General therapeutics and materia medica (volume 1): adapted for a medical text book . ration of the mineral tonics. In the dose offive grains, it may be prescribed by itself as a bitter tonic. 6. SIMARUBA. Simaruba is the bark of Simaruba officinalis, S. amara, Quassiasimaruba, Bitter simaruba, Mountain damson; which is of the sameclass and order, and the same natural order, as Quassia amara. Thetree is common in Jamaica, and in other West India Islands ; and inGuiana and Cayenne. The bark of the root is the officinal met with in the shops, it is in pieces of various sizes, which ar
General therapeutics and materia medica (volume 1): adapted for a medical text book . ration of the mineral tonics. In the dose offive grains, it may be prescribed by itself as a bitter tonic. 6. SIMARUBA. Simaruba is the bark of Simaruba officinalis, S. amara, Quassiasimaruba, Bitter simaruba, Mountain damson; which is of the sameclass and order, and the same natural order, as Quassia amara. Thetree is common in Jamaica, and in other West India Islands ; and inGuiana and Cayenne. The bark of the root is the officinal met with in the shops, it is in pieces of various sizes, which aresometimes very long, and some inches in breadth ; folded lengthwise ;rough externally ; warty, and of a grayish-yellow colour; within, of ayellowish-brown, and on the inner surface of the bark of a pale yellowish-white. It is light and tough ; devoid of odour, and of a very bitter subjected to analysis, it is found to contain a bitter principleanalogous to quassite, with a trace of volatile oil, &c. Water andalcohol extract its virtues. 40 SPECIAL TONICS. Fig. In large quantities, simarubais said to excite vomiting andpurging; but in ordinary medici-nal doses, it is a bitter tonic,resembling in its properties thearticle last described. It has,likewise, been given in dysentery,and the Germans term itRuhrrinde, dysentery can only, however, be service-able in chronic cases of thedisease ; and its action is probablyaltogether that of an ordinarybitter tonic. It is rarely prescribedin this country. The Pharma-copoeia of the United States con-tains no officinal preparation ofit. The dose of the powder isfrom a scruple to a drachm. 7. PRUNUS BARK. -WILD Simaruba amara. 1, Female flower. 2. Drupes. 3. Male flower. 4. Stamen. Prunus Virginiana, Cerasusserotina or Cerasus Virginiana;Sex. Syst. IcosandriaMonogynia; Nat. Ord. Amygdalacea3—an indige-nous tree, which is common throughout the United States—yields officinalWild cherry bark. On th
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