General therapeutics and materia medica (volume 1): adapted for a medical text book . not encourageus to place more faith in it than in the overrated haemastatic * watersreferred to. {New Remedies, 5th edit. p. 436, Philad. 1846.) 17. MATIAS or MALAMBO. Malambo bark, the source of which has not been positively deter-mined, has been long knownto, and examined by theFrench pharmaciens. is of opinion, that theMatias bark received byhim from South America isidentical with it. It is de-scribed by him, as three orfour lines thick, brittle, al-though somewhat fibrous; ofa brown colour, and cov
General therapeutics and materia medica (volume 1): adapted for a medical text book . not encourageus to place more faith in it than in the overrated haemastatic * watersreferred to. {New Remedies, 5th edit. p. 436, Philad. 1846.) 17. MATIAS or MALAMBO. Malambo bark, the source of which has not been positively deter-mined, has been long knownto, and examined by theFrench pharmaciens. is of opinion, that theMatias bark received byhim from South America isidentical with it. It is de-scribed by him, as three orfour lines thick, brittle, al-though somewhat fibrous; ofa brown colour, and coveredwith an ash coloured tuber-culated epidermis; has anaromatic smell, and a bitterpungent taste, which ityields to water and alcohol,—the former being an agree-able bitter infusion, and thelatter a powerful bitter tinc-ture. Malambo bark was ana-lyzed by M. Cadet, and sub-sequently by M. Vauquelin,who found ittocontainresin;a light volatile oil, and anextract very soluble in tannic acid was, how-ever, found in it; scarcely any gallic acid ; and none of the alkalies of. Diospyros Virginiana. HEUCHERA. 133 the cinchonas ; yet in New Granada, where the tree grows, it is held inhigh repute as an antiperiodic and stomachic. Mr. Ure affirms, that he has frequently administered Matias bark,with good effect, as a substitute for cinchona ; and Dr. Mackay states,that he has witnessed good results from its employment in cases inwhich an aromatic tonic was needed. An infusion maybe made of twodrachms of the bark to a pint of water ; the dose of which is one or twofluidounces, repealed two or three times a day, in cases where a bitterstomachic is needed. Fig. 152. Besides agents already described, the Pharmacopoeia of the UnitedStates has admitted into its secondary list the following astringents. 18. Diospyros, Persimmon. This is the bark of Diospyros Virgini-ana; Sex. Syst. Dicecia Octan-dria; Nat. Ord. Ebenacese; anindigenous tree, well known in thesouthern and middle States
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