The description, composition, and preparations of the Sanguinaria canadensis / by George D. Gibb.

  • Gibb, Sir George Duncan, 1821-1876.
Date:
1860
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Credit: The description, composition, and preparations of the Sanguinaria canadensis / by George D. Gibb. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    15. SanguinariNjE.—Sanguinarina.—The various modes of preparing this alkaloid were given when speaking of the composition of the plant, and therefore unnecessary to repeat here. It has not been used in medicine so far as I am aware, nor has Dr. Wood (the talented author of the United Stales Dispensatory, and other works) employed it, as mentioned to me in his letter of the 22nd of February, 1858. I would estimate the dose at from one-sixteenth to half a grain dissolved in some acid. The sulphate or hydrochlorate would be a more convenient preparation in doses of an eighth and quarter of a grain. To an asthmatic female patient I prescribed a twelfth of a grain of the sulphate with extract of conium twice a day, with the most extraordinary relief to the breathing and expectoration. 16. Sanguinarin is a preparation from the laboratory of B. Keith and Co., of New York. It is a compound of the alkaloid, the resin, a resinoid, and a neutral principle, as I am inftmned by my friend Dr. Badgley, who kindly presented me with a sample of it. The dose is a quarter to half a grain to begin with. It is said to combine the leading active principles of the sanguinaria.