Medical Botany (Volume 3-4 ); Containing Systematic and General Descriptons, with Plates of All the Medicinal Plants Indigenous and Exotic Comprehende - 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: ... first cultivator of this tree in Italy, yet it is evident it could not have been propagated there long before his time, as appears by the writings of PIiny;b nor is its cultivation noticed by Varro, Cato, or Columella. After its introduction into Europe, we find Spain, Portugal, and France, became successively possessed of this valuable plant, with its congeners; and the Hesperian fruits are now produced in such abundance, that their exportation gives rise to a lucrative branch of commerce. The Lemon-tree, like the orange, is common in our greenhouses; and according to the Hortus Kewensis, was first cultivated in Britain in the Oxford garden, previous to the year 1648.c The juice of the fruit, which is more acid than that of the orange, possesses similar medical virtues, and therefore what we have already said of the latter will equally apply to the former. However this juice is always preferred-where a strong vegetable acid is required. Saturated with the fixed vegetable alkali, it is in frequent extemporaneous use in febrile diseases; and by promoting the secretions, especially that of the surface, proves of considerable service in abating the violence of pyrexia. This medicine is also often employed to restrain vomiting. As an antiscorbutic, Lemon juice is also very generally taken on board ships, destined for long voyages; but even when well depurated of its mucilaginous parts, it is found to spoil by long keeping; to prevent which various means have been devised.d We are told that, by mixing it with a fifth or sixth part of brandy or rum, it underwent no change during thirty-two months;' but by being mixed with the spirit, it must have lost a part of its "See Hist. Nat. I. 12. c. 3. c See Hurt. Oxon. ed. 1. 4 However, when purified as mentioned by Dr. ...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1235804682
- ISBN 13 9781235804687
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages138
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