262 PHARMACOPEIAL DRUGS 



gargle for relaxed uvula and sore throat, a good stimu- 

 lating astringent lotion for ulcers with spongy granula- 

 tions, and an astringent injection for leucorrhea, pro- 

 lapsus ani, hemorrhoids, etc. A poultice of the ground 

 bark has often proved of service in gangrene and 

 mortification. 



"In sickly, debilitated children, and in severe diar- 

 rheas, especially when the result of fevers, the decoction 

 given internally, and used as a bath to the body and 

 limbs, two or three times a day, will be found very 

 efficacious. When given for diarrhea or dysentery, it 

 should be combined with aromatics, and sometimes 

 with castor oil. A bath is often advantageous in some 

 cutaneous diseases. The green bark of elder and white 

 oak, bruised together, or in strong decoction, forms a 

 very useful and valuable application to abrasions." 



QUILLAJA (Quillaja, Soap Bark) 



Named only in the U. S. P.'s from 1880 to 1900. Dropped 

 from 1910. 



Quillaja Saponaria, soapbark, named by Molina (444) 

 in 1782 in his History of Chili, is the bark of a South 

 American tree, having similar qualities to other soap 

 weeds or barks, derived from various plants and trees, 

 and used by the natives of different countries as a sub- 

 stitute for soap, or rather as a material for purposes 

 similar to those of soap. Among the first contributions 

 to the literature of saponaria is that of Henry, Jr., and 

 Boutron Charlard, Amer. Journ. of Pharm., 1841, p. 209, 

 (17b), in which the now well-known acrid, frothing 

 qualities of the drug are mentioned, the statement 

 being that the name originated from the Chilean term 

 quilloan, to wash. In the American Medical Intelli- 

 gencer, Sept. 15, 1840, Dr. Ruschenberger, of the 



