KINO.
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KADMIUM, ZINCUM SÍLESIACUM.
This is a very rare metal, and has notbeen very long discovered. Among its com-pounds, the following have been proposedto be employed in medicine.
OXIDE OF KADMIUM.
Oxyäian Kadmii. (Niemann)
R. Kadmium, any quantity.
Diluted Sulphuric Acid,
a sufficient quantity
to dissolve the metal. Let a current of hy-drosulphuric acid gas pass through the coldand filtered liquor : collect and wash theprecipitate, treat it with hot hydrochloricacid, and evaporate the solution nearly todryness : add water to the residue, and mixwith solution of ammonia. Wash and drythe precipitate.
The action of this oxide is not wellknown, nor indeed is that of the following
salt. But, according to some observationswhich have been made, it appears to possessirritant properties, and to be even poisonousin a small dose.
SULPHATE OF KADMIUM.
Sulplias Caämii, (Niemann)
R. Oxide of Kadmium, any quantity.
Sulphuric Acid, a sufficient quantity
to dissolve it. Evaporate, and crystallizethe liquor.
ophthalmic liquor. (Niemann)
R. Sulphate of Kadmium,
from two to eight grains.Distilled Water, one ounce.
Mix. — It is recommended externally, inchronic ophthalmia, by Graafe.
KALMTA LATIFOLIA, Linn— MOUNTAIN LAUREL.
COXE.
A plant of Carolina and Virginia. (Ve-candria Monogynia, Linn. ; Rhodoraceœ,Juss. ; Fig. Trew. Ehret, t. 38, f. 1.)
The leaves are oval, oblong, firm, veryglabrous, entire, and from two to threeinches in length and one inch wide.
It is astringent [and poisonous, Edit.].
decoction of mountain laurel.
Decociurn Kalmite latifoliœ. (Niemann)
R. Leaves of Mountain Laurel, one ounce.Spring Water, eight ounces.
Boil down to one half, and strain.
It is recommended in chronic diarrhoea.— Dose, thirty drops, sixty times a day, tillthe patient becomes affected with vertigo.
KINO.
Synonimes :— Gummi Kino, Gummi Gam-biense, Gummi adstringens FothergilU. —Kino, Gomme Kino, Gomme de Gambie,Fr. ; Kinoharz, Kinogumini, Gambien-sergummi, Germ.; Tumble hoan, Tam. ;Dummulackwavn, Kandamurgarittum,Tel.
Lond. ; Dubl. ; Edinb. ; Amte. ; Amst.;Ant. ; Batav. ; Bavar.; Belg. ; Dan. ;Gall. ; Ferr. ; Fenn. ; Fuld. ;Hasn. ; Hass. ; Lipp. ; Olden. ; Lu-sit. ; Pol. ; Borus. ; Sax. ; Suec. ;Wirtem. ; Brugnatelli ; Coxe ; Gui-
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bohrt ; Murray and Gmelin ; Paris ;Spielmann; Zarda.
Three principal kinds of kino are distin-guished.
1. In irregular, dry, brittle masses of adeep-brown colour, opaque, inodorous, ofa brilliant and nearly black fracture, and ofan astringent and bitterish taste. It is sup-posed to be produced by evaporating todryness, a decoction of the branches of theNauclea longiflora, Poir. {PcntandriaMonogynia, Linn. ; Rubiaceee, Juss.), ashrub of the Indies (Fig. Rumph. Ami. V.tab. 34. f. 1.)
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