1 6 T^IGNONIA CEJiJ. 



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from 



ounces 



d 



application to wounds, fractures, &g., and of the root : 

 in dropsy. 



Dr. B. Evers.statos that the Gonds call the tree 

 and that they employ a decoction of the bark as a discutieut 

 application to rheumatic swellings. He says:— "I have made 

 a trial of the powder and an infusion of the bark, and have 

 found it to bo most powerfully diaphoretic; the drug has slight 

 anodyne properties; also a bath, prepared with the bark, I 

 have frequently employed in rheumatism. Twenty-eight cases 

 of acute rheumatism were treated with this drug, and in all the 

 results have been most satisfactory. The dose °of the powder 



s, thrice daily ; of the infusion ( 1 ounce 

 of boiling water) an omice three times a 

 ^ Combined with opium it forms a much more powerful 

 sudorific than the compound powder of ipecacuanha. The drug 

 does not. possess any febrifuge properties.''— /;?(?w>i 3Iedical 

 Gazette, February and March, 1875. 



Description. — The bark of the root is brown externally, 

 yellow internally, thick, breaking with a short fracture. That 

 of the stem is soft and spongy externally, and of a pale brown 

 colour, furrowed longitudinally ; the internal surface is fibrous 

 and greenish yellow. The minute structure does not call for 

 remark, but upon idacing a section of the fresh bark under the 

 microscope in a little water the whole field is seen to be filled 

 with- delicate needle-shaped crystals which have escaped from 

 the cut cells of the parenchyma; in entire cells the crystnls, 

 which are of an inorganic nature, can be seen in situ. The bark 

 IS faintly bitter and a little acrid; it has no particular odour. 



Chemical composiiion,~T\o bark lias been examined by W. A- 

 IL Naylor and E. ^I. Chaplin with the foUowin- results: 



A. 



<.r^i 



to fine powder was per 



la tea to exhaustion with cold petroleum ether. The ether 



tilled 



uc, which weighed about 1*8 errui", 



r--s,„l tl,e cluuac- n-s of a so£t grcenish-brov™ fat, h°vmg 

 a.. ;.c„l ,., .„„„ ,„a a di^Ktly .cdd taatc. It was treu. J 

 ""'• "•'" '"''' >=tl"-T, auJ pr„.f spirit ; the former rgmovcd 



