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EUONYMUS.—SPINDLE TREE.

treat it with alcohol at 50 degrees ; filter,and evaporate the tincture, which leavesthe oil for residuum.

L of each,fourounces.

R. Bruised Seeds of Caper-Spurge,jEther,

Macerate for twenty-four hours at theordinary temperature ; decant, filter, andevaporate the strained liquor in a water-hath : preserve the oil which remains.

This oil is strongly purgative. Calde-rini gives three drops of it to children oftwo or three years, and from four to eightdrops to adults". If the patient is irritable,eight drops are prescribed in emulsion. Itmay also be prescribed in syrup, in pills,or in olive oil.

According to Chevallier, the oil ofthe Euphorbia Cyparissias possesses nearlythe same properties.

EUPHRASIA OFFICINALIS, Linn.— EYE BRIGHT.

Synonimes : Euphraise, Fr. ; Augentrost,Germ. ; Oientrcest, Dan. ; Eufrasia,Ital. ; and Span. ; Ovgentroost, Dut. ;vEgentroest, Swed.

Bruns. ; Htsp. ; Gall. ; Wirtem. ; Ber-gius ; Murray and Gmelin ; Spiel-mann.

This plant is common in Europe. {Didy-namia Angiospermia, Linn. ; Pedicularia!,Juss. ; Fig. Flore Medic. III. 162.)

The herb (Herba Euphrasia! seu Euphra-giœ seu Ophthalmica) is employed. It con-sists of a branching, hairy stem, of a deep-brown colour, furnished with alternate,oval, glabrous, striated, nearly sessile leaves,acutely and deeply dentated. It is almostdestitute of odour ; and it has a bitterish,slightly aromatic and styptic taste.

It is feebly astringent.

distilled water of eye-bright.(Gall. ; Palat. ; Sard.)

R. Herb of Eye-bright, one part.

Water, two parts.

Distil one half. (Palat.)

Sard, directs two thirds to be distilled.

Gall, directs five thousand parts ofherb, and twelve thousand five hundredparts of water to be mixed together, and tenthousand parts to be distilled ; then tenthousand parts of fresh herb to be added tothe product, and lastly, the same quantityto be distilled again.

OPHTHALMIC POWDER.

Tragea ophthalmica. (Wirtem.)

R. Eye-bright,

Prepared Wood-lice,

Cubebs, } of each, one dram.

Fennel, three drams.

Cinnamon, one dram and a half.

White Sugar, three ounces.

Triturate and mix.

ten ounces,half an ounce.

EUONYMUS EUROPŒUS, Linn.— SPINDLE TREE.

Synonimes :— Fusain d'Europe, Bonnet deprêtre, Fr. ; Spendelbaum, Germ. ;Beenœd, Dan. ; Bonnetro, Span. ; Pe-penboom, Dut. ; Fussagine, Ital. ;Trzmiel, Pol. ; Barretta de Clérigo,Port. ; Alster, Swed.

Gall.

A shrub of Europe. {Pentandria Mono-gynia, Linn. ; Rhamneœ, Juss. ; Fig. Bull.Herb. t. 135.)

The fruit (Fructus Euonymi) is employed.

It is a capsule with four obtuse lobes, ofa shining red colour, and of an acrid andnauseous taste.