112
70
188
32
70
147
158
74
70
71
71
71
72
189
176
206
249
149
148
92
131
72
72
73
73
73
73
74
74
Berberis dumetorum
"
vulgaris
Beth root
Bhang
Biborate of soda
Bichloride of mercury
""
" methylene
Bichromate of potash
""
" potassium
Bicyanide of mercury
Bignonia sempervivens
Biniodide of mercury
Biniodide of iron
Binoxalate of potassa
Bird cherry
weed
Bindweed
''
Birthwort
Bismuthum oxidum
subnitricum
Bisulphide of carbon
Bisulphuret of iodine
Bitter apple
''
"
Bittersweet
Black alder
bryony
'*
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
76
136
76
Box
Boxwood
181
Brancha ursina
185
160
160
181
141
182
134
164
215
111
111
59
74
74
90
Brachyglottis repens
Brazilian cocoa
''
deer
'*
rattlesnake
Bothrops lanceoiatus
Bounafa
Bovista nigrescens
"
snakeroot
Brimstone
Broad-leaved dock
Bromide of mercury
"
potassium
"
" sodium
'*
Bromine
Bromium
Brown-tailed moth
Brucea anti-dysenterica
Brucia
Brucine
123
215-219
242
Buchu
Buckbean
Buckeye
haw
251
hellebore
148
'^
alder
152 Buckwheat
144 Bufo vulgaris
134
" satyriensis
183 Bug agaric
178 Bugle weed
236 Bulbous crowfoot
210 Bull rush
170 Burdock
102 Burning bush
245 Butter bur
lead
oxide of iron
oxide of mercury
oxide of manganese
%
"
nightshade
pepper
''
root
"-
snake root
spider of curacoa
''
spruce
" thorn
Blatta Americana
Blazing star
Blessed thistle
Bloodroot
Blue cohosh
''
74
74
247
86
192
Brunswick green
Bryonia alba
109 Bryonin
henbane
''
267
109
chamomile
cucumber
'
INDEX.
flag
" lobelia
" vitriol
Boletus laricis
"
satanus
"
pinus
Bombyx chrysorrhoea
"
processionea
Boneset
Bonplandia
gustura)
Boracic acid
Borax
Boric acid
Buck thorn
34 Buttercup
211 Butterfly weed

75 Butternut
148 Butter of zinc
90
227
92
157
172
118
75
75
75
75
75
129
trifoliata (see an-
Button snakeroot
Buxus sempervirens
Cacao
Cacline
Cactus grandiflorus
opuntia
Cadmium muriaticum
''
sulphuratum
Caffeinum
Cainca
Cajaputum
76
76
76
Cajaput
Calabar bean
Caladium seguinum
78
78
149
76
204
95
116
59
240
224
181
161
192
77
77
75
77
77
77
118
77
77
70
180
37-180
219
219
131
78
78
37
174
218
159
169
128
248
217-219
66
lo8
255
126
78
78
218
79
201
79
79
108
80
80
80
208
80
INDEX.
268
Calcarea acetica
'
arsenita
'
carbonica
'
caustica
81
81
81
'
fluorica
chlorinata
'
hypophosphita
iodida
lead
muriatica
82
82
82
82
83
213
83
ostrearum
81
oxalata
muriatica
83
83
83
84
84
84
166
'
'
'
'
'
phosphorica
silico-fluoricum
'
Calico bush
Calomel
Caltha palustris
Camphor
Camphora
monobromica
Canada fleafane
Canada snakeroot
Candy tuft
Canaramine
Canna augustif olia

glauca
Cannabis indica
"
sativa
Cantharidin
Cantharis vesicatoria
Capsicum annuum
Car bo animalis
"
vegetabilis
Carbazotic acid
Carbolic acid
Carbonate of barium
"
"
"
"
"
''
baryta
" copper
" iron
'
lime
''
lithium
magnesia
" manganese
''
''
"
"
**
nickel
" potassium
" sodium
''
strontium
Carboneum
Carboneum chloratum
"
hydrogenisatum
oxygen isatum
sulphuratum
"
Carboneus oxide
Carburetted hydrogen
Cardlinal flower
Cascarilla elutheria
bark
Cassada
Cassava
Castanea vesca
Castor equi
'
fiber
''
oil
plant
Catch fly
Cat thyme
Caulophyllin
84 Celery
84 Celery-leaved buttercup
85 Centaurea tagana
125 Centipede
65 Cephselis ipecacuanha
153 Cerasus virginiana
77 Cerium oxalatum
85 Cereus Bonplandii
''
serpen tinus
85
189 Cereus braziliensis
86 Chamomilla
86 Chaste tree
86 Checkerberry
87 Chelidonium majus
Cancer fluviatilis
Canchalagua
Candle berry
"
Carlina
Carya alba
Caulophyllum thalictroides
Causticum
Cayenne pepper
181 Ceanothus Americana
84 Cedron
sulphurica
Calendula officinalis
'
''
Carduus benedictus
''
marianus
90
90
218
90
91
91
91
91
91
92
92
223
54
244
93
92
93
87
93
93
219
94
230
156
94
94
94
94
95
95
38
186
95
96
Chelone glabra
87 Chenopodium anthelminticum 96
'*
vulvaria
96
87
"
olidum
96
88
170
88 Cherry laurel
91
209 Chestnut
101
88 Chicory
169
Chick pea
71
230
Chili pepper
97
118 Chimaphila umbellata
97
133 China
97
81 Chininum arsenitum
hydrocyanicum
98
172
''
hypophosphitum
98
174
"
muriaticum
177
98
"
sulphuricum
194
98
161 Chinoidine
99
99
192 Chionanthes virginica
100
240 Chloral hydrate
99
89 Chloralum
99
89 Chloratum
161
89 Chlorate of potassa
45
89 Chloride of ammonia
"
" antimony
52
90
'
" barium
72
89
"
" bichloromethyl
100
89
"
" cadmium
79
172
''-
INDEX.
Chloride of carbon
"
" copper
'*
*'
chinin
" gold
"
" iron
" lime
'
" magnesia
''
" manganese
"
" morphia
"
" platinum
''
''
quinia
"
sodium
"
" zinc
Chlorine gas
Chlorinated lime
Chloro-aurate of soda
Chlorhydric acid
Chloronitric acid
89
118
98
69
134
83
175
177
187
212
98
193
255
100
82
69
188
196
Chloroformum
100
100
47
100
114
**
Chloroform
Chlorohydrate of amylamine
Chlorum
Choice dielytra
Choke cherry
Christmas rose
Chromate of lead
Chrome yellow
Chromic acid
Chromic oxide
Chromium
"
trioxide
sesquioxide
Chionanthus virginica
Cichorum
Cicuta maculata
"
Cicutin
virosa
Cimicifuga racemosa
Cina
Cinchona bark
Cinchona officinalis
Cinchonium sulphuricum
269
Cocoa
Cod, the
Cod
Coffea cruda
''
Coffeinum
Cohosh
Colchicein
Colchicin
Colchicum autumnale
Collinsonia canadensis
Colocynthin
Colocynthis
Colorado beetle
Colic root
Coltsfoot
Columbine
Columbo, American
Comfrey
Common
94 Compass plant
148 Condor plant
213 Conia
213 Coniin
100 Conium maculatum
101 Convolvulus arvensis
''
100
duartinus
"
101
scammony
99 Copaiba officinalis
101 Copaiva
Copper
Copperas
111 Coral snake
102 Coral lium rubrum
103 Coriana ruscifolia
97 Corn sweet
97 Cornus circinata
101
102
98
"
''
Cinnabar
103
103
103
104
104
105
106
Cistus canadensis
Citric acid
Citrus limonum
'
vulgaris
Clay, pure, see alumina
Cleavers
Clematis erecta
Clover sweet
Club moss
Cobalt
Cobra di capello
Coca
Coccionella septempunctata
Cocculus indicus
Coccus cacti
Cochineal
Cochlearia armoracea
rosebay
Comocladia dentata
111
Cinnamon
tosta
Coffee
Cinicin
Cinnamomum Zeylanicum
liver oil
Codein
78-106
139
199
108
108
108
108
108
102
109
109
109
109
110
109
122
122
65
56
138
241
198
110
233
116
florida
sericea
Corrosive chloride of mercury

"
sublimate
Corydalis formosa
Cotton plant
Cotyledon umbilicus
Cowbane
Cowhage
Cowitch
139 Cow parsnip

105 Cowslip, American
174 Crab, the
105 Cranesbill, wild
105 Creeping buttercup
'"
crowfoot
190
106 Creosote
106 Crocus sativus
106 Cross wort
107 Crotalus horridus
''
cascavella
107
107 Croton elutheria
111
111
111
111
112
229
112
112
117
136
123
112
113
249
113
113
226
181
181
114
143
114
102
122
122
149
84
171
142
219
218
167
114
141
115
115
91
270
INDEX.
Croton tiglium
115
116
116
217
218
219
219
52
Crotonic acid
Crotonin
Crowfoot acrid
''
bulbous
^*
celery
**
creeping
Crude antimony
Cryptopia, see opium
Cuban physic nut
Cubeba
Cubebs
officinalis
Cuckoo-pint
Culver's physic
Culver's root
Cundurango
Cuprum
''
"
**
aceticum
ammonio-sulphuricum
arsenitum
carbonicum
"
"
muriaticum
"
nitricum
"
sulphuricum
Curare
Cyanhydric acid
Cyanide of mercury
"
*'
chinin
''
potassium
''
quinia
" silver
''
zinc
Cyanuret of mercury
"
" potassium
Cyclamen Europseum
Cypress spurge
Cypripedium pubescens
Cytisus laburnum
Daisy, the
Dandelion
metel
stramonium
nettle
Deadly nightshade
Deer berry
Deer wort
Delphinine
Delphinium staphysagria
Delphinius Amazonicus
Devil's bit
Dichloride of iron
oil
Epigsea repens
Epilobium palustre
121
121
121
121
121
chloride 183
122
199
Dolichos pruriens
Dolphin, the
Dorema ammoniacum
Doryphora decem-lineata
Double spruce
Dracontium
Dragon arum
Dropurater
Drosera rotundif olia
Dulcamara
Dyer's greenweed
122
64
180
113-222
122
120
43
122
34
153
63
198
123
123
141
E
Elaps corallinus
Elaterium
Elsesis guineensis
common
Elder,
"
Europseus
Elecampane
Epsom
salts
Equisetum hymale
Ergot of
''
''
com
rye
Ergotine
Erigeron canadense
72 Eriodyction Califomicum
178
148
134
Dead
ferox
Dippel's
162
119
130
119
167
Deutoxide of manganese
"
"
Dioscorea villosa
181
121
*'
Dimercurammonium
Dogwood
Derris pinnate
"
mezereum
Darnel grass
Datura arborea
Digitaline
Digitalis purpurea
Digitoxine
116
63
170
170
116
117
117
117
117
118
118
118
118
118
151
181
98
162
98
57
254
Dermatium petrseum
indica
fraxinella
Dirca palustris
158 Dog'sbane, spreading
115 Dog's mercury
243
120
185
173
120
120
120
240
169
72
140
128
239
239
120
120
Daphne
Dictamnus albus
Eryngeum aquaticum
"
maritimum
Erythroxylon coca
Essence ae Mirabane
Ether sulphuric
" nitric
nitritum
'J
''
nitrous
Ethyl nitrite
Eucalyptus globulus
Eugenia jambos
Euonymus atropurpureus
Europseus
'
Eupatorium aromaticum
*'
perfoliatum
purpureum
Euphorbia amygdaloides
''
"
"
corallata
cyparissias
hypericifolia
123
124
124
226
227
155
124
125
174
125
249
231
125
125
126
126
126
106
73
126
127
127
127
127
127
128
128
128
128
129
129
130
130
130
130
INDEX.
271
Euphorbium oflScinarum
130 Fly agaric
Euphrasia
131
131
officinalis
Eupion
Evening primrose
Eyebright
Fly honeysuckle
Foeniculum vulgare
65
37
137
198 Foal's foot

131 Fool's parsley
Formic acid
Formica rufa
Foxglove, purple
Fagopyrum esculentum
Fagus sylvatica
False acacia
"
angustura
"
unicorn
"
valerian
Fel tauri
131
132
233
77
148
123
207
133
Ferric acetate
133
Ferrous carbonate
''
134
iodide
lactate
134
"
134
chloride
162
Ferro-cyanide of potassium
132
Ferrum
"
aceticum
133
"
arseniatum
133
"
carbonicum
133
"
iodidum
134
"
lacticum
134
"
magneticum
134
"
muriaticum
134
""
phosphoricum
135
"
peroxidum
135
"
pyrophosphaticum
135
*'
redactum
335
"
sulphuricum
136
Ferula assafcetida
64
''
glauca
136
Fetid buckeye
37
"
goosefoot
96
''
hellebore
148
95-217
Feverfew
Fever root
248
" tree
127
" wort
248
Field
"
jessamine
" Sorrel
Figwort
Filix
mas
Fine-leaved water-dropwort
Flammula jovis
Flax purging
Fleabane
Flesh-colored asclepias
"
"
lobelia (see lobe-
141
224
230
136
207
105
171
125
66
lia cardinalis
Flint
Flowering spurge
Fluoric acid
Fluoride of lime
Foxlung
234
130
151
82
Fucus
vesiculosis
Fulminating gold
Funf kirchen pit

Fungus ovatus
137
121
216
138
Fragraria vesca
Fraxinella
Fraxinus Americanus
Frazera Caroliniensis
Fringe tree
132 Frostwort
Felonwood
Fennel
37
173
137
coal
121
139
138
99
104
139
69
51
89
G
Gadus morrhuae
Galium aparine
139
139
140
Gallic acid
140
Gamboge
49
Garden angelica
''
37
hemlock
209
Garget
40
Garlic
140
Gaultheria procumbens
141
Gelsemium sempervirens
141
Genista tinctoria
141
Gentiana cruciata
142
lutea
142
Geraneum maculatum
Germander
244
142
Geum rivale
255
Ginger
142
Ginseng
208
Glacial phosphoric acid
194
Glauber's salt
143
Glonoine
260
Glycerine
143
Gnaphalium polycephalum
68
Gold
" thread
179
245
Golden alexander
"
flowered rhododendron 221
"
232
ragwort
238
Golden rod
150
seal
'
232
senecio
"
sulphuret of antimony 53
116
Gonolobus cundurango
139
Goose grass
143
Gossypium herbaceum
145
Gourganes
144
Granatum
144
Graphites
144
Gratiola officinalis
129
Gravel root
95
Great celandine
INDEX.
272
Green hellebore
Green iodide of mercury
2^50
Greenokite
Green
"
osier
tea
''
vitriol
"
weed
Greenweed, dyer's
Gros feveier
Ground lily
Guaco
Guaiacum oflficinale
Guarana
Guaroea trichiloides
Gum ammoniac
euphorbium
''
Gummi
euttse
Gymnocladus canadensis
Gypsum
Gyquerioba
H
Hahnemann's
Hairy
soluble
mercury
yam
Hamamelis
virginica
Hsematoxvlon campechianum
Hashheesh
Hazelwort
Heal all
Heart's-ease
Hecla lava
Hedeoma pulegeoides
Hedge hyssop
Hedysarum ildefonsiatum
Helianthus anhuus
Heliotrope
Heliotropium Peruvianum
Hellebore, black
fetid
green
white
Helleborus foetidus
"
niger
Helonias dioica
officinalis
Hemlock
"
"
spruce
water drop wort
Hemp
Indian
white Indian
Henbane
Hepar sulphuris
Hepar sulphuris calcarea
Hepatica triloba
Heracleum sphondylium
Britaunica
Herb Christopher
''
Paris
Herba sardoa
Hippocastanum vulgare
182 Hippomanes mancinella

79 Hog bean
" weed
113
245 Holly
136 Honey bee virus
141 Honeysuckle
141 Hops
145 Hop tree
" hornbeam
247
110 Horse balm
" chestnut
145
" radish
204
'^
tail
145
43 Houseleek
"
small
130
140 Humulus lupulus
145 Huntsman's cap
84 Hura Braziliensis
236 Hydrastia
183
122
146
146
86
65
109
252
146
147
144
147
147
148
148
148
148
250
250
148
148
148
225
111
33
198
87
86
86
152
149, 165
149
149
149
224
36
204
Hickory
219
90
Hina
170
176
152
149
164
53
173
173
216
202
193
36
107
125
231
231
173
228
150
150
Hydrastin
150
Hydrastis canadensis
150
Hydrated teroxide of bismuth 74
"
oxide of phenol
88
Hydrate of chloral
99
Hydride of phenyl
73
'"
" nitrate of phenyl
73
"
" terchloracetyl
99
Hydrochloric acid
188
Hydrocotyle Asiatica
150
Hydrocyanic acid
151
Hydrofluoric acid
151
Hydrogen cyanide
151
Hydrophobine
151
Hydrophyllum virginicum
151
Hyoscyamia
152
Hyoscyamin
152
Hyoscyamus niger
152
Hypericum perforatum
152
Hypermanganate of potassiuml63
Hypochlorite of potassa
162
Hypophosphite of chinin
98
" lime
82
"
" potassium 162
''
" quinia
98
Hypophyllum
153
Iberis
amara
Ictodes foetidus
Ignatia amara
Ilex opaca
Illicium anisatum
Imbiri
Imperatoria astruthium
Impure sulphide of calcium
Indian balm
"
cockle
"
"
"
"
daphne
datura
ginger
hemp
153
153
153
154
154
86
154
149
247
106
120
120
65
86
INDEX.
hemp American
Indian
55
260
172
64
232
155
155
155
262
261
55
poke root
''
"
"
"
tobacco
turnip
uncum
Indigo
Indigofera tinctoria
Indium
Inhalations
Injections
Inula helenium
Iodide of arsenic
''
''
barium
''
calcium
" formyle
" iron
''
''
''
" lime
"
''
''
" potassium
11
"
" sodium
" zinc
''
mercury
silver
Iodine
lodoformum
Ipecacuanha
Ipomea purga
Iris florentina
''
versicolor
Iron
'
by hydrogen
Iron wood
Italian arum
Ivy, american
Ivy poison
61
171
Jalapa
Jamaica dog weed

Jamestown weed
officinale
Jatamansi
J itropha
Jatropha curcas
Jessiimine yellow
Juglans cinerea
''
regia
eif usus
''
bromidum
162
162
"
ferrocyanidum
hypophosphitum
iodidum
"
permanganicum
"
nitricum
oxalicum
''
''
"
"
"
"
phosphoricum
picricum
sulphidum
sulphuricum
tartaricum
160,
163
163
163
164
164
164
165
165
165
165
166
166
166
166
210
145
166
206
171
61
166
167
166
220
166
167
168
168
Lachnanthes tinctoria
168
Lactate of iron
Lactic acid
bird
134
168
16
119
106
Lamium album
161
Lambkill
Lambsquarter
166
247
89
224
170
169
169
75
169
166
170
196
103
229
212
212
213
213
213
Lactuca virosa
Ladies' slipper
Lady
Lampblack
Lapathum acutum
Lapidium bonariense
Lapis albus
Lappa major
Larch fungus
Lathyrus sativus
Laurel mountain
Laurocerasus
225 Laughing gas
160 Laurus cinnamomum
"
K
bichromicum
162
""
157
158
93
96
141
258
159
159
159
159
Jerusalem oak
''
(hypo)chloritum
252
64
157
211
240
158
241
!il
Jersey tea
Kali aceticum
''
arsenitum
hydrobromicum
"
Laburnum
Jack- in-the-pulpit
Juniper
Juniperus communis
''
sabina
"
virginiana
''
161
161
161
Lacerta agilis
157 Lachesis trigonacephalus
Jaborandi
Jacaranda caroba
Jacea
Juncus
Kali carbon icum

'
chloricum
83
''
155
" telluricum
134
83 Kalmia latifolia
182 Kaolin
163 Karaca
58 Katipo
192 Kava kava
254 Kentucky coffee tree
155 Keroselene
155 Kidney bean
156 King crab
157 King's yellow
156 Kino australiense
157 Koosso
132 Kopi tree
135 Krameria triandra
202 Kreasotum
202
63-154
Tj
^^
222
Jasminum
273
sassafras
Lead
160
160
16H
IIO
''
acetate
''
carbonate
"
chromate
''
iodide
INDEX.
274
Leatherwood
Ledum
122 Magnolia glauca

176
170 Maize smut
249
231 Malacca bean
48
105 Male fern
136
243 Mancinella
176
59 Mandioca
91
170 Madragora officinarum
176
170 Mandrake
176
"
171
American
213
252 Manganum aceticum
177
''
168
carbonicum
877
''
202
177
dichloride
"
143
muriaticum
177
''
232
oxydatum nativum 178
145 Marigold
84
171 Marjoram, sweet
201
197 Marsh crowfoot
219
"
196
epilobium
125
"
171
marigold
17
"
246
tea
170
"
82
trefoil
180
palustre
Leek
Lemon
Leontodon taraxicum
Leopard's bane
Lepidium bonariense
Leptandra virginica
Leptandrin
Lesser periwinkle
Lettuce poisonous
Leverwood
Life everlasting
''
root
Lionum
vitse
Lilium tigrinum
Lily, white pond
''
yellow pond
'
tiger
tree
Lime
"
water
Limulus Cyclops
Liniments
171
Marsh mallow
259 Martinique viper

76
Linaria vulgaris
171 Masterwort
154
178
Linum catharticum
171 Milte
Lion's foot
189 Matricaria chamomilla
95
Liquor ammonia
44 May apple
213
Lithium carbonicum
172 Meadow anemone
216
"
Liverwort
149
parsnip
245
Liver of sulphur
165
saffron
109
Lizard
168 Meconine
178
134 Medusa
Loadstone
. 178
Locust tree
223 Melaleuca cajaputum (see Cajablue
172
putum)
172 Melastoma akermani
177
Lobelia cardinalis
172 Melilotus officinalis
179
inflata
''
172 Menispermum canadense
179
syphilitica
Logwood
146 Mentha piperita
179
"
173
pulegium
Lolium temulentum
179
102 Menganthes trifolip.ta
180
Long-leaved water-hemlock
172 Mephites putorius
Lonicera xylosteum
180
Lords and ladies
63 Mercuralis perennis
180
180
Lotions
260 Mercurius aceticus
''
182
174
biniodidus
Love apple
"
181
Lunar caustic
bromidum
58
'"
181
Lungwort
corrosivus
239
""
181
173
cyanatus
Lupulin
"
181
Lycoperdon globosum (see Bocyanidus
181
vista)
dulcis
"
182
174
Lycopersicum
iodidum flavus
182
ruber
Lycopodium clavatum
174
"
182
Lycopus virginicus
174
methylenus
182
nitritus
"
133
precipitatus albus
Macrotm
102
18s
ruber
Macrotys racemosa
102
"
182
protoiodatus
''
Magnesia alba
174
183
solubilis Hahn.
Magnesium carbonicum
174
"
184
sulphidum sulph
"
muriaticum
175
"
184
sulpho-cyanidum
"
175
phosphoricum
"
sulphuricus flavus 184
"
sulphuricum
175
"
184
vivus
-
INDEX.
Mercury of the poor
JVfethene chloride
Methide of mercury
Methoxyl methane
Methylenum bichloridum
Methyl ether
Methyl-ethyl-ether
Mexican wormseed
Mezereum
Mild chloride of mercury
Milk parsley
Milk thistle
Milk weed
Millefolium
Mimosa humilis
Mistletoe
Mitchella repens
Molly-puff (see Bovista)
Momordica balsamis
'"
elaterium
Monobromate of camphor
Monoxide of mercury
Moon seed
Moorgrass
Moose wood
Morning glory
Morphine
Morphium aceticuni
muriaticum
sulphuricum
"
Moschatus
Moschus moschiferous
Mountain arnica
Mountain laurel
Mucuna pruriens
Mugwort
Mug wort of Judea

Mullein
Murex purpurea
Muriate of hydrastin
Muriatic acid
Musa sapientium
Musk
Musk
Musk
deer
plant
root
Mussel, the
Mygale avicularia
Myrica cerifera
Myristica
officinalis
203
185
182
185
185
185
185
"
Naja
serpentaria
tripudians
Naphthaline
Narcissus poeticus
Narceinum
Narcotinum
Narthex assafoetida
Natrum arsenicatum
''
"
arsenicosum
arsenicum
Natrum arsenitum
''
bromidum
"
"
"
"
"
"
96
185
carbonicum
iodatum
iodidum
muriaticum
nitricum
phosphoricum
'"
181
"
130
90
66
35
185
253
185
"
''
"
193
194
194
194
194
114
198
169
177
194
194
195
194
195
241
195
196
79
72
286
46
118
182
163
221
58
193
248
163
195
196
127
47
73
196
148
196
196
196
127
196
196
196
195
197
197
197
196
197
Nereum oleander
Nettle dead
Nettle sea
250
188
150
188
188
187
33
241
187
189
189
197
carbonicum
sulphuricum
''
Nickel
Nicotia
Nicotianum tabacum
Nicotinum
Nigella sativa
Night blooming cereus

Nightshade, deadly
Nipple nightshade
Nitrate of ammonia
copper
"
mercury
"
potassa
rhodium
''
silver
"
sodium
"
uranium
Nitre
Nitri dulcis spiritus
Nitric acid
Nitric etlier
Nitrite of amyl
Nitro-benzole
Nitrogenium oxygenatum
Nitro-glycerine
''
hydrochloricum acid
''
muriatic acid
Nitrogenium oxidum
Nitrous ether
oxide
Nuphar
lutea
Nutmeg
189
189
190
190
190
190
191
64
191
191
191
"
flower
Nux
moschata
"
"
myristica
vomica
Nymphae. lutea
"
192
192
192
183
193
193
salicylicum
Navelwort
"
191
191
sulphovinicum
sulphitum
sulphuratum
sulphuricum
Niccolum
186
124
85
183
179
128
122
112
186
187
187
187
33
187
59
166
122
62
108
N
Nabulus albus
275
odorata
Oak, poison
Ocinum canum
CEnanthe crocata
222
198
198
INDEX.
276
CEnothera biennis
Oil of sandalwood
"
''
vitriol
Oil nut
Old
man
Oleander
Ointments
Oleum animale
"
jecoris asselli
morrhuse
santalum
^'
''
Onion
sea
Oniscus asellus
''
Opium
Opoponax chironium
Opuntia vulgaris
Orange
root
Origanum marjorana
Orpiment
Orris root
Osier
Osmium
Ostrya virginica
Oxalate of cereum
" lime
Oxalic acid
Ox
gall
Oxide of antimony
"
"
''
''
" arsenic
" bismuth
" camphene
" ethyl
''
iron
''
iron, black
Oxymels
Pseonia officinalis
Palladium
Palm tree
Palma christi
Palmated larkspur
Panacea
Pansy
Papal cross spider
Papaverin
Papaver somniferum
Paraguay tea
Pareira brava
Paris green
''
quadrifolia
Parsley
fool's
milk
Parsnip
Partridge berry
Pasque flower
198
199
241
158
62
198
258
199
169
199
199
40
238
200
200
201
201
105
150
201
Passiflora incarnata
203^
Pastinaca
201
204
201
204
204
205
'
sativa
"
opoponax
Paullinia pinnata
sorbilis
Peach
Pearl ash (see kali carb)
Pennsylvania sumac
Pennyroyal
Pennywort
"
thick-leaved
Penthorum sedoides
205
Pepper, black
210
cayenne
red
"
tree
Pepsin
20^
Perchloride of formyl
185
163
178
159
97
Permanganate of potassium
Peroxide of manganese
61
Persian walnut
Peruvian bark
Persica vulgaris
94 Petiveria tetandra
Petroleum
Petroselinum
Phallus impudicus
Phaseolus vulgaris
Phellandrium aquaticum
Phenic acid
Phenol
83
202
132
52
62
74
84
126
135
134
261
ternitrate
Phenylic acid
"
alcohol
Phosphate of ammonia
''
" iron
" lime
''
" magnesia
"
202
'' potassium
203
124
223
239
203
252
56
200
200
178
203
204
206
37
130
204
140, 186
216
88
88
209
88
88
46
saxifraga
Pimpernel, scarlet
48
''
''
silver
''
''
sodium
Phosphinum
205
206
206
206
206
206
307
135
83
175
164
48
193
208
208
208
207
208
158
208
209
209
209
164
209
157
157
209
210
Phosphine
87
87
230
179
Peppermint
156
133-226
202
202
221
179
114
150
Phosphoric acid
Phosphorus
Physalia pelagica
Physic nut, Cuban
Physostigma venosum
Phytolacca decandra
Phytolaccin
Picric acid
Picrate of potassium
Pigeon berry
Pilocarpinum (pilocarpia).
Pilocarpus pinnatus
Pimenta
officinalis
INDEX.
Pink
root
Pinus lambertiana
"
sylvestris
Piper methysticum
"
nigrinum
Pipsissawa
Pirchurin
Plantago major
Plantanin
Platinum
chloridum
''
muriaticum
Plumbago
littoralis
Plumbum
aceticum
"
carbonicum
iodidum
Poet's narcissus
Podalyria tinctoria
Podophyllin
Podophyllum pelt;itum
Poison ash
nut
oak
sumac
weed
Poke weed
Polar plant
Polygala senega
hydropiper
officinalis
pericola
Pond
white
''
yellow
Poor man's weather glass
Poplar
lily,
Poppy
Populus tremuloides
Porcelain clay
Portuguese man of war

Potassium chlorate
''
sulphuratum
Potato
Potato bug
Pothos foetidus (ictodes)
Preparation ot drugs
Prescriptions
Prickly ash
pear
Prince's pine
Propylamine
Psoricum
70 Pyrethrum parthenium
213 Pyrolusite
213 Pyrophosphate of iron
222
222
222 Quassia amara
197 Queen of the meadow
222 Queen's delight
''
222
root
253 Quicksilver
168 Quinidine
209 Quinine
233 Quitel
232
214
214 Radish
75 Radish, black Spanish
214 Ragwort (see Senecio)
144 Rana bufo
197 Rangoon oil
196 Ranunculus acris
'
48
bulbosus
214
flammula
''
200
glacialis
214
"
repens
"
166
reptans
''
208
scleratus
76
216
216
217
216
171
158
142
121
217
178
135
217
129
239
239
184
99
98
170
Polygonum punctatum
Pomegranite
Protoxide of carbon
Protiodide of mercury
Protoxide of nitrogen
Prunus laurocerasus
"
padus
''
spinosa
Prussic acid
Poisonous lettuce
Polyporus
210
210
215
75
215
89
182
196
170
215
215
151
216
216
227
76
elder
ivy
'
Prinos verticellatus
Procession moth
Ptelea trifoliata
212 Puccoon
212 Puff ball
''
212
wart (see Bovista)
24 Puka puka
66 Pulmo vulpis
144 Pulsatilla nigricans
"
21s
Nuttalliana
"
212
pratensis
212 Purging flax
212
nut
212 Purple avens
190
foxglove
tetrachloiide
Plants, collecting,
Pleurisy root
''
237
210
210
97
211
211
229
211
211
211
Piscidia erythrina
Pitcher plant
277
161
165
237
122
153
27
30
253
201
97
Raphanus
sestiv
sativus
Ratany
Rattlesnake
Brazilian
root
Rattleweed
Realgar
Red ant
''
cedar
220
220
78
206
217
218
218
218
219
218
219
220
220
220
115
115
189
102
62
137
16
INDEX.
278
Ked
247 Sanguinaria canadensis

112 Santonic acid
182 Santonine
226 Saponin
clover
" coral
" iodi le of mercury
"
"
osier
oxide of mercury (see Merc

p. r.)
Red
183
precipitate
root
''
93,168,227
220
Rhabarbarum
Rhatauia Peruviana
Rhamnus
catharticus
frangula
Rheum palmatum
Rhodium oxydatum nitricum
Rhododendron chrysanthum
Rhubarb
Rhus glabra
radicans
''
"
toxicodendron
"
venenata
"
vernix
Ricinus communis
Ribwort
Roach, the
Roasted sponge
Robinia pseudo-acacia
Rock
'"
oil
rose
Roman chamomile
Rosemarin
Rosemarinus
Rosemary
Rosebay
"
"
laurel
colored silkweed
Rosin weed
Rough parsnip
Round leafed dogwood
''
Rumex
"
"
"
"'
sundew
acetosa
acetosella
crispus
obtusifolium
Rush soft
Rue
Ruta graveolens
220
219
219
220
221
221
220
221
222
222
222
223
223
211
75
237
223
206
104
50
223
223
223
198
198
198
233
201
113
123
Sabadilla
Sabina
Saffron
Sal-ammoniac
Salicon
Salicylic acid
Salicylate of soda
Salicin
Salix purpurea
Saltpetre
Salt of sorrel
"
'' lemons
Sambucus niger
225
225
114
45
225
225
193
225
226
163
164
164, 202
227
228-
228
229
Saunders
Satween
Savine
199*
41
Sarsaparilla officinale
225
229
Saxifrage
2I0>
Scammonium
229
48
Scarlet pimperel
Schinus molle
Scheele's green
230J
maritima
Scilla
17
238
230
Scolopendra
Scotch fir
Scouring rush
Scrof ularia nodosa
Skullcap
210-
Scutelaria laterifolia
125
230
230
230
Sea holly
126>
" kelp
" nettle
" onion
" water
" wrack
Secale cornutum
139
178.
238
56*
Sedinha
Selenium
Selenite
Semicarpus anacardium
Sempervivum tectorum
Seneca snakeroot
Senecio aureus
139
231
231
231
84
48
231
232
232:
232
232
232
232
gracilis
Sensitive plant
185
Sepia actopus
succus
i'
Serpentaria
Sesqui carbonate of
283.
233
233
ammonia 44
Sheep sorrel
Shellbark
Shepherd's purse
228
Sarracenia purpurea
Sassafras officinale
Senecin
Senega
224 Senna alexandrina
224
224
224
159
224
224
227
228-
Shrubby
trefoil
Side saddle flower

Silex
Silicate of aluminium
Silicea
Silico-fluoride of calcium
224
90
246>
216
233
234
166
234
169
Silkweed
6&
Silver
57
57
"
"
"
ammonio-chlor.
cyanide
67
iodide
58.
leaf
57
"
nitrate
68.
''
INDEX.
Silver phosphate
Silphium lanciniatum
Sium
"
latifolium
tersulphide of
165
153
180
215
195
218
214
229
221
94
96
59
102
59
126
233
128
232
171
146
159
Skunk cabbage
"
Sloe
the
Small fennel flower

''
spear wort
Smartweed
Smilax
officinale
Smooth sumac
Snake cactus
Snakehead
Snakeroot
black
''
Brazil
button
"'
Virginia
*'
white
Snake wort
Snapdragon
Snapping hazelnut
Soft rush
Solan in
Solanum arrebentia
"
l^-copersicum
mammosum
''
maniacum
(see Bell.
and Stram.)
nigrum
''
"
oleoraceum
pseudocapsicum
''
59
234
235
"
tuberosum
Solanum tuber segrotans
So] id ago virgaurea
Soluble tartar
Solvents
Sprays
Spruce, black
"
double
''
hemlock
Spurge
"
"
flowering
cypress
''
olive
Spurred rye
Squaw
root
weed
(see Senecio)
Squilla maritima
Squills
St. Mary's thistle

Stachys recta
Staggerweed
Stannum
Staphysagria
Star anise seed
" flsh
auratum
nigrum
(see Antim crudum)
236 Sticta pulmonaria
239
236
236
237
237
238
165
22
Stinging nettle
Stillingia sylvatica
Stramonium
Strawberry
Strong-scented lettuce
Strontium
Strontium carbonate
Strychnia
Strychnine
Spiranthes autumnalis
i38
fly
"
pellitory
Spatter dock
Spearwort
Speedwell
Spider, curacoa
papal cross
"
scinencia
Spigelia anthelmintica
''
Spirit
weed
Spirol
Spongia tosta
Spoonwood
Spiritus Mendereri
Spirits of
wine
Spotted alder
168
88
237
166
43
39
146
248
239
Stinkhorn
Stonecrop
Stoneroot
Spikenard
Spanish black radish
238
238
124
153
152
90
238
114
238
239
154
67
38
148
239
52
53
Squirting cucumber
St. Ignatius' bean
St. John's wort
224
62
119
220
87 Strychnios nux vomica
217 Subacetate of mercury
196 Subnitrate of bismuth
218 Succory
2ol Sugar pine
245 Sugar of lead
^'
''
milk
56
56 Sulphate of atropia
"
'' chmin
237
"
'' copper
56
Southernwood
Sowbread
262
34
34
33
130
130
130
186
231
92
" grass
" wort
235
235 Stavesacre
174 Stibium
236
sulphuratum
"
''
Sophora tinctoria (seeBaptisia)

Sorrel
279
*'
" iron
lime
" magnesia
''
''
"
''
''
"
"
"
"
"
"
''
morphia
nickel
potassium
quinine
sodium
'
205
109
239
138
168
240
240
240
240
197
180
74
101
210
212
24
68
98
118
136
84
175
187
195
165
98
194
INDEX,
280
cadmium
Sulphide of
'*
*'
''
calcium
gold
"
*' mercury
"
" potassa
Sulphite of sodium
Sulpho-cyanide of mercury
Sulphur
"
hydrogenisatum
Sulphuret of antimony
Sulphuretted potash
Sulphuric acid
ether
Sumac
"
"
"
upland
''
Thornapple
Thoroughwort
Thuja occidentalis
Tiger
Tinctures
Titanium
Toad
"
"
flax
South American
Tobacco
Tomato
Tongo
222
221
swamp
222 Tonquin bean
Swamp dogwood
hellebore
milkweed
"
sumac
Sweet marjoram
*'
spirits of nitre
"
"
vernal grass
water
Symphitum
lily
oflScinalis
T
Tabacum
Tag alder
Tamus communis
Tanacetum vulgare
Tannin
Tansy
Tapioca
Tarantula
Taraxicum
Tartar emetic
Tartrate of antimony and
tassa
Tartrate of potassa
Taxus baccata
Tea, green
Telluriate of potassium
Tellurium
Terebinthina
Tetrachloride of carbon
Tetradymite
Teucrium
Thallium
Thaspium aureum
Thea Chinensis
viridis
Theobroma cacao
Theridion currassavicum
Thick-leaved pennywort
Thistle blessed
"
St. Mary's
241
147
216
250
66
222
201
127
Toothache tree
Toot berry
Trachinus
Trailing arbutus
Treatment of drug*
Tree of heaven
Trefoil, shrubby
Trichloride of gold (terchl.)

Trifolium pratense
"
197
repens
242 Trillin
Trillium pendulum
51
242
40
242
243
243
243
91
245
239
129
246
171
lily
Tiglium officinalis
Tilia Europseus
Tin
Tinctura kali acris sine
smooth
Sunflower
"
Thlaspi bursa pastoris
poison
Sumbul
"
79
149
69
103
165
194
184
240
241
52
165
241
126
221-2
241
Trimethylamine
Triosteum perfoliatum
Trituration
True love
Tuber root (see Colchicum)
Tupa kihi
Turkey corn
pea
242 Turpeth mineral

243 Turpentine
53 Turtle head
Tussilago petasites
po53
165
243 Uncum
245 Unicorn plant
165 Upland sumac
244 Upright virgin's bower
244 Uranium nitricum
89 Urethral injections
244 Urolithin
244 Urtica dioica
''
minor
245
''
urens
245
245 Ustilago madis
245 Uva ursi
78
\T
V
245
150 Vaginal injections
90 Valerian
90 Valeriana officinalis
115
246
238
93
28
447
78
171
78
242
174
247
247
253
113
247
J24
26
38
216
69
247
247
247
247
215
248
24-27
204
113
114
114
184
244
96
248
232
148
221
105
248
262
248
248
248
248
249
249
261
249
249
281
IKDEX.
Valerianate of zinc
Varnish
Vegetable charcoal
tree
Vehicles used in pharmacy

Veratrin
Veratrum album
sabadilla
viride
Verbascum thapsis
Verbena
officinalis
Vermillion
Vernal grass, sweet
Veronica officinalis
Vervain
Viti vayr
Vetiver
Viburnin, (see viburnum)
Viburnum
epulis
"
prunifoliatum
Vinca minor
Viola odorata
"
tricolor
Violet
Vipera redi
torva
Virginia creeper
snakeroot
"
stonecrop
"
water leaf
Viscum album
Vitriolated tartar
Vitex agnus castus
"
ventriculate
Vomacine
Wafer ash
robin, (see
250
251
251
103
51
251
251
48
48
251
251
232
'
fennel
"
"
"
hemlock
pepper
Wax berry
myrtle
Weather glass
White ash
''
arsenic
"
"
bryony
flag
''
hellebore
"
"
Indian hemp
jessamine
''
lead
''
lettuce
''
passion flower
''
pond
"
"
poplar
lily
poppy
"
root
"
snakeroot
''
Wild
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
walnut
cranesbill
ginger
indigo, (see Baptisia)
ipecac
lemon
nard
parsnip
pine
'"
rosemary
''
yam
Willow, purple
Wind
''
flower
root
Wingseed
Winter berry
''
bloom
"
green
248
213
65
204
210
170
122
226
216
66
216
215
146
140, 252
146
Wourari
Wyethia helenoides
174
119
237
96
119
253
X
Xanthoxylin
77
71
35
Cina)
151
253
165
38
Xanthoxylum fraxineum
253
253
Y
114
214
142
198
207
102
American
''
183
66
128
158
142
65
White precipitate
252 Witch hazel

252 Witherite
252 Wolf's bane
252 Wolf's-foot
253 VVoorari
46 Worm grass
''
233
seed
"
205
wood of Judaea (see
arum mac)
Wall pennywort
"
pepper
Water avens
"
dropwort
"
88
22
250
250
225
250
216
128
Wahoo
Wake
255
222
Yam,
122
wild
Yarrow
Yaw root
Yellow dock
"
"
'^
'
101
gentian
jessamine
iodide of mercury
ladies' slipper
moccasin
pond
214
''
lily
Prussia te of potash
sulphate of mercury
35
239
224
142
141
182
119
119
196
162
184
53
217
126
243
189
"
189
"
sulphuret of antimony
49
weed
139
Yerba santa
60
ew tree
77
Z
156
254
250 Zinc
254
Zincum
66
"
254
acetic iim
158
"
254
cyanidum
213
"
254
iodium
189
"
254
muriaticum
203
"
254
valerianicum
197
255
214 Zingiber officinale
245-256
200 Zizea aurea
NEW
EDITION.
Lectures on the
MEDICAL AND SURGICAL
Women
Diseases of
BY
LUDLAM,
K.
M. D.,
PROFESSOR OF THE MEDICAL AND SURGICAL DISEASES OF WOMEN^

OBSTETRICS, AND CLINICAL MIDWIFERY, IN HAHNEMANN
MEDICAL COLLEGE AND HOSPITAL, CHICAGO.
New and
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What
of theory
Hence,
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and shadows
possess this faculty
It is
His art of putting things
book
is
written
in
Few
year's
profit
both
felicitous
way
to
show
clinical teachers-
Professor Ludlam.
and
the style which the classic
deservedly popular. B. H.
many
not given to every one to paint a
higher degree than

is
con-
day in
and might well be read with
in their true colors.
in a
it
will be gladly wel-
picture, nor for every physician to report a case in a

its lights
in
being thoroughly,
it
teachings are the result of
of our faith,
Bound
scientific research of the
observation and bedside experience.
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Ready.
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A PRACTICAL TREATISE
ON THE
DISEASES
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I NFANTS
AND C HILDREN
WITH THEIR
HOMCEOPATHIC TREATMENT.
BY
T. C.
ASSISTED
Volume
Duncan, M.
D.,
BY SEVEHAL PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS.
work ready. It includes

Parts I, II and III, Index and Contents, making
a complete and compact book of about 4.50 pages.
I
of this valuable
" It is a clear and methodic treatise on the diseases of childhood,

with their Homoeopathic treatment." /nêr- Ocean.
" Like this work. It goes to the bottom of every subject.
a strong point in its favor with me."/. Marline Kershaw.
This
is
" It is a practical treatise on the diseases incident to infancy, which

every mother would lind it of interest to study, for its lessons would
save them oceans of worry and anxiety." West End Advocate.
" I have looked over Part I of Children's Diseases, etc. Think
highly of it. When finished it will supply a want in Homoeopathic
Walter D. Stillman.
literature."
''
This work bears evidence of a conscientious attempt to edit and
bring together from many sources, valuable knowledge on the subject
of which it treats. The anatomists, physiologists, and pathologists
have been put under contribution to good effect, and so far as concerns what they liave given, the work certainly would profit any student or physician. The remarks devoted to the hygiene of childhood
are many of them excellent." Daily JS'ews.
"After many years of careful preparation, we receive at last the

installment of this work, and we thank our good Duncan for the
treat.
Part I gives evidence of a vast amount of thought and labor.
Jahr, Hartman, and Teste, our former guides in the treatment of
infantile diseases, are out of print, and Duncan's text-book fills, therefore, a long-neglected want; and besides, it is the only Homoeopathic
book on diseases of children written upon a scientific basis. It ought
to have a large sale and become a household work with every physician of our school." North American Journal of Homoeopathy.
first
DUNCAN BROTHERS,
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and
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HOW TO
BE PLUMP.
OR-
TALKS ON PHYSIOLOGICAL FEEDING,

BY
DUNCAN, M.
T. C.
D.,
Editor of the united states :medical investigator, author

diseases of infants and children, with their
homceopathic treatment, etc.
.
A million or two will buy if thej' have faith in it. Chicago Post.
The man
o** woman who is " thin as a rail" will find in this little book abundant
encouragement of becoming "as plump as a partridge." CTiicoflfo Evening Journal.
The author believes that many are wearing themselves out for lack of fat. He
when he saw how plump Mr. Moody had become, he could understand
his great physical endurance. F. M. C. A. Watchman.
states that
It gives full directions for attaining any given degree of plumpness.

By
following the instructions given, a lean female can prepare herself for "a fat
woman" in time for the coming fairs. Women thus have the means at their
disposal of becoming as fat as they desire. C/u'cofiio Times.
"
How to be
volume from the pen of Dr. T. C.

on physiological feeding, treating of
leanness as a cause of disease, and giving the importance of water and the value
of fat, as well as the necessity for starchy foods and sweets, in a very clear and
distinct manner. It gives some valuable tables concerning the composition of
food, and makes, on the whole, a little book which can be of great interest to everybody desiring health and happiness. Iwter-Ocean.
Duncan.
Plump,"
It contains
is
the
some
title
of a neat
little
sensible talks
In this country of leanness and angularity, to grow plump is certainly "a consummation devoutly to be wished ;" and it is plain that this writer " knows whereof he
affirms."
Everything he says commends itself at once to every thinking man,
only he will be sure to wonder that he never before thought of the inevitable
relation of the cause and effect in this regard.
The doctor holds that to be
naturally plump is one of the indices of health, and that he who achieves
the first, in the rational way he points out, will infallibly thereby secure the
latter. And everybody knows that to be healthy is to be happy, as a rule.
Saturday Evening Herald.
This is a book of sixty pages, full of practical information, with which every
one should be acquainted, but which cannot be found except in this work. The
book is written in the easy, graceful style characteristic of the author, and if the
directions in it are followed, that rotundity of form, vvhich is so desirable, may
easily be attained. Perhaps not enough stress is laid on worry as a result of disappointments, and the excessive mental exertion for which Americans are noted,
as a cause of leanness, but as a whole, the book is worth many times its price, and
will amply repay perusal. Pomeôj/'s Illustrated Democrat.
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iniiPT-sr
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^'^^'c^H^ciSSf^'''-'
N E W EDITION:
Surgical Diseases,
AND THEIR
HOMCEOPATHIC THERAPEUTICS.
THIRD EDITION-REWRITTEN, REVISED and ENLARGED
BY
LaU
J.
G.
GILCHRIST, M.
D.;
Lecturer on Surgical Therapeutics, Homoeopathic College. Michigan

University.
When
very
tills
little
on
book was
first
this subject in
was
number of
issued, nearly ten years aô, there
our literature.
But the
larj?e
cases of Surgical Diseases, from ulcers to tumor, reported cured, as

well as the recent additions to our therapeutic resources, render a new
eaition a pressing necessity.
Dr. Gilchrist, although a bold and skillful operator, is also an expert

He won a grand record in the University.
in Surgical Therapeutics.
To Dr. Duncan
cess as a lecturer
the class.
Nov.
Your friend Gilchrist has made a splendid
plain
and
practical,
suc-
he has become a favorite with

S. A. Jones, (Dean.)
15th, 1876.
When he withdrew, the Board of Regents adopted the following

very flattering resolution
Resolved. That in accepting the withdrawal of Dr. J. G. Gilchrist
from the lectureship of Homoeopathic Surgery, we desire to express
our appreciation of his faithful services and gentlemanly conduct,
and that we part with him with sincere wishes for his future success.
This new edition will be eminently practical, being based on his lee
tures, clinical and didactic, carefully written, and up to date at all
points. It is essentially a new work, and will be much appreciated by
the younger members of the profession.
DUNCAN BROTHERS,
Publishers,
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THE NURSE:
OR
Hints on the Care of the

^1
CHAULES
T.
HARRIS,
Sick.
A. M., M. D.
This work will fill a vacant field in our literature. Those who have
examined the MS. speak of it in these flattering terms
:
Ann Arbor,
Sir
Mich., July 29, 1878. C. T. Harris, M. I). Dear

The Nurse " with pleasure, and not
: I have read the MS. of "
without profit.
I hope it will find
way into print, because it is not written up

of the class of readers for whom it is designed.
I think the vein of homely, every day sense which pervades it, will
win for it a welcome from many a mother, who, while feeling her
need for some instruction in nursing, shrinks from the recondite
^ science
of an oat and out " doctor's book."
To be sure the exquisite felicity that makes the real nurse is nascitur
nonjit, but your little book will reinforce the divine instinct of true
motherhood, and a better nurse will be the outcome. And what a
its
beyond the capacity
'
boon
is
a good nurse
Let us frankly confess that very often our
unassuming nurse, for we know that our best

endeavors are often frustrated by God-cursed Sairy Gamps and Betsy
Priggs. Very truly yours,
Sam'l A. Jones, M. D.
Detroit, Mich., Aug. 6th, 1678. C. T. Harris, M. D.: Dear
Doctor. I cheerfully bear testimony to the value of your work on
'-'Nursing.'''' I have examined it in manuscript, and feel confident that
nurses will find it just what they need, and medical men will find it to
their interest to further its sale and distribution. Truly Yours,
J. G. Gilchrist, M. D.,
laurels belong to the
Lecturer on Surgery^ University of Michigan.
Detroit, Mich., Aug 25, 1878. C. T. Harris, A. M., M. D.My

Dear Doctor:! have read the MS. of ""The Nurse'''' with pleasure, and
I may add with profit also, and am glad to know that you have
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experience derived from years of observation in the sick room. Those
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from skillful and trained nurses; and they also know the increased
anxiety to which they are subiected by careless, uneducated and
xinskiliful nursing
How often have our best efforts miscarried by
incompetent nursing ? And how often too has skillful and careful
helped a doubtful case out of danger, while the Doctor received the
credit of restoring a very sick patient.
Its style is forcible and clear, admirably adapted to the non-professional reader for whom it is intended, and to ''Mothers, the Natural
Nurses," to whom it is addressed.
I predict for
it
great usefulness in
its
own
peculiar sphere,
and
wish you abundant success in your

uncultivated
field.
efforts to cultivate this hitherto

H. C. Allen, M. D.
Sincerely yours,
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I ff iti
AND ITS
HoMcEOPATHic Treatment
By
C. F.
PANELLI, M.
D.,
Naples, Italy.
Translated with Copious Additions, by Geo. E. Shipman, M.D.
Duncan Brothers
The Treatise of
Panelli on Typhoid Fever, which

have perused with the greatest satisfaction. It is not saying too much of the author, translator, and publishers of the
work, to state explicitly that they are entitled to the favorable consideration of the
entire Homoeopathic profession for this most valuable treatise. I had not finished
reading the introduction before I felt convinced of the author's ability to gis e such
a transcript of his observations as must redound to the credit of the strictest adherence to Homoeopathic principles in the treatment of all forms of Typhoid Fever,
Messrs.
you had the kindness
to place in
my hands.
His exaltation of the principle Similia Similibus, as well as his devotion to the
simple operations of nature, exhibit his competency as an observer of facts, which
must serve as the ground of reasoning. Unlike many modern practitioners Avho
profess to be Homoeopathists, the author exhibits no dissatisfaction with purely
Hahnemannian doctrines. He does not treat Typhoid fever simply by its name. He
individualizes, under the common name of Typhoid, the greatest variety of specific
conditions which requires specific treatment. "While he gives a very learned and
scientific view of the general nature of the disease, and the many names which different authors have given it, he shows conclusively that every case has its own
characteristics, and should be carefully studied, and all the symptoms should be
noted for symptoms give utterance to the specific struggle which nature makes in
her efforts to get rid of the disease. The use of remedies is to assist nature, and
therefore the author maintains that the selection of a remedy whose pathogenesis
shows a record of symptoms like those of the disease, is indispensable, and why ?
because it has been ascertained that the vital effects of the remedy must go with
nature and assist her efforts at the very points, organs, or tissues where the battle
with disease waxes the strongest. The carrying out of this principle has rewarded
the author's efforts in the treatment of all forms of this fever, from the more mild
to the most malignant cases. In view of the success which has attended his practice, an example is presented for the consideration of the candid and reflecting
votaries of the healing art.
The author's analysis of the etiology of this disease, as well as his lucid illustration of predisposing and exciting causes, add greatly to the value of the work.
In the chapter on the Symptoms of Typhoid Fever, there is an amount of valuable
instruction which no modrrn physician can afford to be deprived of. The perusal
of this will amply compensate any reader who wishes to know the general symptoms embraced under the head of Prostration, Tonic Contractions, Fehrilary Contraction, Clonic Convulsions, Subsvltus Tendinum, Tremors, etc.
The treatise on the appearance of the skin and the various symptoms that have
sent there, such as the different kinds of eruption, is full of interest. The observations on sleep, the circulation, the paroxysms of fever and sweats, and the variety
of moral and mental phenomena, are well calculated to make one familiar with the
various phases of the disease. In brief, it may be said that the effect of this disease on the head, eyes, ears, nose and face, mouth, throat, appetite, stomach, abdomen and spirits, is described in chaste and beautiful language, and remai-kable for
the novelty of the arrangement. The author has given us a record of his observations of the variations and changes which take place in all the organs, secretions
and excretions, during a siege of this formidable disease.
In the treatment which he lays down, we find much that commends itself to all
vho sincerely believe in Homoeopathy. It is strictly Homoeopathic, and yet the
uthor writes with a liberal and catholic spirit. His reasoning is based on facts.
He shows that Homoeopathy is a perfect system, and that any and every departjre from it in practice is detrimental to the sick, and treason against science, No
me can read this work, carefully and candidly, without deriving a vast amount of
instruction. Its admirable delineation of Homoeopathic principles and practice is
a timely rebuke to those who lack patience in the investigation of the capability
and power of Homoepathic remedies. I do not hesitate to recommend the work to
all physicians as a valuable addition to medical literature.
Very respectfully,
A. E. SMALL, M. D.
President of Hahnemann Medical College, Chicago, a/nd
Professor of Theory and Practice.
One vol. 8vo. pp, 297. Price, only $2.25. For Sale at all Homoeopathic Pharmacies
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It is a singular fact, that, although the

physicians in the United States equal those of

been no American Homoeo-

years ago an enterprising publisher

announced one, and sought the endorsement of the American

committee was appointed to examine and

recommended that the

the World's Convention, in Philadelphia in 1876, the

year to year the report has been "prog-

referred to an international committee to report in

this delay, the profession

manual has been prepared

have become impatient, and

to supply the pressing need.

The United States Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia

claim to be an exhaustive work, but will doubtless prove a convenient

been compiled largely from the ancient and modern

J^uropean works on this branch, while the preparation of the newer

remedies found in the Encyclopaedia of Materia Medica,

have been added, making

conform to the established

have been omitted, or simply admitted by name.

believe, will be found reliable,

tain valuable information not given in

few errors and omissions, but

work modern and

any other work.

the pharmacists, chemists and physicians,

distinguishing features of Homoeopathic

and preservation of single

careful selection, preparation, attenuation

Homoeopathic Pharmacy arose from necessity.

be selected with the greatest care.

of drugs then in vogue,

produced, he soon discovered, decided and long lasting aggravations,

and he set about devising means of diluting them, instead of resorting

practiced Homoeopathically increased in

demand for these remedies mulwork on Homoeopathic Pharmacy became a neces-

other countries, and the

Germany, France and Great

No one needs to know the quality

of the implements or instruments

improper preparation, but similar cases

practice, or in that of others to

the case, in which the turning point

be the success or want of

success of this drug in this one case.

any preparation which he obtains from another as that which he

and a physician whose engagements permit

do better than prepare

attenuations from the crude drug.

which are now used in the practice

this quite within the reach of all country prac-

knowledge of chemistry and botany.

The various mineral and veget-

extended chemical or botanical account of

In order to conform more closely to long established methods of