Materia medica and therapeutics : for physicians and students . ed by sodium sulphate; repeated solution and crystallization,with fusion, furnish a pure salt in the form of white or colorlessstriated prisms, which effloresce in dry air, are wholly solublein water, tolerably soluble in alcohol, and have a sharp, bitterish,not disagreeable taste. Its effects and uses are analogous to those DIURETICS SQUILL. 36/ of potassium acetate, over which it has the advantage of not beingdeliquescent. Dose, gr. xx-5j, p. r. n. 3. Sidcrtizcs (see p. 226); and Digitalis (see p. 268), which isvery much employe
Materia medica and therapeutics : for physicians and students . ed by sodium sulphate; repeated solution and crystallization,with fusion, furnish a pure salt in the form of white or colorlessstriated prisms, which effloresce in dry air, are wholly solublein water, tolerably soluble in alcohol, and have a sharp, bitterish,not disagreeable taste. Its effects and uses are analogous to those DIURETICS SQUILL. 36/ of potassium acetate, over which it has the advantage of not beingdeliquescent. Dose, gr. xx-5j, p. r. n. 3. Sidcrtizcs (see p. 226); and Digitalis (see p. 268), which isvery much employed in cardiac dropsies in combination withsquill. 4. Blcnnorrhctics (see p. 378), particularly the oleo-resins. 5. Most of the Stiuitdatiiig Diapliorctics. special diuretics. scilla—squill. Squill is the sliced bulb of Urginea Scilla {Nat. Ord. Liliaceae), a perennial plant which grows on the shores of the Mediterranean. It has fibrous roots attached to a roundish-ovate bulb, from which both the leaves and flower-stem spring directly, the latter ap- FiG. URGINEA SCILLA, BULB. pearing first; the leaves are broad-lanceolate, and from twelve toeighteen inches long; the stem is about two feet high, and bearspale yellowish-green flowers. The fresh bulb is pyriform, of the size of the fist to that of achilds head, and consists of thick, fleshy, concentric scales,attenuated at their edges, and attached to a rudimentary stem ;the outer scales are very thin and papery. Two kinds of squillbulbs are met with, the white and the red, which differ only inthe color of their scales, and are identical in medicinal virtues. 368 MATERIA MEDICA ECCRITICS. Both abound in a viscid, acrid juice, which is very much dimin-ished by drying, with Httle loss of medicinal power. Por im-portation, squill is usually sliced and dried, and is found in theshops in white or yellowish-white pieces, which when dry arebrittle, but when moist, flexible. They absorb moisture readily,and should be kept in well-st
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