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Medical botany Volume 2 ; 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: ...aromatic taste, and of a pleasant smell, approaching to that of the rose. Both kinds are brought from the East Indies in billets, consisting of large thick pieces, which, according to Rumphius, are sometimes taken from the same, and sometimes from different trees. For though the white and the yellow Saunders are the wood of the same species of tree, yet the latter, which forms the central part of the tree, is not always to be found in sufficient quantity to re Respecting the calyx we arc unable to speak decidedly from our own observation. pay the trouble and expence of procuring it, especially unless the trees be old; while the white, which is the exterior part of the wood, is always more abundant, and is consequently much cheaper. "Yellow Saunders, distilled with water, yields a fragrant essential oil, which thickens in the cold into the consistence of a balsam, approaching in smell to ambergris, or a mixture of ambergris and roses: the remaining decoction, inspissated to the consistence of an extract, is bitterish and slightly pungent. Rectified spirit extracts by digestion considerably more than water: the colour of the tincture is a rich yellow. The spirit, distilled off, is slightly impregnated with the fine flavour of the wood; the remaining brownish extract has a weak smell, and a moderate balsamic pungency."b The wood is chiefly valued on account of its fragrance; hence the Chinese are said to fumigate their clothes with it, and to burn it in their temples in honour of their gods. Though still retained in the Materia Medica of the Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia, it cannot be thought to possess any considerable share of medicinal power. Hoffman considers its virtues as similar to those of ambergris; and some others have esteemed it in the characte...
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1130119025
- ISBN 13 9781130119022
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages64
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