General therapeutics and materia medica (volume 1): adapted for a medical text book . he aromatic and pungent property,however, is injured by decoction. It was sepa-rated by the authors late friend—Professor Em-met, of the University of Virginia—who called itLiriodendrine. It does not resemble quinia in itschemical characters. It unites with neither alkaliesnor acids; and appears to hold a place between Liriodendron resins and essential oils. It has not been used in medicine. Tulip tree bark has been prescribed under the same circumstances asthat of dogwood ; its dose in the apy
General therapeutics and materia medica (volume 1): adapted for a medical text book . he aromatic and pungent property,however, is injured by decoction. It was sepa-rated by the authors late friend—Professor Em-met, of the University of Virginia—who called itLiriodendrine. It does not resemble quinia in itschemical characters. It unites with neither alkaliesnor acids; and appears to hold a place between Liriodendron resins and essential oils. It has not been used in medicine. Tulip tree bark has been prescribed under the same circumstances asthat of dogwood ; its dose in the apyrexia of intermittents being, in pow-der, 5j. As an ordinary tonic, it maybe prescribed in infusion. (Lirio-dendr. I] ; Jlqua bullient. Oj. Dose, to f.|iij.) The Pharma-copoeia of the United States contains no officinal preparation of it. 68. HIPPOCASTANUM.—HORSECHESTNUT. JEsculus Hippocastanum, Horsechestnut, Buckeye ; Sex. Syst. Hep-tandria Monogynia ; Nat. Ord. Hippocastaneae, is indigenous in themountainous regions of Asia Minor and Persia, and grows in this coun-. 92 SPECIAL TONICS. Fig. 143. try as well as in Europe. The bark is the part employed in medicine:it has an astringent bitter taste, and contains a considerable quantity oftannic acid. A peculiar principle, JEsculiney is said to have been dis-covered in it; but this has been contested. The bark has been long usedas an astringent; and in moderntimes has been brought forwardas a substitute for cinchona. Itwould seem to accord most inproperties with willow bark,—the latter appearing, however, tobe more effective, and to agreebetter with the digestive was much used during thewars of Napoleon, when cincho-na was scarce. It has, likewise,been administered as an astrin-gent tonic when such an agentwas indicated. Many of theEuropean pharmacopoeias havean aqueous extract of the bark,which is said to agree better withthe stomach than the powder ordecoction. The following Factitious Pow-der of Bark i
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