Materia medica and therapeutics : for physicians and students . grance when rubbed), isa valuable aromatic stimulant, with some tonic properties. It isfound in the shops in somewhat flattened pieces, deprived of theirepidermis, wrinkled, and of a yellowish color, and has a strong,fragrant odor and a warm, bitterish, aromatic taste. It containsvolatile oil, acorin (probably a glucoside), resin, starch, etc. Dose,gr. XX to 5j. A fluid extract is officinal; or it may be given ininfusion. gaultheria. Gaultheria procumbens, Partridge-berry, Deer-berry, or Tea-berry {N^at. Ord. Ericaceae), is a smal
Materia medica and therapeutics : for physicians and students . grance when rubbed), isa valuable aromatic stimulant, with some tonic properties. It isfound in the shops in somewhat flattened pieces, deprived of theirepidermis, wrinkled, and of a yellowish color, and has a strong,fragrant odor and a warm, bitterish, aromatic taste. It containsvolatile oil, acorin (probably a glucoside), resin, starch, etc. Dose,gr. XX to 5j. A fluid extract is officinal; or it may be given ininfusion. gaultheria. Gaultheria procumbens, Partridge-berry, Deer-berry, or Tea-berry {N^at. Ord. Ericaceae), is a small indigenous evergreen plant,with reddish stems, a few inches in height, bright-green leaves,and white, ovate, five-toothed flowers, followed by scarlet berries. STIMULANTS GAULTHERIA. 221 The LEAVES are the officinal portion, and contain a very stimu-lant volatile oil [olcuui gauWicrice), which, when first distilled, iscolorless, but gradually becomes reddish, and is distinguished asbeing- the heaviest of the volatile oils. It consists of eaultheri- FiG. ACORUS CALAMUS. RHIZOME. lene (CioHje), and methyl salicylate (). The leavesalso contain arbutin, ericolin, tirson, tannin, sugar, etc. The offici-nal preparations are the oil and the spirit (containing 3 parts of 222 MATERIA MEDICA NEUROTICS. the oil in lOO of the preparation.) An infusion of the leaves isin very general popular use as a carminative and stomachic. The oil of gaultheria has been used with considerable successin acute rheumatism. Dr. Kinnicutt* reports twelve cases treatedby it with the following results : complete absence of pain inabout three days; duration of fever, 2)% days; average stay inhospital, 24^ days. Gottheilf finds that it reduces the localswelling and relieves the pain (four cases); while A. Flint, Sr.,|states that the average length of confinement to hospital was, ineleven cases, less than five days—a very favorable of these observers gave it in frequently repeated d
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