OCR Text |
Show D0e SOCOTRINE ALOES. Take of aloetic winc, - - = - - ounces 24 compoundspirit of ammonia: ounce $ ; Take a tea-spoonfull occasionally in some cold water in very torpid habits. R.4. R.. 5. Take of socotrine aloes, + + - - drachms 2 new milk: - - - = = ounces 8 Rub themtogether for a clyster. This is useful to destroy the ascarides, or little thread-worm. R. 6. Take of tincture of aloes; =< - + + drachn 1 titcture of rhubarb - - - drachms 2 cinnamon water, - - - = drachms 6 =—— peppermint water, equal quantities : Make into an opening draught. ‘To be taken off going to bed, and early in the morning, where there is giddiness of the head, to determine to the aorta descendens, or descending large artery, leading from the heart, and to stimulate the lower bowels. & very useful purge in paralytic cases. SWEET FLAG, or ACORUS. ACORUS CALAMUS. ; Class VI. Hexandria, Order 1. Monogynia ‘SSENT., GE JHAR es ba Spadi cylindrica Cuar. Spadix indri l, covered with th floscules: flo * Corolli: petalled, naked: Style none: Capsule three-cel led rc, Cuar. sc Scape mucronate, very long, foliaceous. a DESCRIPTION. Tasire i a plaat are long, sword-shaped, sheathing . ae cOnMONy undulated on one side. The flowers sie a w ay and produced upon a spadix or conical ey is oblong, triangular, and divided into three g erous oval seeds. HISTORY. This Be plant isi, 1S; perennial, and growsplentifully in rivulets and the ped “ge about Norwich and other parts of England, in is, er 8 o Holland, in Switzerland, and in other countrics of with as he shops have beenusually supplied from the Levant i to those of eur grown roots, inawhich do not ot appear to be superior The Toot isis full ofof joints, ic: crooked, somewhat flatted onthe Aa |