Medical botany Volume 4 ; containing systematic and general descriptions, with plates of all the medicinal plants, comprehended in the catalogues of ... of Physicians of London, Edinburg, and Dublin - 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. 1832 Excerpt: ...along with a small quantity of essential oil, amounting only to two ounces from fifty pounds of the root, according to Hoffman; but Neuman and Cartheuser obtained the oil in a much larger proportion. The root of Calamus, though not heating like the spices, manifests to the taste considerable pungency, and a moderate share of bitterness, and has therefore been deemed useful as a warm stomachic, and was formerly much used here in combination with the more simple bitters, which, by this addition, were rendered more grateful and carminative. It has been recommended in vertigo, proceeding from a vitiated stomach,' and in intermittent fevers, which wc are told were cured by this root, after the bark had failed."1 We are also informed of its efficacy in scorbutic and hemorrhagic complaints;1 but to this, little credit will be given, and much less to the supposed elexipharmic power of Calamus, though it is an ingredient in the theriaca and mithridate of dignified memory, and still is much used in eastern countries as a preservative against contagion. c De Mai/erne. Prax. Med. p. 59. d Act. Societ. Med. Havn. vol. p. 206. e See Murray App. Med. v. 5. p. 42. ARUM MACULATUM. COMMON ARUM, or WAKE-ROBIN. SYNONYMA. Arum. Pharm. Lond. 8g Edin. Arum foliis sagittatis, spatha recta, clava cylindrica. Hal. Stirp. Helv. n. 1302. Arum minus. Camcrar. Epit. p. 367. Arum maculatum et vulgare non maculatum. Bauh. Pin. 195. Arum vulgare maculatum et non maculatum. Park. 372. Arum vulgare. Gerard. H. 834. Paii Hist. 1208. Wake-Robin Cuckox-pint. Raii Si/nop. 266. Arum Maculatum. Flor. Dan. 505. Flor. Lond. Withering's Bot. Arrang. 1012. Relhan's Flor. Can!. 342. Varietates Sunt. a Arum vulgare non maculatum. Bauh. Pin. ß Arum maculatum, maculis candidis, vel nigris. Bauh....
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- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1236264517
- ISBN 13 9781236264510
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages62
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