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Encyclopedia Britannica



KING

This article appears in Volume V15, Page 823 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: KHA-KRI
KING , the West
African
  name of an astringent drug introduced into European
medicine
  in 1757 by John
Fothergill
 . When described by_him it was believed to have been brought from the river Gambia in West Africa, and when first imported it was sold in England as Gummi rubrum astringens gambiense. It was obtained from Pterocarpus erinaceus. The drug now recognized as the legitimate kind is
East
  Indian, Malabar or Amboyna kino, which is the evaporated juice obtained from incisions in the trunkof Pterocarpus Marsupium (Leguminosae), though Botany Bay or eucalyptus kino is used in Australia. When exuding from the tree it resembles red-currant jelly, but hardens in a few
hours
  after exposure to the air and sun. When sufficiently dried it is packed into wooden boxes for exportation. When these are opened it breaks up into angular brittle fragments of a blackish-red coloui. and shining surface. In cold water it is only partially dissolved, leaving a
pale
  flocculent residue which is soluble in boiling water but deposited again on cooling. It is soluble in alcohol and
caustic
  alkalis, but not in ether.
The
chief
  constituent of the drug is kino-tannic acid, which is present to the extent of about 75%; it is only very slightly soluble in cold water. It is not absorbed at all from the stomach and only very slowly from the intestine. Other constituents are gum, pyrocatechin, and kinoin, a crystalline neutral principle. Kino-red is also present in small quantity, being an oxidation product of kino-tannic acid. The useful preparations of this drug are the tincture (dose 11 drachm), and the pelvis kino compositus (dose 520 gr.) which contains one part of opium in twenty. The drug is frequently used in diarrhoea, its value being due to the relative insolubility of kino-tannic acid, which enables it to affect the lower part of the intestine. In this respect it is parallel with catechu. It is not now used as a gargle, antiseptics being recognized as the rational treatment for sore-throat.


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