A New Supplement...: S. Safflower. Sandarac. Sanguinaria canadensis. Sanguinaria. Sanguis Draconis. Santalum. Sap green. Saxon Green. Scheele's Green. Show bottles. Sloes. Smalt. Spanish White. Spiritus Croci. Stone blue.

A New Supplement to the latest Pharmacopoeias of London, Edinburgh, Dublin, and Paris, Forming A Complete Dispendatory, Conspectus, and Dictionary of Medical Chemistry, Giving All the Old and New Names, Including the New French and American Medicines, and Poisons; with Symptoms, Treatment, and Tests; as Well As Herbs, Drugs, Compounds, Veterinary Drugs, With the Pharmacopoia of the Vetenary College, Nostrums, Patent Medicines, Perfumery, Paints, Varnishes, And similar articles kept in the Shops; With Their Compositions, Imitations, Adulterations, And Medicinal Uses, Being a General Book of Formulæ and Recipes For Daily Reference in the Laboratory and at the Counter.
Fourth edition, corrected, improved, and very much enlarged.
By James Rennie, M. A., Editor of the Quarterly Journal of Foreign Medicine; the Pharmacopeia Universalis; Author of a Conspectus of Prescriptions in Medicine, Surgery, and Midwifery; the Pharmacopeia Imperialis, &c. &c.
London: Baldwin and Cradock. 1837.
London: Thomas Curson Hansard, Paternoster Row.


SAFFLOWER. Cnicus tinctorius, Carthamus tinctorius. P. Bastard or Dyer's Saffron. The seeds are aromatic, cathartic, and diuretic. The dried flowers from the Levant are cosmetic and used as the basis of vegetable rouge, and also for dyeing.

SANDARAC. P. A gum derived from the Juniperis communis, or from the Thya articulata. It is stimulant and astringent, but is seldom employed medicinally. Its chief use is to make pounce for preventing ink from sinking in paper, and for making varnishes.

SANGUINARIA CANADENSIS. Blood Root. The root of this plant is acrid, bitter, slightly escharotic; in doses of gr. j to gr ij, stimulant, expectorant, and tonic; in doses of gr. viij to €j infused in warm water it is emetic; and in more moderate doses it is an active narcotic, diminishing the pulse like digitalis. (EBERLE.)
Medicinally it is prescribed in typhoid peripneumony, incipient phthisis, croup, jaundice, pertussis, and hepatisis. See TINCT. SANGUIN.

SANGUINARIA. The Alkaline base of the Sanguinaria Canadensis, soluble in alcohol and ether, but insoluble in water. Its salts are red. (DANA.)

SANGUIS DRACONIS. E. P. Dragon's Blood. A slight astringent in doses of gr. x to 3ss of the powder, or €j to 3ss of the tincture.
Imitated by melting lbiv of yellow resin and 3viij of olive oil, and adding lbj each of Venetian red and red sanders in powder.

SANTALUM ALBUM ET PALLIDUM. P. Yellow Sanders. The wood is bitter, aromatic, stimulant, and sudorific, and is given in rheumatism, &c.

SAP GREEN is prepared from the juice of buck-thorn berries, the green leaves of wood, &c., and being usually kept in bladders is termed Bladder Green. It ought to be of a dark colour, of a glossy fracture, and transparent. It is used in water-colour painting, but is apt to mildew. (FIELD)

SAXON GREEN. A pigment containing copper.

SCHEELE'S GREEN. The green arsenite of protoxide of copper, which affords a good pigment. Schweinfurt green is a fine preparation of a similar kind. (FIELD.)

SHOW BOTTLES. Red is best made with liquor ammonia, diluted and tinged with carmine or cochineal. Or, add to a solution of ammoniated nitrate of nickel, a solution of cobalt in ammonia. Yellow is made by diluting hydrochlorate of iron; blue, with sulphate of copper in ammonia diluted; Purple, with ammonia added to infusion of logwood; and Green, by dissolving verdigrise in ammoniated water.

SLOES. The fruit of the Prunus spinosa. Are used for giving a colour and rough astringent flavour to wines, particularly factitious port. The juice is also used for marking linen permanently.

SMALT is a colouring material used in painting, and in the laundry. It is procured by roasting cobalt with sand and potass. See OIL COLOURS.

SPANISH WHITE. See BISMUTH, MAGISTERY OF BISMUTH, and PAINTS.

SPIRITUS CROCI. Spirit of Saffron. Is prepared by distilling saffron with proof spirit in the proportion of 3j to Oj.

STONE BLUE is indigo mixed with starch or whitening.