Materia medica and therapeutics : for physicians and students . ACORUS CALAMUS. RHIZOME. lene (CioHje), and methyl salicylate (). The leavesalso contain arbutin, ericolin, tirson, tannin, sugar, etc. The offici-nal preparations are the oil and the spirit (containing 3 parts of 222 MATERIA MEDICA NEUROTICS. the oil in lOO of the preparation.) An infusion of the leaves isin very general popular use as a carminative and stomachic. The oil of gaultheria has been used with considerable successin acute rheumatism. Dr. Kinnicutt* reports twelve cases treatedby it with the following results
Materia medica and therapeutics : for physicians and students . ACORUS CALAMUS. RHIZOME. lene (CioHje), and methyl salicylate (). The leavesalso contain arbutin, ericolin, tirson, tannin, sugar, etc. The offici-nal preparations are the oil and the spirit (containing 3 parts of 222 MATERIA MEDICA NEUROTICS. the oil in lOO of the preparation.) An infusion of the leaves isin very general popular use as a carminative and stomachic. The oil of gaultheria has been used with considerable successin acute rheumatism. Dr. Kinnicutt* reports twelve cases treatedby it with the following results : complete absence of pain inabout three days; duration of fever, 2)% days; average stay inhospital, 24^ days. Gottheilf finds that it reduces the localswelling and relieves the pain (four cases); while A. Flint, Sr.,|states that the average length of confinement to hospital was, ineleven cases, less than five days—a very favorable of these observers gave it in frequently repeated doses(gtt. x), Flint, in flaxseed tea. Fig. GAULTHERIA PROCUMBENS. LEAVES. Dr. Pinkham § reports four cases of poisoning by oil of gaul-theria, in which f Sss was the fatal dose in each. In all severesymptoms of irritation of the gastro-intestinal tract and disturb-ance of the cerebral functions were noted. It seems to be anarcotico-irritant poison. *yV. Y. Med. Record, 1882, p. 505. \Ibidein, 1883, p. 256. Xlbidem, 1883, p. 725-\ Boston Med. and Surg. Journ., Dec. 8th, 1887. I STIMULANTS SWEET ORANGE-PEEL. 223 AURANTII AMARI CORTEX—BITTER DULCIS CORTEX SWEET ORANGE-PEEL. The RIND of the fruit of Citrus vulgaris, or Bitter Orange,and Citrus aurantium, or Sweet Orange {^Nat. Ord. Aurantiaceae),is much employed as a flavoring addition to other contain volatile oils, licsperidin (a bitter crystalline gluco-side), etc. The flowers {aurantiiflores) yield a delightful vola-tile oil termed oil of neroli (officinal). The following are theofficinal prep
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