Sarcocephalus Esculentus

(See Doundake.)

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Sarracenia Purpurea

Side-saddle Plant, or Huntsman's Cap. United States. N. 0. Sarraceniaceæ.

Stimulating dirutetic. Dose of fluid extract, 20 to 30 minims. It was once believed to have power in small pox.

Sassy Bark

[See Casca.)

Seilline

From Scilla Maritima. N. 0. Liliaceæ.

Obtained in small quantities. Pale yellow, crystallisable, tasteless powder. Soluble in alcohol, but scarcely in water. Does not affect the heart, but shows the unpleasant working of the Squill.

Scillipicrine

Also from above.

Amorphous and dark yellow, with bitter taste. The diuretic principle, and a valuable remedy of this kind. On account of its solubility in water, used for hypodermic injections, in doses of 15 minims of a 2 % solution.

Scillitoxine

Also from above.

Cinnamon-brown, amorphous powder, of a strong bitter taste; soluble in alcohol, but not in ether or water.

Therapeutics. A strong heart-poison, or cardiac sedative; also acting on the kidneys, but often producing giddiness and headache. Dose, 1 to 4 minims of a 2% solution, to be taken once a day.

Scoparine. C21 H22 O10

From Spartium Scoparium, Cytisus Seoparius. {Broom. Indigenous. N. 0. Leguminosce.

Yellowish white power. Scarcely soluble in cold water, but easily in alcohol and glycerine. An efficacious diuretic; in power or pill, 7 to 15 grains; or hypodermically injected, in water containing a very little ammonia, in doses of 1/4 to 1/2 grain. Internally the dose is much larger, probably from its being more slowly absorbed.

Scopolia Japonica

S. Atropoides. Japanese Belladonna root.

Scopolia Carniolica

Austro-Hungary. N.O. Atropacecæ.

These roots contain the powerful mydriatic alkaloids, Atropine, Hyoscyamine (mainly), and Hyoscine, and also probably a new but similar base, called Scopoleine; this is an alkaloid, brown and viscid, soluble in chloroform. It dilates the eye's pupil rapidly. Rotoine, from this plant, is now believed not to be an alkaloid, but a "soap." Y.Bk.Pharm., 88, p. 134.

This and Scopolia Hladnikiana yield also Scopoletin, a blue fluorescent compound. - Pharm. Journ., xx., pp. 468 and 792.