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Salutary Detersive Drops. A nostrum of which the basis is cor-rosive sublimate.Salve. A popular term for ointments, cerates, &c. It is seldom used

now except in the instance of Lip-salve, &c.Salvia Officinalis Folia. E. D. P. Sage. The Codex enumeratesthree other species which have similar properties.Incompatible with the sulphate and other salts of iron.Medicinally sage is aromatic, bitter, tonic, astringent, carminative, dia-phoretic, stomachic, and nervine. The dose is gr. xv to 9j in formof powder. The infusion may be used ad libitum. Van Sweitenrecommends the tincture in engorgements of the mamma? from milkat the period cf weaning. It is also used in form of gargle as afeeble astringent, and the leaves in form of cataplasm.Sambuci Flores. L. E. D. P. Elder Flowers. The berries and barkare also used. Samlmcus niger. The flowers have a heavy odour,and bitterish taste, and are diaphoretic and resolvent. They areused for preparing a distilled water employed in collyria, and inscenting the Ung. Sambuci.The Berries are acidulous and sweetish, contain malic acid, and arediaphoretic and aperient, the expressed juice, or the Rob, beinggiven in rheumatic fever and febrile eruptions. Dose Jj to ^ij.The Bark, particularly the interior bark, is bitter, cathartic, andhydragogue, as well as the leaf-buds, and may be given in anasarcaand hvdrothorax in doses of gr. v to 3j of the substance or powderthrice a day, or in form of tincture or decoction.Enters into Succ. Spiss. Sambuci Nig. E. D. Ung. Sambuci. L. D.Samfhire. Crilhmum maritimum. A native plant which grows onrocks on the sea coast, as on the chalk cliffs at Dover. It is used asa pickle and is stimulant.Sandarac. P. A gum derived from the Juniperis communis, or fromthe Thya arliculata. It is stimulant and astringent, but is seldomemployed medicinally. Its chief use is to make pounce for preventingink from sinking in paper, and for making varnishes.Sanguinaria Canadensis. Blood Root. The root of this plant isacrid, bitter, slightly escharotic ; in doses of gr. j to gr. ij, stimulant,expectorant, and tonic; in doses of gr. viij to 3j infused in warmwater it is emetic; and in more moderate doses it is an acrid narcotic,diminishing the pulse like digitalis. (Eberle.)Medicinally it is prescribed in typhoid peripneumony, incipient phthisis,croup, jaundice, pertussis, and hepatitis.Sanguinarine. The alkaline base of the Sanguinaria Canadensis.

(Dana.)Sanguis Duaconis. E. P. See Dragon's Blood.

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