American Medical Botany: Being a Collection of the Native Medicinal Plants of the United States, Containing Their Botanical History and Chemical Analysis, and Properties and Uses in Medicine, Diet and the Arts, with Coloured Engravings ...Cummings and Hilliard; [Cambridge] University Press, Hilliard and Metcalf, 1817 - 120 σελίδες |
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alcohol American anthers appears ascer astringency axillary B. S. BARTON bark Barren flower berries bitter Black Alder BOTANICAL REFERENCES bowels calyx Capsule cathartic celled character colour common corolla decoction dried effect emetic Erythronium Americanum Euphorbia corollata Euphorbia ipecacuanha Euphorbia officinarum excite vomiting fertile flowers Flora flore genus germ growing hairy hops Humulus lupulus Juss lanceolate large doses large quantities Linn Linnæus magnified Materia Medica MEDICAL REFERENCES medicine MICHAUX minutes natural orders nausea Nymphæa odorata oblong obovate obtuse odour operation ovate pedicelled petals petioles physicians Pistil plant PLATE Polygala Polygala rubella portion Prickly ash Prinos Prinos verticillatus produce vomiting purging PURSH resembles resinous Rhododendron maximum root roundish Sabbatia angularis sedative seeded segments sessile shrub smooth species of Euphorbia specimens stamens stem stigma stomach style substance sulphate of iron tincture tonic TRIOSTEUM PERFOLIATUM twenty grains umbel vegetable vomiting Water lily WILLD Xanthoxylum fraxineum
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Σελίδα 162 - Dr. Maton found that besides allaying pain and procuring sleep, the preparations of hops were capable of reducing the frequency of the pulse, and increasing its firmness in a direct manner. One drachm of the tincture and four grains of the extract given once in six hours reduced the pulsations from ninety six to sixty in the course of twenty four hours.
Σελίδα 102 - ... no where but in the uncultivated recesses of our own continent. Near the summits of mountains, on the banks of torrents and deep ravines, from which rivers take their rise, where the deep shade, moist soil and dashing water, preserve the atmosphere in a state of perpetual humidity ; these shrubs, in luxuriant size and vigour, are seen to cover tracts of great extent, at one season presenting an unbroken landscape of gorgeous flowers, and at another with their evergreen foliage forming an impenetrable...
Σελίδα 140 - it is unquestionably a medicine of great efficacy. It is both given internally and employed externally as a wash." Dr. Thacher recommends a decoction or infusion of the bark taken internally in doses of a teacupful, and employed also as a wash, for the cure of cutaneous eruptions, particularly of the herpetic kind.
Σελίδα 112 - ... in small doses it operates with as much ease as most emetics in a majority of instances. If it fails, however, at first, it is not so safely repeated as many of the emetics in common use. If accumulated in the stomach to the amount of two or three scruples, it finally excites active and long-continued...
Σελίδα 103 - They are evergreen, coriaceous, on round fleshy petioles, oblong-oval, entire, revolute at the edges, and pale underneath. Both leaves and petioles, when young, are covered with a light woolly substance. The flowers form a terminal cluster or thyrsus immediately above the leaves, the stalks and calyces of which are covered with a glutinous pubescence.
Σελίδα 140 - Peruvian bark ; and on some occasions, he thinks it more useful than that article. " It is employed both in substance and in decoction, most commonly, however, in the latter shape. It is supposed to be especially useful in cases of great debility accompanied with fever ; as a corroborant in anasarcous and other dropsies, and as a tonic in cases of incipient sphacelus or gangrene. In the last case," he says, "it is unquestionably a medicine of great efficacy. It is both given internally and employed...
Σελίδα 128 - Boot somewhat fusiform, perennial, branching. Stems numerous, ascending, smooth, angular, simple. Leaves scattered, smooth, the lower ones obovate, smaller; the upper ones linearlanceolate, obtuse, mucronated, sessile. Flowers purple, short-crested, in terminal racemes. Bractes small, ovate-lanceolate, caducous.
Σελίδα 155 - It is not only a popular remedy in the country, but many physicians place great reliance on its powers in rheumatic complaints, so that apothecaries generally give it a place in their shops. It is most frequently given in decoction, an ounce being boiled in about a quart of water. Dr. George Hayward, of Boston, informs me, that he formerly took this decoction in his own case of chronic rheumatism with evident relief. It was prepared as above stated, and about a pint taken in the course of a day,...
Σελίδα 129 - Bractes small, ovate-lanceolate, caducous. Wings of the calyx rhomboid*oval, obtuse, with a slight middle nerve. Corolla small, closed, of three segments, the middle one largest and crested by the division of its sides and extremity. Anthers eight, forming a double row, the filaments coalescing. Germ compressed, inversely heartshaped ; style deflexed j stigma bearded inside, with a prominence below it.
Σελίδα 103 - Calyx small, of fine unequal obtuse segments. Corolla monopetalous, funnelshaped, with a short tube, the border divided into five large, unequal segments, which are white, shaded with lake, the upper and largest having a collection of orange-colored spots at its centre. Stamens declinate, unequal ; filaments white, thickened, and hairy at base ; anthers two-celled, opening by two pores at top; pollen white.