MEZEREON 279 



A crystalline bitter glucoside, daphnin, has also been isolated, as well 

 as a fixed oil, and a substance resembling euphorbone, neither of 

 which is acrid. 



j. Mezereon is a powerful local irritant capable of producing 

 vesication. Internally it is stimulant, and in large doses an irritant 

 poison ; it is, however, seldom administered internally, and although 

 frequently employed in the south of France as an irritant, finds but 

 little use in this country. 



CASCARILLA BARK 



(Cascarilla, Cortex Cascarillse) 



Source, &c. Cascarilla bark is obtained from Croton Eleuteria, 

 J. J. Bennett (N.O. Euphorbiacece), a shrub or small tree indigenous 



FIG. 139. Cascarilla bark. A, large ; B, medium ; C, 

 small. All natural size. 



to the Bahama Islands, the name cascarilla having its origin probably 

 in the resemblance this bark bears to small quilled cinchona bark, 

 which was formerly caUed cascarilla (the diminutive of the Spanish 

 cdscara, bark). 



