STIZOLOBIUM.—COWIIAGE.

625

ration was formerly employed to arrest san-guineous and seminal discharges, and to di-minish the colliquative sweats of consump-tive patients. — Dose, half a dram, morningand evening.

PERSULPHURET OF TIN, MOSAIC GOLD.

Sulphnretum Stanni, Aurum mosaicum.(Ant.;Ferr.; Brugnatelli; CadetdeGassicourt; Niemann; Van Moss)

R. Powdered Tin, three ounces.

Suhlimed Sulphur, one ounce.

Put them into a crucible placed in burn-ing charcoal, and apply heat till a vividflame is produced ; then remove the crucible,cover it, set it apart to cool, and npallylevigate and sift the mass. (Ant. ; Ferr. ;Brognatelli ; Cadet de Gassicourt)

Van Mons directs seven parts of oxideof tin to be calcined with four and a half ofsulphur.

R. Chloruret of Tin, any quantity.

Pour into it,

Solution of Hydrosulphate of Potass,a sufficient quantity ;or, till it ceases to produce any precipitate.Dry this, and heat it to redness. (VanMons)

R. 1 in, twelve parts.

Mercury, _ three parts,

seven parts.

Sublimed Sulphur,

Hydrochlorate of Ammonia,

three parts.

Triturate together, and apply a gentle

heat till sulphurous acid gas ceases to be

disengaged ; then calcine slowly till a scaly,

yellow, brilliant mass remains. (Niemann)

VERMIFUGE POWDER. (VAN MoNs)

1!. Persulphuret of Tin, three part?.

Mercury, one part.

Triturate to the extinction of the mer-cury.

It is principally recommended againsttœnia. — Dose, from two drams to half anounce, in the morning, in conserve ofwormwood .

chloruret of tin.

Murías Stanni seu Oxyduli Stanni, Liquorfurnans Libavii, Stanni Butt/rum, StanniDeulo-hydrocltloras. (Bavar, ; Nie-mann ; Van Mons)

R. Tin, one part.

Concentrated Hydrochloric Acid,

three parts.Dissolve with heat, and crystallize.

It is violently purgative. — Dose, twograins. — Bavar. only indicates it as a che-mical test dissolved in nine parts of water,to ascertain the presence of gold.

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STATICE UMONTCUM, J.inn.-SEA LAVENDER.

Synonimes :— Marsh Rosemary, LavenderThrift. —Bellen rouge, Fu. ; Rother Be-ben, Limonienkraut, Meernelkengras,Germ.

■Batav. ; Bruns.; Gall; Genev. ; Pa-lat. ; WirtEM. ; Bergius ; Guibourt ;Murray and Gmelin ; Spielmann.

A plant which grows in the north of bothcontinents, on the sea shore. (Pentandria

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Pentagyma, Linn. ; Plombaginca>, Juss. ;Fig. CEd. Fl. Ban. t. 315)

The root [Radix Behen rvbri seu Limonii)is employed. It is met with in the shops,in round, wrinkled, arched, solid pieces, ofa brown colour externally and reddish in-ternally. Its odour is feeble, and its tasteastringent.

A congeneric species, the Statice Caro-liniana [Fig. Walter, Flor. Carol. 118), isindicated by Amer. ; and CoXE.

STIZOLOBIUM PRURIENS, P.-COWHAGE.

Synonimes :—Dolic/ios jirurietis, (Lond. ;Edinb. ; Dum,.)— Pois à gratter, Fr.;Kuhkrastze, Juckende faseln, Germ. ;Kosambiliwail, Dewipaghura, Cy'NG. ;Klcende banne, Dan.; Kaunchkurike-binge, Duk. ; Kiwack, Hind. ; Jeuk-boontijes,DvT. ; Dolico pizzicanle, Ital.;

Rawe, Jap.; Kapikachlin, Sans.; Fu-naykalie, Tau, ; Piliadugukaila, Tel.

Lond. ; Dubl. ; Edinb. ; Dan. ; Ferr. ;Sax. ; Suec. ; Wirtem. ; Ainsi.ie ;Bergius; Coxf. ; Murray and Gml-lin.4 L