. General therapeutics and materia medica: adapted for a medical textbook (Volume 2). with advan-tage in certain dis-eases of childhood,—as a bath, forexample, in ma-rasmus, scrofula,cholera infantum,&c, where the sto-mach would not receive tonic and astringent remedies kindly; but itis not easy to see how any considerable benefit could be derived fromit. It has even been affirmed to cure intermittents in children, whenadministered in this manner. It has also been used beneficially, as awash, in flabby ill-conditioned ulcers. Like alum, finely powderedbark has been inhaled in cases of phthisis
. General therapeutics and materia medica: adapted for a medical textbook (Volume 2). with advan-tage in certain dis-eases of childhood,—as a bath, forexample, in ma-rasmus, scrofula,cholera infantum,&c, where the sto-mach would not receive tonic and astringent remedies kindly; but itis not easy to see how any considerable benefit could be derived fromit. It has even been affirmed to cure intermittents in children, whenadministered in this manner. It has also been used beneficially, as awash, in flabby ill-conditioned ulcers. Like alum, finely powderedbark has been inhaled in cases of phthisis pulmonalis, and especiallyin laryngeal pJUhisis. The dose of the powder is from 5ss. to 3j.; butit is scarcely ever given in this form. The bark of the white oak isalways preferred as an internal remedy, in consequence of that of theblack oak seeming to irritate the bowels. DECOCTUM QUERCUS ALB J, DECOCTION OP WHITE OAK BARK. (Querc. Ij.; Aquce Oiss.; boiled to a pint.) The dose of this is f Sij. tof,5iv.; but it is rarely used except as an injection or Quercus pedunculata. it. Male catkins, b. Stamensfruit, e. The same magnified. c. Female involucre and stigmas, d. Young/. A cotyledon with the radicle. 9. KLEMATOXYLON.—LOGWOOD. Logwood, Campeachy Wood, is the wood of Hcematoxylon Campe-chianum; Sex. Syst. Decandria Monogynia; Nat. Ord. Leguminosse;a tree, which is indigenous in Central America, and grows wild inJamaica and other West India Islands. H^EMATOXYLON. 133 Logwood, as an article employed by dyers, is well known in com-merce. It is importedin billets, the bark andwhite sap-wood being-chipped off, and the in-ner wood or dnramensent abroad. This is ofa deep red colour, bnt itbecomes dark by expo-sure to the air, and of ablackish brown the shops, it is keptin chips, or rasped intocoarse powder. It has apeculiar, rather agreeablesmell; and a sweetish,astringent, and subse-quently bitterish chewed, it coloursthe saliva violet.
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