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AURUM.— GOLD.
It is emollient and sedative. — It is appliedto indurated tumours of the breast and ofthe testes.
2. Atropa Mandragora, Linn. — Mandrake.
Synonimes :—Mandragore, Fr. ; Alraun,Germ. ; Ustrung, Arab. ; Yeb-ruy,Beng. ; Mandragora, Span, and Ital. ;Luckmuna, luckmini, Hind. ; Alruin,Dut. ; Merdum giah, Pers. ; Pokrzyk-ziele, Pol. ; Caatjutie, Tam.
Bruns; Hisp. ; Gall.; Ferr. ; Genev. ;Wirtf.m. ; Herbip.; Ainslie ; Ber-gius ; Brugnatelli ; Guibourt ;Murray and Gmelin ; Spielmann ;Ph. Syph.
A plant of the middle of Europe and theLevant. (Fig. Bull. Herb. 1. 145 and 146.)
The root (Radix Mandragortp) is em-ployed.
It is thick, long, fusiform, simple or bi-furcated. It is reddish without, and whi-tish within. It has a disagreeable, nau-seous, and stnpefactive odour ; and a bitter,acrid, and nauseous taste.
It is slightly narcotic. It was formerlyesteemed a powerful aphrodisiac.
Dose, three grains. It is seldom used,and always externally.
DISCUTIENT CATAPLASM. (Ph. SYPH.)
R. Root of Mandrake, in powder,
any quantity.Water, a sufficient quantity.
Boil to the consistence of a cataplasm.
AURUM.—GOLD.
Synonimes :— Or, Fr. ; Gold, Germ, andSwed. ; Tibi Zeheb., Arab. ; Run. ;Cyng. ; Luna, Duk. and Hind. ; Guld,Dan.; Oro, Ital.; Sona Swarna, Mah.;Mas, Mal. ; Zir, Tilla, Swarna, Suvarna,Sans. ; Pivon, Tam. ; Bungarum, Tel.
Amer. ; Amst. ; Ant. ; Bata v. ; Bavar. ;
Belg. ; Bruns. ; Hisp. ; Gall. ; Fenn.;
Hann. ; Hass. ; Lipp. ; Sax.; Suec. ;
Wirtem. ; Herbip. ; Ainslie ; Coxe ;
Piderit; Guibourt; Spielmann.
A solid, yellow, brilliant metal ; inodo-rous and insipid ; and possessing consider-able hardness. It is crystallizable in qua-drangular pyramids, fusible at about 32 de-grees of the pyrometer, not volatile, and un-alterable by the air. It is the most malleableand ductile of all the metals, being reduci-ble into leaves of 6™,00009 of thickness.Its specific gravity is 19,257.
divided gold. (Niemann)
R. Gold, in leaves, one part.
Mercury, six parts.
Make an amalgam by triturating themtogether in an earthen mortar ; then takeup the mercury with hot nitric acid, anddry and pulverize the residuum.
Leaf gold may also be triturated withhoney and gum arabic ; the mixture dilutedwith hot water, the liquor filtered, and thedivided gold remaining on the filter, dried.
It is recommended by Chrestien in sy-philis, scrofula, and goitre ; to be rubbedupon the tongue and gums. — Dose, fromhalf a grain to five grains a day. [Verycautiously and gradually increased. En.]
syrup of gold.Topique aurifique. (Bories ; Pieröuin)
R. Divided Gold, twenty-four grains.
Simple or Gum Syrup, one ounce.
Mix intimately.
It is recommended by Niel, in lotions,applied to syphilitic ulcers of the uvula andvelum palati.
anti-syphilitic ointment. (Bories. ;Pierquin)
R. Divided Gold, one dram.
Lard, half an ounce.
Triturate together. (Pierquin)
Bories and PiERauiN also prescribe sixgrains of gold and half an ounce of cerate.
These two ointments were introduced byNiel. They are employed, the first fordressing cancers; and the second for rub-bing upon indolent bulioes.
CHLORURET OF GOLD.
Chloruretum Auri, Aurum muriaticum, Mu-rías Auri. (Amer. ; Bavar. ; Gall. ;Ferr. ; Hann. ; Coxe ; Niemann ;Van Mons)
R. Gold, in leaves, one part.
Hydrochloro-nitric Acid, three parts.
Digest in a sand-hath moderately heated,and evaporate the solution, very gradually,to dryness.
It is anti- syphilitic, and diaphoretic. —Dose, one tenth of a grain, in the day.