BOTANIC MATERIA MEDICA, 187 
¥% to 1 ounce, not officinal and rarely prescribed, 
used only as a domestic remedy. Rosemary 
occurs in the stores in neatly compressed pack- 
ages, usually containing an ounce, which is 
made up of the twigs, leaves and flowers. The 
Rosemary is one of the ingredients in the offici- 
nal vinum aromaticum. 
Salva, Sage, Salvia Officinalis.—Natural or- 
der Labiatz. This little perennial plant is a 
native of Europé, but naturalized in many parts 
of the world and cultivated as a medicine and 
condiment. In height it ranges from 1 to 2 
feet, with many branches adorned with small 
ovate, lanceolate wrinkled leaves, entire as to 
their edges, of a grayish-green color, and pu- 
bescent as to their surface. Odor aromatic and 
of its own kind; taste bitter, astringent and 
agreeable to most persons, and highly thought 
of as a flavor to soups, meats, etc. The sage 
contains resin, tannin, albumen, extractive mat- 
ter, volatile oil; also two radicals, Salzo/, or Salol, 
and Jerpene, both new remedies. The flowers 
of the Sage infloresce in spikes and the corollas 
are blue in color, alternately lined or streaked 
with white and purple and lip-shaped; the calyx 
is tubular, with two lips; the flower has two 
stamens and one pistil. Sage is a very old rem- 
edy, and has been used as a tonic, stimulant and 
astringent, and administered in form of an in- 
fusion or mixed with honey; now rarely pre-- 
scribed. Dose of the infusion 1 to 2 fluid ounces ; 
one of the ingredients of the officinal vinum 
aromaticum. 
Stramonii, Stramonium, Datura Stramo- 
nium,—Natural order Solanacee. Common 
