General therapeutics and materia medica (volume 1): adapted for a medical text book . adeas follows:—Mezereon bark in chips Jij > Liquorice root bruised zss;Water Oiij; boil gently to Oij. The dose is f.^iv to f.^viij, three orfour times a day. Mezereon enters into the same officinal preparations as guaiacumwood, and is seldom given alone. 73. ARALIA NUDICAULIS.—FALSE SARSAPARILLA. This is the root of Aralia nudicaulis, False sarsaparilla. Wild sar-saparilla, Small spike-nard ; Sex. Syst. Pen-tandria Pentagynia;Nat. Ord. Araliaceae;an indigenous peren-nial plant, which growsthroughout the g
General therapeutics and materia medica (volume 1): adapted for a medical text book . adeas follows:—Mezereon bark in chips Jij > Liquorice root bruised zss;Water Oiij; boil gently to Oij. The dose is f.^iv to f.^viij, three orfour times a day. Mezereon enters into the same officinal preparations as guaiacumwood, and is seldom given alone. 73. ARALIA NUDICAULIS.—FALSE SARSAPARILLA. This is the root of Aralia nudicaulis, False sarsaparilla. Wild sar-saparilla, Small spike-nard ; Sex. Syst. Pen-tandria Pentagynia;Nat. Ord. Araliaceae;an indigenous peren-nial plant, which growsthroughout the great-er part of the UnitedStates, flowering inMay and June. It isofficinal in the secon-dary list of the Phar-macopoeia of the Unit-ed States ; is about asthick as the little fing-er ; more or less con-torted ; of a yellowishbrown colour external-ly ; of a fragrant odour,and an aromatic sac-charine taste. False sarsaparilla hasnot been analyzed, butappears to possess pro-perties that might en- Aralia it to rank with guaiacum and mezereum amongst excitant diapho-. 342 SPECIAL EUTROPHICS. retics. The common belief is, that, like them and sarsaparilla, it maybe employed also as a eutrophic in syphilitic and syphiloid diseases,and in chronic cutaneous affections especially. The author has neverprescribed it, nor has he seen it prescribed. The root of Aralia racemosa, American spikenard, is said to resem-ble Aralia nudicaulis in properties. 74. SASSAFRAS RADICIS CORTEX.—BARK OF SASSAFRAS ROOT. This agent—like guaiacum wood and mezereon—was at one timesupposed to be possessed of powerful eutrophic virtues, especially insyphilitic and chronic cutaneous diseases; and it is still associated withthe articles above mentioned, and with sarsaparilla, in one officinal pre-paration of the Pharmacopoeia of the United States, Decoctum sarsapa-rillse composition. Its properties—both diaphoretic (Vol. i. p. 323,)and eutrophic—are probably altogether dependent upon the
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