. General therapeutics and materia medica: adapted for a medical textbook (Volume 2). ldom given alone. 75. ARALIA NUMCAULIS.— FALSE SARSAPARILLA. This is the root of Aralia niidicaulis, False sarsaparilla^ Wild sarsa-parilla, Small spikenard; Sex. Syst. Pentandria Pentagynia; Nat. ; an indige-nous perennial plant, Fig. grows through-out the greater partof the United States,flowering in May andJune. It is officinalin the secondary listof the Pharmacopoeiaof the United States ;is about as thick asthe little finger; moreor less contorted; ofa yellowish browncolour externa
. General therapeutics and materia medica: adapted for a medical textbook (Volume 2). ldom given alone. 75. ARALIA NUMCAULIS.— FALSE SARSAPARILLA. This is the root of Aralia niidicaulis, False sarsaparilla^ Wild sarsa-parilla, Small spikenard; Sex. Syst. Pentandria Pentagynia; Nat. ; an indige-nous perennial plant, Fig. grows through-out the greater partof the United States,flowering in May andJune. It is officinalin the secondary listof the Pharmacopoeiaof the United States ;is about as thick asthe little finger; moreor less contorted; ofa yellowish browncolour externally; ofa fragrant odour, andan aromatic saccharinetaste. False sarsaparillahas not been analyzed,but appears to pos-sess properties thatmight entitle it to rankwith guaiacum andmezereum amongst excitant diaphoretics. Aralia nudicaulis. The common belief is, that, like them and sarsaparilla, it may be employed also as a eutrophic in syphilitic and syphiloid diseases, and in chronic cutaneous affections especially. The author has never prescribed it, nor has he seen it 366 SPECIAL EUTROPHICS. The root of Aralia racemosa, American spikenard, is said to resemblethat of Aralia nudicaulis in properties. 76. SASSAFRAS RADPCIS 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 some officinalpreparations (p. 362 and 364), of the Pharmacopoeia of the UnitedStates. Its properties—both diaphoretic (Vol. i. p. 359,) and eutro-phic—are probably altogether dependent upon the volatile oil whichit contains; but its agency is very limited, and it is now never givenalone in the very cases in which it was formerly so much extolled. Oil of sassafras forms part of Syrupus Sarsaparillce Conpositus of thePharmacopoeia of the United States. 77.
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