CASCARA SAGRADA, the bark of the California buck thorn (Rhamnus Purshiana) used in medicine. An active principle anthra-gluco-sagradin has been isolated by Tschirch. Cascara sagrada is one of the most useful laxatives, since not only does it empty the bowel, but acts as a tonic to the intestine and tends to prevent future constipation. A single full dose of the liquid extract may be taken at bedtime, or divided doses, io to 15 minims, three times a day before meals. When a strong purgative is required some drug other than cascara sagrada should be employed, but its use in gradually decreasing doses is indicated after evacuation has been effected by podophyllin or rhubarb. Cascara sagrada is the principal constituent of most of the pro prietary laxatives on the market.
i600), English Aristotelian scholar and Case, JOHN (d. i600), English Aristotelian scholar and physician, was born at Woodstock. He was educated at Oxford, but had to resign his fellowship at St. John's owing to his Roman Catholic sympathies. He subsequently opened a philosophical school in Oxford, which was largely attended. He was in addition an authority on music and a distinguished physician. Most of his works were commentaries on various treatises of Aristotle (Or ganon, Ethics, Politics, Oeconomics, Physics) under curious titles; they enjoyed a large cicculation during his time, and were fre quently reprinted. He was also the author of The Praise of Musicke (1586), dedicated to Sir Walter Raleigh.
in law, the common term for a cause or suit brought Case, in law, the common term for a cause or suit brought before a court of justice. Action on the case means an action for the recovery of damages for an injury to the person or property, where the act done was not immediately injurious (see CONTRACT; TORT). A case stated is a statement of facts drawn up by one court for the opinion of a higher on a point of law. A special case is a statement of facts agreed to on behalf of two or more litigant parties, and submitted for the opinion of a court of justice as to the law bearing upon the facts so stated. In the legal systems of the United Kingdom and of the United States decided cases are considered authoritative for courts of at least equal jurisdiction with those in which the judgments were given, but on the continent of Europe the rule is, following that of the Roman law, that they are instructive but not authoritative.
A box, sheath, or covering. In building, a "case" is the facing where the backing
be of inferior material; the framework in which a window or door is hung; or the wall surrounding a stair, "staircase" properly signifying the whole structure of walls and stairs. In bookbinding, a "case" means the boards and back in which the books are bound ; and in typography, the tray, divided into partitions, containing the type ready for the corn positor's use.
