This section is from the book "Recent Materia Medica: Notes On Their Origin And Therapeutics", by F. Harwood Lescher. Also available from Amazon: Recent materia medica.
Anemone Pulsatilla. Pasque Flower. Indigenous. X.O. Banunculacea. Valuable in amenorrhoea, leucorrhoea, bronchitis, etc. Dose of tincture (1 in 10), 3 to 10 minims; dose of fl. ext., 1 to 5 minims.
Cucurbita Maxima and Cucurbita Pepo. N. 0. Cucurbitacecę.
The former is probably a variety of C. Pepo, a species inhabiting the Levant. The active taenicidal principle is the resinoid in the outer portion of the innermost coat of the perisperm of the seed. For tape-worm: dose, 4 ounces of seeds pounded so as to make, with water, an emulsion of 1 pint; to be drunk in four portions on an empty stomach, preceded by an aperient.
A clear, colourless, volatile fluid, strongly disagreeable in odour and taste: soluble in water and alcohol. S. G. 980; boiling at 242° F. It is now considered as the base or nucleus of many alkaloids.
Therapeutics. For asthma 1 drachm is poured on a plate, and inhaled: a powerful remedy, worth trying. Its sulphate has been similarly employed. A strong heart-excitant in doses of 5 drops in water.
From Quassia wood; in slender, colourless, iridescent needle crystals; soluble in water, alcohol and acetic acid. A bitter tonic febrifuge.
Aspidosperma Quebracho. Argentine Republic N. 0. Apocynacecę.
Large pale-brown pieces, with thick, greyish, furrowed, corky layer. Contains six alkaloids, Aspidespermine, Quebrachine, etc. [Quebracho Colorado is Loxopterygium Lorentzii; the wood is used by French tanners; it is essentially different from true Quebracho.]
Therapeutics. In pulmonary disease, it stimulates by supplying oxygen to the venous blood; in dyspnoea is an antipyretic. Dose, fluid extract, 1 drachm; tincture (1 in 5 proof spirit), 1/2 to 2 drachms.
Q. Bihydrobromate. Neutral Q. Bromide. C20 H24 N2 02. 2HB. 3H2 0.
Soluble in 7 parts of water; it does not produce headache; 1 to 3 grains.
 
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