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The genera Colchicum and Bulbocodium very much resemble the Crocus in the appearance of their flowers; but they are distinguished by having three styles and a superior ovary, and they are included in the order Melanthaceæ.
The plants belonging to this order have generally inconspicuous flowers, except Colchicum and Bulbocodium, both of which have flowers like the Crocus.
The bulbs of the Colchicum are used in medicine; but they and the whole plant abound in an acrid juice, which is poisonous if taken in too large a dose.
The Colchicum and the Bulbocodium are distinguished from the Crocus genus, which they so strongly resemble in the appearance of their flowers, by the ovary being within the flower instead of below it, as is the case with all the Amaryllidaceæ, and by their having three distinct styles, instead of one style and three stigmas.
In Colchicum and Sabadilla, the Supergallates of Colchicia and Veratria.
It seems to me that Cinchona bears the same relation to Arsenic in the treatment of ague, as Alkalies to Colchicum in gout; the former, in each case, supplying a needful material, the latter neutralizing a morbid process.
or that Colchicum will often stop a fit of the Gout when other medicines have failed to relieve it?
Of all that I have named, there are not any, except Colchicum and Antimony, that possess in any degree the action of nerve-medicines-i.
Every one of the medicines of this division, enumerated above,-excepting Colchicum and Pitch, which are difficult to recognise chemically,-have been detected in the urine by M.
That Colchicum tends in some way to neutralize in the blood the poison of Gout, and to a less degree that of Rheumatism also, is generally admitted, although various theories have been adopted to explain this action.
Bird has found Colchicum to be of signal service in cases of lithic deposit in the urine; and has proved the same medicine to be efficacious in Oxaluria.
To the combination of an eliminative with a sedative or anodyne action, the use of Colchicum in Gout has been, I think, erroneously ascribed.
It is particularly observed of Colchicum and of Antimony, and of all medicines which act on the Vagus nerve so as to cause vomiting.
Those who adopt this view of its action aver that Colchicum acts best when it purges freely.
But though Purgatives are often of use in gouty disorders, it is generally found that Colchicum operates most favourably when given in too small a dose to produce any purging.
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