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Physician's Materia Medica on Pelletierine
PELLETIERINE
Alkaloid obtained from POMEGRANATE, q. v. An emcient teni cide. The salt most used is the Tannate. Ordinary dose, 0.3 Grm. (5 grs.}, to be followed in two hours by a purge. [Much larger doses, up to 1.3 and 1.5 Grm. (20 and 24 grs.) are recommended by some, but serious effects have followed the use of such doses].1
Alkaloid obtained from POMEGRANATE, q. v. An emcient teni cide. The salt most used is the Tannate. Ordinary dose, 0.3 Grm. (5 grs.}, to be followed in two hours by a purge. [Much larger doses, up to 1.3 and 1.5 Grm. (20 and 24 grs.) are recommended by some, but serious effects have followed the use of such doses].1
POMEGRANATE (Granatum)PUNIC
The bark of the root of PUNICA GRANATUM, Lin. Astringent. anthelmintic. tenicide. Formerly used in diarrhea and colliquative sweats. Now almost exclusively employed as a remedy for tape worm. preferably in the form of a salt of Pelletierine, q. v.1
The bark of the root of PUNICA GRANATUM, Lin. Astringent. anthelmintic. tenicide. Formerly used in diarrhea and colliquative sweats. Now almost exclusively employed as a remedy for tape worm. preferably in the form of a salt of Pelletierine, q. v.1
References
1) Nelson, Baker & Co., 1904, Physician's Handy Book of Materia Medica and Therapeustics, Detroit, Michigan.