374 MATER i A MEDIC A AND THERAPEUTICS. 



chemical nature of which, is unknown, and a quantity of 

 inactive substances, such as salts, fixed oils, etc. 

 Dose. 5 to 10 gr. 



ACTION AND USES. 



Musk is a powerful stimulant of the circulatory and nervous 

 organs, acting probably much like turpentine and other volatile 

 oils, i.e. chiefly reflexly from the nose, mouth, and stomach. 

 It appears to enter the blood and tissues, and there rapidly 

 causes depression, so that in full doses its stimulant effect is 

 extremely evanescent. The drug is now but seldom used, 

 chiefly as an antispasmodic in hysteria, laryngismus, and hiccup, 

 and as a stimulant in fevers and pneumonia, when other 

 measures have failed, and not then with much success. 



Scvimi Prreparanim PREPARED SUET. The 

 internal fat of the abdomen of the sheep, Ovis Aries, 

 purified by melting and straining. 



Characters. White, smooth, almost scentless; fusible at 

 103. 



Composition. Suet is composed of olein and stearin. See 

 Adeps Prceparatus. 



Preparation. 



Sapo Animalis. Curd Soap. Made with Soda and Prepared 

 Fat. Contained in several suppositories, and Pilula 

 Scammonii Composita. 



Suet is also contained in Emplastrum Cantharidis and 

 Unguentum Hydrargyri. 



ACTION AND USES. 



Suet is emollient, and used in the above preparations. 

 Internally it is nutritive. 



SacclmmmLiactfs SUGAR OF MILK. C 12 H 24 Oi2. 

 A crystallised sugar, obtained from the whey of Milk 

 by evaporation. 



Characters. Usually in cylindrical masses, two inches in 

 diameter, with a cord or stick in the axis, or in fragments of 

 cakes ; greyish-white, crystalline on the surface and in its 

 texture, translucent, hard ; scentless, faintly sweet, gritty when 

 chewed. .Readily soluble in water. 



