The treasury of botany: a popular dictionary of the vegetable kingdom; with which is incorporated a glossary of botanical terms . of petals, buthave three styles, divided into two or morebranches. The fruit consists of three car-pels separating one from the other, andeach containing one seed. The species arenumerous and vary very much in general 351 GTfjs Erea£urp of 33Dtang. CROW appearance, some being herbs, others trees,and some having entire, others dividedleaves. C. Tiglium is the most important tree ofthis genus in a medicinal point of view, asit produces the seeds whence croton oil isex
The treasury of botany: a popular dictionary of the vegetable kingdom; with which is incorporated a glossary of botanical terms . of petals, buthave three styles, divided into two or morebranches. The fruit consists of three car-pels separating one from the other, andeach containing one seed. The species arenumerous and vary very much in general 351 GTfjs Erea£urp of 33Dtang. CROW appearance, some being herbs, others trees,and some having entire, others dividedleaves. C. Tiglium is the most important tree ofthis genus in a medicinal point of view, asit produces the seeds whence croton oil isextracted. The tree is a native of Coro-mandel, the Indian Archipelago, &c, andhas oblong-pointed leaves covered withstellate hairs, when young. One seed issufficient to act as a purgative, but the oilexpressed from the seeds is yet morepowerful, though sometimes uncertain inits action: one drop is usually sufficient,hence the great value of this drug in caseswhere smallness of dose, speediness ofaction, and powerful effects are required,as in mania, apoplexy, dropsy, &c. It isso acrid that it is exhibited usually in. Croton Tiglium. pills in order to avoid the burning heat itoccasions in the throat if swallowed byitself: on this account it is not used inany case where there is inflammation ofthe bowels. In large doses it acts as afrightful poison, producing symptoms likethose of cholera. Externally it has beenused as a counter-irritant. It is obtainedby submitting the seeds to pressure, anoperation which affects the men engagedin it with irritation of the eyes, and airpassages, and purging. Dr. Pereira givesthe case of a workman who suffered veryseverely from inhaling the dust of theseeds, he having been occupied for sometime in emptying packages of them. Theseeds of C. Pavana and C. polyandram,Indian shrubs, are also used as of the species have aromatic pro-perties. Of these the most important areC. Eleutheria, the tree yielding Cascarillabark, which is chiefly
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