General therapeutics and materia medica (volume 1): adapted for a medical text book . circumstances. TINCTUM CATECHU, TINCTURE OF CATECHU. {Catechu giij; ^ij ; Alcohol, dilut. Oij.) The same remarks apply to the com-position of this tincture as to that of the infusion. It is rarely givenalone, the alcohol being so often an objection ; but is often added to KINO. 121 chalk mixture, and occasionally to the infusion of catechu. Its dose isfrom f-5j to , in sugared water, or in Port wine and water. 4. KINO. Tn the Pharmacopoeia of the United States, kino is said to be an ex-trac
General therapeutics and materia medica (volume 1): adapted for a medical text book . circumstances. TINCTUM CATECHU, TINCTURE OF CATECHU. {Catechu giij; ^ij ; Alcohol, dilut. Oij.) The same remarks apply to the com-position of this tincture as to that of the infusion. It is rarely givenalone, the alcohol being so often an objection ; but is often added to KINO. 121 chalk mixture, and occasionally to the infusion of catechu. Its dose isfrom f-5j to , in sugared water, or in Port wine and water. 4. KINO. Tn the Pharmacopoeia of the United States, kino is said to be an ex-tract obtained from an uncertain plant; whilst in the London Pharma-copoeia it is assigned to Pterocarpus erinaceus, Hedgehog Pterocarpus :Sex. Syst. Diadelphia Decandria; Nat. Ord. Leguminosse, a treewhich inhabits the woods on the Gambia and Senegal. The EdinburghCollege assigns it to the same, and to other undetermined genera andspecies. Different varieties are described in pharmacological works. Accord-ing to Dr. Pereira, two substances are met with in English commerce Fig. 145. *. Pterocarpus marsupium. under the name,—the one called Botany Bay kino, which is the in-spissated juice of Eucalyptus resinifera ; the other, apparently an extractimported from Bombay and Tellicherry, and which he terms East Indiakino. The latter is presumed to be the substance referred to in thePharmacopoeias, as it is always regarded in commerce as genuine gumkino. Ten years ago, (1839) it was affirmed by Dr. Gibson of theBombay service, that this kino is the produce of Pterocarpus marsupium ;and the subsequent observations of Drs. Royle, Pereira and Wright,according to Dr. Christison, have established the fact, that all the kinoof British commerce is prepared at Anjarakandy, near Tellicherry inMalabar, from that tree, which is one of the most magnificent in theforests of India. When longitudinal incisions are made into it, a greatquantity of red juice exudes, which, on being simply dried in the s
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