252 MEDICAL BOTANY. 



CROTON. 



360. Cascarilla. Bark aromatic and fragrant. 



361. Eleuteria. Bark bitter, aromatic, tonic, stimulant. Produces 



Cascarilla. 



363. Tiglium. Seeds drastic. 

 369. Aromaticum. Bark of the root aromatic and purgative. 



RICINUS. 



374. Communis. Seeds cathartic. Produces Castor-oil. 



JATROPHA. 



375. Curcas. Seeds emetic and drastic. Leaves rubefacient and 



discutient. 

 377 a. Multifida The seeds are excellent emetics and purgatives. 



JANIPHA. 



378. Manihot. Expressed juice poisonous. Fecula nutritive. Pro- 

 duces Cassava and Tapioca. 



MERCURIALIS. 



384. Perennis. Very poisonous, producing vomiting and diarrhoea. 



385. Annua. Poisonous. 



HIPPOMANE. 



389. Mancinella. Juice caustic and venomous. Acrid. Manchineel. 



HURA. 



390. Crepitans. Milk very venomous, producing blindness. Seeds 



a drastic purgative. An emetic. 



EUPHORBIA. 

 393. Tirucalli. Milk a remedy for siphilis; cathartic and emetic. 



395. Antiquorum. Bark of the root purgative. Produces Euphor- 



bium. 



396. Canariensis. Milk purgative. Produces Euphorbium. 



397. Heptagona. The milk is a mortal poison. 



398. Officinarum. Milk purgative. Produces Euphorbium. 



400. Nereifolia. Juice of the leaves purgative, deobstruent, and 



diuretic. 



401. Gerardiana. Bark of the root cathartic and emetic. 



402. Lathyris. Seeds drastic. Bark of the root and stems cathartic 



and emetic. 



403. Esula. A dangerous poison. 



404. Cyparissias. A virulent poison. 



405. Thymifolia. Violent purgative. Vulnerary, anthelmintic. 



406. Ipecacuanha. Root powerfully emetic and cathartic. 



