PISTACHIA TEREBINTHUS. 
from experience the pure resin has been found to have little or no 
cathartic quality, and the extractive part, when separated from the 
former, generally acts more powerfully than the crude aloes. Soco- 
trine Aloes acts with more violence than the Hepatic, and this is 
supposed to arise from the former containing more extractive than 
the latter, hence the Socotrine Aloes is most proper when a stimu- 
lant is required. 
The various kinds of aloes may be given in doses of from five to 
twenty grains, either alone or in combination with bitters or aromatics. 
It is said that larger doses do not act , more effectually. Aloes are 
said to form one of the chief and most active ingredients in many 
patent medicines.* 
Off. Extract of Aloes 
Off. Pp. Extractum Aloes, D. ' 
Pilulae Aloeticze, E. D. 
Aloes comp. L. 
• et Assafoetidae, E. 
c. Myrrh, L. E. D, 
Pulvis Aloes comp. L. 
Tinctura Aloes, L. E. D. 
' • comp. E. D. 
iEtherea, E. 
Vinum Aloes, L. E. D. 
Aloes also form an ingredient in some other compound medicines 
of the Pharmacopoeias. 
PISTACHIA TEREBINTHUS. 
Chian, or Cyprus Turpentine Tree.'\ 
Class Di(EGik.— Order Pentandria. 
Nat. Order. Amentace^, Linn. TEREBiNTACEiE, Juss. 
* A catalogue of these, with their combinations, will be found in Gray's Supplement 
to the Pharmacopoeias. 
t Fig. a. a female flower, magnified, b. A male flower.—Our drawing represents 
the female plant. 
