Seat, Bee oe 
a. EUP—EUP 
_~ miles of Philadelphia, and nearly 70 species in the United 
States. Any two or three of them together, would form a 
. good subject for an experimental inaugural dissertation. 
- A species of Eupatorium (Satureiefolium, Lamark) is said 
__' by Mutis and Humboldt, to be considered as a powerful 
_- __-eounterpoison to the bite of serpents in the United States, 
f= * Virey’s Hist. Nat. of Medicine. 
- 254,—-KUPHORBIA OFFICINARUM. Officinal Eu- 
“Orrrersat. Euphorbiz gummi-resina. L. Euphorbium. 
a5 —o Jeff. Coll. No. 282—figure of the plant, 
me RO. . ; 
Most violently cathartic and emetic, also érrhine and rubifa- 
cient—on account of the violence of its action, not now 
used. Ht is rare in the shops—the Cabinet specimen I ob- 
" tained with difficulty. Though this is the plant which 
yields the chief part of the Euphorbium of Materia Medi- 
ca, others also yield some portion—viz. £u bia Anti- 
quorum and Euphorbia Canariensis (of Willd.) The whole 
genus contains an acrid suceus proprius, of a white colour, 
which, concreted, is the Euphorbium. The juice of Lu- 
tha tagona is used to poison arrows. The Luphor- 
bia triucalli is-cathartic, emetic ; the exhalations affect the 
_ eyes. This, and the Euphorbia piltlifera, are supposed 
’ to be anti-syphilitic. The indigenous species of the genus, 
which are medicinal, are the following Nos. 255—2536, 
Formula— RK Emplast. Picis comp. Ziv 2 
Euphorbia gum-resinz, ss 
Terebinth. vulgar. q. 3. 4 
A stimulating application, celebrated by Che- 
selden and others, to relieve diseases of the 
hip jot, and to keep up inflammation of 
the skin, in chronic states of visceral inflam- 
mation 
Caution—In pulverizing the Euphorbia,’ 
the dispenser should previously moisten it 
with vinegar, to ‘prevent its ‘rising and-ex- 
coriating his face. — 
No. 255,.—Evpuoraia Ipecacuanua. American 
Ipecacuanha. 
Orricinan. Hadix, [pecacuanha Spurge. U.S. 
_ Emetic. Fora detailed account, see W. P. C. Barton’s Veg. 
_ Mat. Med. U. S. Vol. .—Bigelow’s Med. Bot.—Ives’ ed. 
Cabinet specimens, Jeff. Coll. Nos, 284 and 285—figure of 
the plant, No. 286. a 
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