Medical botany Volume 1-2; containing systematic and general descriptons, with plates of all the medicinal plants indigenous and exotic comprehended in the catalogues of the materia medica - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1810 Excerpt: ...and fibrous: the stalk is thick, erect, round, smooth, shining, below simple, above dichotomous, and rises about two feet in height: the leaves are alternate, large, broad towards the base, pointed at the extremity, indented, and formed into several obtuse angles, smooth, of a dark green colour, and standing upon strong round short footstalks: the flowers are solitary, large, white, and placed on short erect peduncles at the junction of the branches: the calyx is composed of one leaf, tubular, pentangular, and divided at the brim into five teeth: the corolla is white, monopetalous, funnel-shaped, plicated, cut at the margin into five teeth, and furnished with a long cylindrical tube: the five filaments are tapering, about the length of the calyx, adhering to the tube, and supplied with oblong flat antherae: the germen is oblong, and placed above the insertion of the corolla: the style is filiform, equal in length to the filaments, and terminated by a thick blunt stigma: the capsule is large, oval, fleshy, beset with spines, divided into the cells, and four valves, which contain numerous kidney-shaped seeds. It grows wild in this country, about dunghills, rubbish, and in gardens, flowering in July. This plant has been long known as a powerful narcotic poison; its congener, the D. Metel, is thought to be St»1 of Theophrastus and Dioscorides, and is therefore the species received bv Linnaeus into the Materia Medica. The Stramonium, in its recent state, has a bitterish taste, and a smell somewhat resembling that of poppies, or as called by Bergius, narcotic, especially if the leaves be rubbed betwixt the fingers. By holding the plant to the nose for some time, or sleeping in a bed where the leaves are strewed, giddiness of the head and stupor are said to h...
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1130495736
- ISBN 13 9781130495737
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages122
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