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GELATINA.— GELATINE.
Niemann prescribes four grains of gam-boge and two drams of the saline liquor. —Herbip. — two drams of gamboge, onepound of water, and two drams of deli-quesced subcarbonate of potass.
Dose, fifteen drops, every three hours, indropsy.
GAMBOGE SOAP. (LlPP. ; NIEMANN)
R. Gamboge, in powder, six ounces.
Caustic Potass, three drams.
Distilled Water, nine ounces.
Boil till the commencement of union ;then add
Caustic Potass, two drams and a half.
Dissolved in
Distilled Water, four ounces.
Continue to boil, and evaporate slowly todryness.
Dose, from three grains to a scruple.
TINCTURE OF GAMBOGE. (VAN MoNs)
R. Gamboge, • one part.
Alcohol, six parts.
Infuse without heat for several days, andstrain.
ALKALINE TINCTURE OF GAMBOGE.(LlPP.)
R. Gamboge, half an ounce.
Subcarbonate of Potass, one ounce.
Proof Spirit, one pound.
Digest for four days, in a moderate heat,and filter.
AMMONIACAL TINCTURE OF GAMBOGE.
Tinctura Gummi guttœ seu Gambogiœ am-moniata seu ammoniacata. (Swediaur ;Ph. Syph.)
R. Gamboge, thirty-six grains.
Spirit of Ammonia, four ounces.
Digest for eight days, and filter.
It is excitant. — Dose, one or two drams,morning and evening, in a proper vehicle.
GAULTHERIA PROCUMBENS, Linn.— MOUNTAIN TEA.
Synonimes :— Partridge Berry,rie couchée, Fr.
Amer. ; Coxe.
-Gaulthé-
A small shrub of North America. (De-candriaMonogynia, Linn. ; Ericineœ, Juss. ;Fig. Enc. meth. tab. 367.)
The leaves are employed ; they arenearly sessile, oval, widely serrated, andabout an inch in length.
It is said to be stimulant and anodyne, •and is prescribed in asthma.
oil of mountain tea.
Oleum distillatum Gaultheriœ. (Amer. ;Coxe)
R. Leaves of Mountain Tea, any quantity.Water, a sufficient quantity.
Distil, and separate the oil which passesover.
GELATINA.— GELATINE.
There is a considerable number of sub-stances found in the lists of materia medica,especially of the older pharmacopoeias,which are entirely destitute of any medi-cinal virtue, except such as may result fromthe gelatine which they contain. Such, forinstance, are the neck of mutton, fillet ofveal, leg of beef, meat of chicken, etc.which are met with in a great many for-mulae. But the greater part of these sub-stances were only introduced into medicineupon the faith of ignorant and superstitiousempirics, who attributed ridiculous imagi-nary properties to them. We bring themall together under this article, adding tothem various animal matters which, if theydo not contain gelatine, contain mucus,
which is a principle exceedingly analogousto it : for although there exist between thesesome chemical distinctions, yet they oughtnot to be separated when their connectionwith therapeutics is considered.
1. Colla.— Glue.Hisp.
This is prepared with clippings of leatherboiled in water. It is in yellowish plates orsheets, and more or less translucent.
2. Ichthyocolla, Colla Piscium.—Yish Glue,
Isinglass.
Synonimes:— Ichthyocolle, Colle de pois-