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Show COMMON WHITE COMMON WHITE LARCH. LARCH. 775 also internally as a diuretic; and by Pitcairn and Cheyne MEDICAL USE. Takeninternally, they are active stimulants, open the bowels, se the secretion of urine, to which they givethe smell even though applied only externally. In all cases ac. l with inflammation they ought to be abstained from, is i as a yemedy for the sciatica ; but few stomachs are able to bear itin the doses they direct. gestive application, anpoplicati Turpentine, so much used formerlyas a di gestive is in modern surgery almost wholly exploded. Ow or Turrentine. (OleumTerebinthine. L. D.) , and not unfrequently occasioned, ally recommendedin gleets, the fluor lose is from a scrupleto a drachm ‘ taken in the form of ie yolk of an eg re be also given in the electuary, mixed wit ce th ight of honey, and 1 und twice orthrice a day, g well triturated withthe yolk ith half a poundof gruel or decoction of mn, that half an ounce or e, triturated with the yolk of an may be employedin the formof an st certain laxative in colics, and othercases of obstinate costiveness. When turpentine is carried into the blood-vessels, it stimulates the whole system; hence its nse in ethereal, is said not to haveits specific gravity, smell, taste, or chronic rheumatism and medical qualities, much imp1 paralysis. Turpentine readily passe Take of commonturpentine, five pounds: water, fourpints : Distil the turpentine with the water in a copper alemb the distillation resin. Recrirrep Orn or Turrentine. (Oleum Volatile Pini Purissimum, olim Oleum Terebinthine Purissimum. E. Oleum Terebinthine Rectificatum. L. D.) Take of oil of turpentine, one pound(twopints, D.); —— water, four pints (four pints, D.): Distil a pint and a half of oil, D.) (as long asany oil comes over, E.) This rectified oil, which in many pharmacopeeias is styled i off by urine, which it imbues with a peculiar odour; also by perspiration, and probably by exhalation from the lungs: and tedious and accompanied with danger. It must be conducted with very great care; for the vapour, which is apt to escape to these respective effects are to be ascribed the virtues it may through the junctures of the vessels, is very inflammable. possess in gravelly complaints, In all these diseases, however, dicine, as well as some of the e kind, byacting assti first observed scurvy, and pulmonic disorders. and especially the last, this megums and balsams of the terebinoften productive of Boerhaave,es and since byFo- ie has been much usedin gle . es . efficacy in the ner of these disorders Dr. C‘ os its inducing son p albus; its Awonthay ascribes to eree of inflammation ofthe urethra; in proof of which hesays, “I have had some instances both of turpentine and balsam of copaiva producing a manifest inflammation in the urethra, urine; bu to the degree of occasioning a suppression 0 ; se effects went off, the gleet, w hich had subsisted for some time before, was entirely cured.” The essential oil, in which the virtues of turpentine resite, 1s aie +e R, it not only preferred for external use, a as a rubifacient, wc. bu PRESCRIPTIONS. R. 1. Take of rectified oil of turpentine ——— mucilage of gum arabic, much as is sufficient, drops 14, — milk of almonds ounce —— rose water drachms 2, - 14, —— syrup of Tolu-- - - - drachm 4 Make into a draught, to be taken night and morning. The Common form of ordering this. .. 2. Take of rectified oil of turpentine drops 25, — vitriolicether - - scruple 1, —— mucilage of gum arabic drachms 3, ———— syrup of poppies drachm 1, rose water - -~ - -,- ounces I}: Make into a draught, to be taken at bed-time. For lumbago ald sciatica, |