AcONITUM NAPELLUs. ORD. XXVI. Multisilique. «ABS 
This plant has been generally prepared as an extract or inspis-' 
sated juice, after the manner directed in the Edinburgh and many 
of the foreign pharmacopceias,* and like all virulent medicines, it 
should be first administered in small doses. Stoerck recommends 
two grains of the extract to be rubbed into a powder, with two 
drams of sugar, and to begin with ten grains of this powder two — 
or three times a day. We find however, that the extract is often 
given from one grain to ten for a dose, and Stoll, Schenckbecher, 
and others, increased this quantity very considerably. Instead of 
the extract, a tincture has been made of the dried leaves, macerated 
in six times their weight of spirits of wine, and forty drops gives 
for a dose. 
* Tis efficacy is much diminished on being long kept. 
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DICTAMNUS ALBUS. WHITE FRAXINELLA, 
Or, BASTARD DITTANY. 
SYNONYMA. Dictamnus albus. Pharm. Edinb. Dictamnus 
albus sive Fraxinella. Bauh. Pin. p. 222. -Fraxinella. Gerard 
Emac. p. 1245. Morris, Hist. iii. p. 456. Tourn, Inst. p. 430: 
Fraxinella flore purpureo & albo. Park. Parad. p. 333. Fraxi- 
nella, &c. Rati Hist.p.698. J. Bauh, iii. p.494. Hal. Stirp. 
Helv. n. 1029. Miller’s Figures, tab. 123. Jacquin, Flor. Aust. 
tab. 428. «Flore niveo. g Flore rubro. 
Class Decandria. Ord. Monogynia, Lin. Gen. Plant, 522. 
Ess. Gen. Ch. Cal. 5-phyllus. Petala 5, patula. Filamenta 
punctis glandulosis adspersa. Caps. 5, coalite. 
Sp. Ch. C. foliis pinnatis caule simplici. Supp. p. 232. 
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