General therapeutics and materia medica (volume 1): adapted for a medical text book . ey are chiefly prepared in Spain ; and in the Levant; whencethey have been called Valentias andSmyrnas; and also in Afghanistan,whence they are taken to India. TheMalaga raisins are esteemed the bestof those that are imported into thiscountry. The larger dried grapes goby the name of raisins; the smaller-obtained chiefly from the Ionian Islands—are termed currants, an abbrevia-tion of Corinthians. They have beenoften called respectively in the phar-macopoeias, Passulce majores and Pas-sulce minores. All conta
General therapeutics and materia medica (volume 1): adapted for a medical text book . ey are chiefly prepared in Spain ; and in the Levant; whencethey have been called Valentias andSmyrnas; and also in Afghanistan,whence they are taken to India. TheMalaga raisins are esteemed the bestof those that are imported into thiscountry. The larger dried grapes goby the name of raisins; the smaller-obtained chiefly from the Ionian Islands—are termed currants, an abbrevia-tion of Corinthians. They have beenoften called respectively in the phar-macopoeias, Passulce majores and Pas-sulce minores. All contain a consider-able portion of grape sugar—glucose—which differs from cane sugar in beingless soluble in water or alcohol, andless sweqt. It is considered by thechemist to be identical with that pro-duced by the action of sulphuric acidon starch. Raisins are rarely or never givenalone. They are possessed of demul-cent properties; and are added to preparations having those characters,—as the Decoctum Althaeae, the Decoctum Hordei compositum, &c, ofBritish Vitis vinifera. 10. CETRARIA.—ICELAND MOSS. So much has been said of the general and demulcent properties ofIceland moss, (Vol. i. p. 252,) that it is unnecessary to do more in this HORDEUM. 383 place than remark, that it has been employed as a demulcent andnutrient in diarrhoea and dysentery, as well as in affections of the same remarks apply, also, to 11. CHONDRUS.—IRISH MOSS, which is used in similar cases, (Vol. i. p. 253,) and to. 12. FUCUS AMYLACETJS — CEYLON MOSS. (See Vol. i. p. 254). 13. HORDEUM.—BARLEY. Barley—in the Pharmacopoeia of the United States—means the de-corticated seeds of Hordeum. distichon, Common or long-eared barley ;Sex. Syst. Triandria Digynia; Nat. Ord. Graminese; which is anative of Tartary, but is cultivated in different parts of the world. Fig. 165. Fig. 166. Fig. 1,67.
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