= BRU—BRU 
pIcaL Prorenties anp Uses. Stimulant, diaphoretic. 
Formerly, much used in affections of the chest—now, only 
to give a fragrant smell to sick rooms, by burning it in - 
them; and as incense, in Greek and Roman chapels. I 
am of opinion, that we have discarded this article without 
reason : its delicious ce, and its balsamic pro- 
iced me to prescribe it as an inhalation, 
sis and angina; and its good effects have 
been so manifest, that I recommend it as an expectorant, 
in this form of exhibition, particularly well suited to the 
strictures of the chest and dyspnea attending inflamed 
tubercles, in scrofulo-phthisical subjects, For this reason, 
I have particularly noticed it. 
No. 118—Brucea AntIpysenrerica. (Bruce.) 
Cabinet specimen, Jeff. Coll. No. 134. 
Brucea Ferruginea. (L’Heretier.) 
date in ca a where it is indigenous. 
ngustura pseudo- inea. ( Orfila’s Toxicol.) 
rare eng ear | 
Dioicia Tetrandria. Nat. fam. (Juss.) Quassia. 
False Angustura—Fine Angustura. 
A middling-sized shrub, branches few, alternate, patulous, 
_ round and thick.; leaves alternate, spreading, unequally 
pinnate ; flowers crowded together, colour herbaceous, 
tinged with red or russet ; root valuable in dysentery; is a 
simple bitter, without aroma or resinous taste, leaving in 
the throat a roughness resembling that from ipecacuanha, 
This species yields Brucia, which see. 
The bark of this tree is met with in commerce, and has been 
called by druggists fine Angustura and false Angustura. 
It comes in pieces rolled up, of a yellowish- ey colour 
inside—some of them have the epidermis affected with 
scattered whitish excrescences; others covered with a 
brown pulverulent substance, resembling the rust of iron; 
other pieces are more or less polished, sometimes rugose, — 
and maculated with coloured spots—these are generally | 
_ thicker than the other pieces. The powder is of a grey 
colour, looking and smelling like ipecacuanha; it is in- 
‘tensely bitter, and nauseates most persons. Orfila, who 
calls it Angustura pseudo-ferruginea, has shown that it 
acts like nus vomiea, St. Ignatius bean, and Upas antiar. 
It appears, from the account of Professor Emmert, of ex- - 
periments he made at Bonne, on a species of Ang 
to which Rambach first gave, in 1804, the name of An 
tura virosa, to be identical with the one under r notice. 
He also found it a violent poison, A child died, 
g the decoction in mistake. 
