. General therapeutics and materia medica: adapted for a medical textbook (Volume 2). Avena. a. The white oat. b. Siberian or Tartarian oat. 418 SPECIAL DEMULCENTS, In the United States, especially in the southern and western portions,an excellent gruel is made from the farina of Zea mays, Indian or cornmeal. 23. AMYLUM.—STARCH. Starch is the fecula of the seeds of Tritlcum vulgare, common wheat;Sex. Syst. Triandria Digynia; Nat. Ord. Gramineae; which is said Fie. Triticum.—Wheat. a. T. vulgare, * T. vulgare. $• hybernum. c. T. turgidum (composituuil. d. T. turgidum. e. T. po
. General therapeutics and materia medica: adapted for a medical textbook (Volume 2). Avena. a. The white oat. b. Siberian or Tartarian oat. 418 SPECIAL DEMULCENTS, In the United States, especially in the southern and western portions,an excellent gruel is made from the farina of Zea mays, Indian or cornmeal. 23. AMYLUM.—STARCH. Starch is the fecula of the seeds of Tritlcum vulgare, common wheat;Sex. Syst. Triandria Digynia; Nat. Ord. Gramineae; which is said Fie. Triticum.—Wheat. a. T. vulgare, * T. vulgare. $• hybernum. c. T. turgidum (composituuil. d. T. turgidum. e. T. polonicum. /. T. Spelta. y. T. monococcum. Fig. 186. to be a native of the country of the Baschkirs, but is cultivated in Eu-rope and this country. It is contained, also, in various plants, but isespecially abundant in the seeds of the cerealia,of which it forms between sixty and seventy-five per cent. Arrowroot, sago, tapioca, tous-les-mois, potato-starch, &c, are varieties of is never prepared by the apothecary. When pure, wheaten starch is of a whitecolour; devoid of odour, and almost of is not soluble in alcohol, ether, or in coldwater; but with boiling water forms the De-coctum Amyli or Mucilago Amyli of theBritish pharmacopoeias, which is made by boil-ing 4 or 6 drachms of starch in a pint of waterfor a short time, and is chiefly used as an enema, and an excipient foropium administered in that manner. It is rarely or never given in-ter
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