. The Alumni journal. College of Pharmacy of the City of New York; Pharmacology. Vol. II. PUBLISHED BY THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE COLLEGE OF PHARMACY OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK New York, July, 1895. No. 7. THE PHARMACOLOGY OF SAW=PALflETTO.* Botany and Materia Medica, By H. H. Rusby, M. D. Histology By W. H. Bastedo, Pharmacy By Virgil Coblentz, Ph. librar NEW YO BOT GARDEJ BOTANY AND MATERIA MEDICA. Bot. name.— Serenoa serrulata,(Michx.) Hook. f. Syn. — Chamcerops serrulata, Michx. Flor. Bor. Am. i, 206 (1803).— Sabal serrulatum, Nutt; R. & S. Syst. Veg. vii, i486 (1830).—Brahea ser
. The Alumni journal. College of Pharmacy of the City of New York; Pharmacology. Vol. II. PUBLISHED BY THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE COLLEGE OF PHARMACY OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK New York, July, 1895. No. 7. THE PHARMACOLOGY OF SAW=PALflETTO.* Botany and Materia Medica, By H. H. Rusby, M. D. Histology By W. H. Bastedo, Pharmacy By Virgil Coblentz, Ph. librar NEW YO BOT GARDEJ BOTANY AND MATERIA MEDICA. Bot. name.— Serenoa serrulata,(Michx.) Hook. f. Syn. — Chamcerops serrulata, Michx. Flor. Bor. Am. i, 206 (1803).— Sabal serrulatum, Nutt; R. & S. Syst. Veg. vii, i486 (1830).—Brahea serrulata, H. Wendl, in Kerch, Palm. 235 (1854?).— Serenoa serrulata, Hook. f. in B. & H. Gen. Plant, iii, 926 (spelled '"Serenaea," but corrected on p. 1228) 1883. Generic characters pointed out by Sereno Watson, to whom the genus was dedicated. The high importance of the Palms from an economic point of view, as regards their decorative value and the products which they yield to commerce, and more especially the very large place which they fill in supplying the necessities of the inhabitants of the countries where they grow, scarcely equaled elsewhere in the vegetable kingdom, is in itself sufficient to lend great interest to all facts bearing on their medicinal value or uses. Such known uses however are very few in view of the great size, wide distribu- tion and well known character of the family. Its members are extensive yield- ers of fixed oils and of starches, the latter variously known under the name of Sago, and abound also in sugary fruits, of which the date is the best representa- tive; but their well known medicinal members are few, being limited to the Calamus Draco, yielding the ordinary commercial dragon's blood, the Areca Catechu, containing four alkaloids and known to us as a mild astringent and taenicide, besides being enormously con- sumed at home as a masticatory, and the common cocoanut, whose oil is an efficient taencide, so sparingly u
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