General therapeutics and materia medica (volume 1): adapted for a medical text book . s passed away. Somehave employed it in the same cases much stronger,—the ointment beingformed of equal parts of powdered galls and lard or butter. The Lon-don and Edinburgh Colleges have an Unguentum GALLiE Compositum,formed of Galls, in very fine powder, Jij; Opium powdered, 3j ; Lard,Ij. The author has often used this ointment in hemorrhoidal affectionswith marked advantage. 6. KRAMERIA.—RHATANY. The root of Krameria Triandra, Rhatany; Sex. Syst. TetrandriaMonogynia; Nat. Ord. Polygalese,—Krameriaceae, (Lin
General therapeutics and materia medica (volume 1): adapted for a medical text book . s passed away. Somehave employed it in the same cases much stronger,—the ointment beingformed of equal parts of powdered galls and lard or butter. The Lon-don and Edinburgh Colleges have an Unguentum GALLiE Compositum,formed of Galls, in very fine powder, Jij; Opium powdered, 3j ; Lard,Ij. The author has often used this ointment in hemorrhoidal affectionswith marked advantage. 6. KRAMERIA.—RHATANY. The root of Krameria Triandra, Rhatany; Sex. Syst. TetrandriaMonogynia; Nat. Ord. Polygalese,—Krameriaceae, (Lindley,) is offici-nal in all the Pharmacopoeias of Great Britain and in that of the UnitedStates. The plant inhabits the mountainous parts of Peru, especially inthe district of Huanuco and other localities in which cinchona to Tschudi, most of the Rhatany which is exported to Eu-rope is obtained in the southern provinces of Peru, particularly inArica and Islay. As met with in the shops, it consists of a short root-stock, from half 124 SPECIAL an inch to two inches in diameter; and of numerous roots proper, which_. ,.- are simple or branched, Fig. 146. , » , « , ., one or two feet in length,and varying in thicknessfrom that of a writing quillto that of the thumb. Thebark is of a dark brownish-red colour, w7rinkled andwarty on the root-stock,but smoother on the bran-ches. The central woodyportion is of a yellowish orpale red colour. As thebark contains the largestamount of astringent mat-ter, the smaller branchesare preferred. It is devoidof smell, and of a very bit-ter astringent taste. Thevirtues of the root arereadily yielded to waterand to alcohol. When subjected to ana-lysis, it has been found tocontain about 40 per cent,of tannic acid ; and, according to M. Peschier, a peculiar acid, called byhim kramerin ; the properties of which are but little known; and towhich, as well as to the tannic acid, the astringency has been
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