DIGITALIS

(Lat.), n. f. Di.i-it-aal'i2s. Fr., digitale. Ger., Finger hut. Sp., digital. 1. Fox-glove; of Linnaeus, a genus of the Scrophulariacece, tribe Digitalece, indigenous to Europe and western and middle Asia: characterized by a 5-cleft calyx, campanulate, ventricose corolla, upper lip reflexed, capsule 2-celled, flowers in showy racemes. 2. Of the U. S. Ph., the leaves of D. purpure a. [B, 5, 34, 42, 121 (a, 24).] Abstract of d., Abstractum d. [U. S. Ph.]. Fr., abstrait de digitale. Ger., D'abstrakt. Abstract of d.; made by saturating 200 parts of d. recently dried and in No. 60 powder, and a sufficient quantity of sugar of milk recently dried and in fine powder, with a sufficient quantity of alcohol to leave a stratum above it in a cylindrical percolator, macerating for 48 hours, adding alcohol, and allowing the percolation to proceed until the powder is exhausted. The finished abstract should weigh 100 parts. [B, 81 (a, 21).] Acetum d. [Belg. Ph., Ger. Ph., Swi Ph., Netherl. Ph., Ru . Ph.]. Fr., oxeole (ou vinaigre) de digitale. Vinegar of d.; made by macerating for 3 days 85 parts of d.-leaves in 85 parts each of alcohol and vinegar and washing with vinegar until 1,000 parts of fluid are obtained [Belg. Ph.]; or by macerating from 3 to 8 days 1 part of d.-leaves in 1 part of alcohol and 9 parts of vinegar, expre ing and filtering [Ger. Ph., Swi Ph., Netherl. Ph., Ru . Ph.]. [B, 95 (a. 21).] Alcoolatura d. [Fr. Cod.]. See Alcool at ure de DIGITALE. D'abstrakt (Ger.). See Abstractum d. D. acuta. See D. lutea (2d def.). D. ambigua. Fr., digitale ambigue. Ger., gro bliithiger Finger hut. Great yellow fox-glove; a species growing in Italy, the leaves of which are considered sedative and diuretic, and are also used as a counter-irritant and to check heemorrhoidal flux. It is much employed in some countries in veterinary practice. Taken" in large doses, it is very poisonous, [B, 128, 173, 180 (a, 24); Med. Jahrb. der K. K. Gesellsch. d. Aerzte," 1888, p. O, no; O2. not; Os, whole; Th, thin; Th2, the; U, like oo in too; 167 [s. 571]