. General therapeutics and materia medica: adapted for a medical textbook (Volume 2). lly; warty, and of agrayish-yellow colour; within, ofa yellowish-brown, and on theinner surface of the bark of apale yellowish-white. It is light£ ^K^I^^^^^^ali^lB and tough; devoid of odour, and ^ r!dBIM ^^%wwll^4Kr of a very bitter taste. Whensub- jeeted to analysis, it is found tocontain a bitter principle analo-gous to quassite, with a trace ofvolatile oil, &c. Water and al-cohol extract its virtues. In large quantities, simarubais said to excite vomiting andpurging; but in ordinary medi-cinal doses, it i
. General therapeutics and materia medica: adapted for a medical textbook (Volume 2). lly; warty, and of agrayish-yellow colour; within, ofa yellowish-brown, and on theinner surface of the bark of apale yellowish-white. It is light£ ^K^I^^^^^^ali^lB and tough; devoid of odour, and ^ r!dBIM ^^%wwll^4Kr of a very bitter taste. Whensub- jeeted to analysis, it is found tocontain a bitter principle analo-gous to quassite, with a trace ofvolatile oil, &c. Water and al-cohol extract its virtues. In large quantities, simarubais said to excite vomiting andpurging; but in ordinary medi-cinal doses, it is a bitter tonic,resembling in its properties thearticle last described. It has,likewise, been given in dysente-ry, and the Germans term itRuhrrinde, dysentery bark. Itcan only, however, be service-able in chronic cases of the dis-ease ; and its action is probablyaltogether that of an ordinary bitter tonic. It is rarely prescribed inthis country. The Pharmacopoeia of the United States contains noofficinal preparation of it. The dose of the powder is from a scrupleto a Simaruba amara. 1. Female Flower. 2. Drupes. 3. Male flower. 4. Stamen. 7. PRUNUS VIRGINIANA.—WILD CHERRY BARK. Prunus Virginiana, Cerasus serotina or Cerasus Yirgmiana ; Icosandria Monogynia; Nat. Ord. Amygdalaceae—an indige-nous tree, which is common throughout the United States—yields offi-cinal Wild cherry bark. On the banks of the Ohio, it is a much largertree than in the Eastern States. The inner bark—which is the part of Prunus employed in medicine—as met with in the shops, is in pieces of various sizes, of a bright cin-namon colour; brittle and readily reducible to a fawn-coloured pow-der. Its taste is agreeably bitter and aromatic, with the flavour of thebitter almond. Its virtues are readily communicated to hot or coldwater; but they are impaired, and the flavour injured by decoctionpartly in consequence of the volatilization of principles on which they FRASERA. 41 arc depen
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