The family flora and materia medica botanica: containing the botanical analysis, natural history and chemical and medical properties of plants . ed Worm-tea,for which there are several recipes, differing only in the quantities ofthe ingredients. It usually purges actively and does not excite nar-cotic symptoms. The syrup is also an efficacious form of preparation. In the ordinary dose (one or two drachms for adults) Spigeliahas very little sensible effect on the system, though it may act effi-caciously as an anthelmintic. In larger doses it appears to operateas an irritant to the gaslro-intest
The family flora and materia medica botanica: containing the botanical analysis, natural history and chemical and medical properties of plants . ed Worm-tea,for which there are several recipes, differing only in the quantities ofthe ingredients. It usually purges actively and does not excite nar-cotic symptoms. The syrup is also an efficacious form of preparation. In the ordinary dose (one or two drachms for adults) Spigeliahas very little sensible effect on the system, though it may act effi-caciously as an anthelmintic. In larger doses it appears to operateas an irritant to the gaslro-intestinal canal aTnd gives rise to purgingand sometimes to vomiting, though its effects in this way are veryuncertain. In poisonous doses it operates as a cerebro-spinant ofnarcotic, giving rise to violent narcotic symptoms already narcotic effects are said to be less apt to occur when the medi-cine purges, and to be altogether obviated by combining it with ca-thartics. The danger from its employment cannot be great, as it isin very general use both in regular and domestic practice, and seri-ous consequences at present are N9 62 V IT lo VI v-[.|.K:KACommon Wine Grape f* t uvaky. superior, two-celled, Style one, very short, l seq. and (/•), isk,ind
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