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Show 52 COMMON SAVIN. other plant I have employed; but I have been frequentlydis. appointedin this, and its heating qualities always require a great deal of caution.”” Dr. Home appears to have had very great success with this medicine; for in five cases of amenorrhoa which occurred at the royal infirmary at Edinburgh, four were cured by the sabina*, which he gave in powder fromascruple to a drachm twice a day. He says it is well suited to the debile, but improperin plethoric habits, and therefore orders repeated bleedings before its exhibition. Externally savin is re. commended as an escharotic to foul ulcers, syphilitic warts, &c. +; also an excellent drawing ointment forissues is prepared with the powder. OFFICINAL Extract or Savin. PREPARATIONS. (Extractum Foliorum Sabine. L. D.) The vegetable matter is to be boiled, in eight times its weight of water, to one-half; the liquor is then to be expressed, and, after the feces have subsided, to befiltered; it is then to be evaporated, with a heat between 200° and 212°, until it becomes thickish ; andlastly, it is to be evaporated with a heat less than IRA BRAVA. CISSAMPELOS PAREIRA. 20°, andfrequently stirred, until it acquire a consistence proper for forming pills. The dose is fromsix grains to twenty. ‘¢ ¥ think,” says Dr. Monro, * both this extract and that of the rue would be better medicines if the plants werefirst infused in spirits before they were boiled; and when the extracts were nearly of a properconsistence, if the tinctures thus drawn were added to them; by this means they would possess more of the aromatic virtues of the plant, and contain the resinous as well as the gummous parts of it.” eS Class XXIE. Dicecia. Order X11. Monadelphia. Essent. Gen. Caar. F Male flower—Calyx four-leaved: Corolla none: Nectary rotate: Stamina four. SE Savin Ointment. (Unguentum Sabine. D.) Take of fresh savin leaves, separated from the stalks, and bruised, half a pound; prepared hog’s lard, two pounds; yellow wax, half a pound: Boil the leaves in the lard until they become crisp; then filter with expression; lastly, add the wax, and melt them together. This is an excellant issue ointment, being, in many respects, preferable to those of cantharides. It is mixed with equal parts blistering ointment in order to keep up a discharge. * Clinical Experiments, p. 387. + Fabre, Mal. Vener. t. i. p. 363. Female flower—Calyx one-leafed, ligu- late roundish: Corella none: Styles three: Berry one-seeded, Srec. Cuar. Leaves peltate, cordate, emarginate, DESCRIPTION. Srarxs numerous, climbing. Leaves roundish, entire, covered withsoft hairs, supported by long footstalks. Flowers incon- spicuous, of a greenish colour, arising from the ale of the leaves, HISTORY. This is a, perennial climbing plant, which grows in the West India islands, and in Sauth America. The root, which is offi. cinal, is brought to us from Brazil, in pieces of verydifferent Sizes ; it is crooked, and variously wrinkled on the surface; outwardly of a dark colour, internally of a dull yellow, andin. terwoven with woodyfibres; so that, upon a transverse section, |