620 EMETINE.—EMETINUM.
DRYMIS WINTERI, Forst.— WINTER'S BARK TREE.
Synokimes: — Wintera aromática, Edinb.;Drymis aromática, Dubl. — Ecorce deWinter, Canelle de Magellan, Fr.
Edinb.; Dubl.; Amst.; Adstr. ; Bata v. ;Bavab. ; Belg. ; Bruns. ; Hisp. ;Gall. ; Fuld. ; Hamb. ; Ross. ; Sax. ;
WlRTEM. ; HERBIP. ; BeRGIUS ; BrüG-
natelli ; Coxe ; Guibourt ; Mur-ray and Gmelin ; Saunders ; Spiel-mann.
A tree of South America. {PoJyandria,Polyginia, Linn. ; Magnoliaceœ, Juss. ; Fig,Desc. Flor. Ant. I. 40.)
The bark {Cortex Winteranus seu Ma-gellanicus Cinnamomum Magellanicum) isemployed. It is thick, rolled into quills ofabout three or four inches long, unequal,
of an ash-colour without, reddish or cinna-mon coloured within, compact, hard, andrugose. It has a very penetrating odour,and an acrid, aromatic, pungent, and evenburning taste.
It is an energetic stimulant, and anti-scorbutic.
Dose, from a scruple to half a dram ofthe powder.
tincture of winter's bare.
Tinctura seu Essentia Corticum Wintera-norum. (Bruns.)
R. Pulverized Winter's Bark, four ounces.Rectified spirits, one pound and a half.Digest for four days, and filter.
ECHIUM VULGARE, Linn.— VIPER'S BUGLOSS.
Synonimes :— Vipérine, Fr. ; Natterkoph,Germ.; Slangenkund, Dut.; Bruns.;Gall.
A very common European plant. {Pen-tandria Monogynia, Linn. ; Boragineœ,Juss. ; Fig. Zorn, Je, pi. t. 149.)
The root and herb are employed.The root {Radix Viperina;) has a styptictaste.
The herb consists of a tuberculous stem,bristled with hairs, and furnished with lan-ceolated, sessile, hispid, entire leaves.
EMETINE, EMETINUM.
Bavar. ; Gall. ; Ferr. ; Niemann.
R. Pulverized Ipecacuanha, one ounce.Sulphuric jEther (GO degrees) ,
two ounces.
Digest for several hours in a moderateheat ; then triturate, macerate, and boil theresidue with
Alcohol, (40 degrees), four ounces.
Strain : repeat this last operation twiceor thrice with fresh alcohol. Mix togetherthe alcoholic tinctures, and evaporate todryness. Macerate the extract in a sufficientquantity of cold distilled water, to take upall the soluble matter which it contains ;filter the solution, and evaporate it to dry-ness. (Gall. Ferr. ; Niemann)
Bavar. gives the same process, but omitsthe preliminary maceration in aether.
Pectoral Pastiles. (Ferr. ; Cadet deGassicourt ; Fee; Henri; Magen-die ; p1ero.uin)
R. Emetine, thirty two grains.
Sugar, four ounces.
Carmine, a sufficient quantity.
Make pastilles of nine grains each. — Dose,one every hour.
emetic pastilles. (Ferr. ; BoRIES ;Fee; Henri; Magendie ; Pierquin;Ratier)
R. Emetine, thirty-two grains.
Sugar, two ounces.
Make pastilles of eighteen grains each. —Dose, one, fasting, for children ; three orfour, for adults.
This formula is for coloured or impureemetine; if pure emetine is employed, eightgrains only are required to four ounces ofsugar, to be formed into pastilles of ninegrains each.