intestinal irritant, causing nausea, vomiting, and purging. In toxic doses it produces symptoms of severe gastrointestinal and renal irritation, viz., violent vomiting, purging, and abdominal pain, with bloody, suppressed, and albuminous urine, collapse, and death." (Schleif's Materia Medica and Therapeutics.) (d) Syrup of squill is made up of vinegar of squill, sugar, and water; (e) Hare's Practical Therapeutics, page 401.

695. (a) What is the common name of staphisagria? (b) What are the therapeutic uses of staphisagria? (September, 1899.)

695. (a) Stavesacre; (b) Used as a parasiticide in pediculi, scabies, etc.; also has been occasionally used for dropsy, asthma, and scrofula.

696. Mention the therapeutic uses of starch. (May, 1902.) 696. Hare's Practical Therapeutics, page 401.

697. (a) What are the physiological effects of stramonium? (November, 1893.)

698. (b) For what is stramonium principally used? (September, 1892.)

697 and 698. (a) Hare's Practical Therapeutics, pages 402 and 104; (b) pages 402 and 104.

699. (a) What are the therapeutic uses of strophanthus? (b) Mention the dose of the tincture of strophanthus. (September, 1899.)

700. (c) How does strophanthus compare with digitalis as a heart stimulant? (May, 1894.)

701. (c) How do strophanthus and digitalis differ in physiological action? (April, 1898.)

699 to 701. (a) Hare's Practical Therapeutics, page 404; (b) page 404; (c) pages 404 and 211.

702. By what process and from what source is sugar of milk principally obtained? (May, 1895.)

702. Hare's Practical Therapeutics, page 405.

703. In what dose may sulphonal be administered to an adult to produce a soporific effect? (January, 1894.) 703. Hare's Practical Therapeutics, page 406.

704. (a) What are the sources of sulphur? (November, 1894.)

705. (b) What are the therapeutic uses of sulphur? (September, 1892.)

706. (b) What are the therapeutic uses of sulphur? (January, 1900.)

707. (c) State the ingredients and (d) uses of sulphur ointment. (January, 1898.)

708. (c) State the ingredients of sulphur ointment and give the proportions in which they are used. (May, 1902.) 709. (e) To what chemical change does sulphur ointment owe its efficiency as a parasiticide? (January, 1894.)

704 to 709. (a) Sublimed sulphur is derived from native or crude sulphur. Precipitated sulphur is obtained from sublimed sulphur, slaked lime, water, and hydrochloric acid. Washed sulphur is obtained from sublimed sulphur, water, and ammonia water. (b) Hare's Practical Therapeutics, page 407; (c) Washed sulphur, 300 grammes; benzoinated lard, 700 grammes. (d) Hare's Practical Therapeutics, page 408; (e) The sulphur, which is comparatively inert, is partly changed into sulphides and sulphuretted hydrogen; these are much more energetic and act as parasiticides.

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710. What is the principal source from which tannin is obtained? (April, 1894.)

710. Nutgall.

711. What are the therapeutic uses of tar? (September, 1894.)

711. Hare's Practical Therapeutics, page 369.

712. (a) Give the common name of taraxacum, and (b) state what part of this plant is used in medicine. (May, 1897.)

713. (c) Describe the therapeutic uses of taraxacum. (June, 1893.)

712 and 713. (a) Hare's Practical Therapeutics, page 414; (b) page 414; (c) Used as a bitter, a stomachic, a tonic; laxative and mild cholagogue; supposed to be diuretic.

714. Give (a) the source, (b) the common name, and (c) the principal therapeutic uses of oleum theobroma. (January, 1895.)

714. (a) Seed of Theobroma cacao; (b) Cacao butter; (c) as a basis for suppositories.

715. Give the source and state the uses of thymol. (September, 1894.)

715. Hare's Practical Therapeutics, page 417.

716. What are the therapeutic uses of tobacco? (March, 1893.)

716. Not much used now therapeutically. Formerly used to relax muscular spasm, also in asthma, and as a parasiticide.

717. (a) Mention the official turpentines and (b) state from what they are obtained. (April, 1898.)

718. (c) Mention the medical uses of oil of turpentine. (March, 1893.)

717 and 718. (a) Hare's Practical Therapeutics, page 422; (b) page 422; (c) page 423.

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719. (a) What are the therapeutic uses of uva ursi? (b) What part of this plant is used in medicine? (May, 1896.) 720. (a) In what pathological conditions is uva ursi used? (January, 1901.)

719 and 720. (a) Hare's Practical Therapeutics, page 425; (b) page 424.