The American herbal, or materia medica : wherein the virtues of the mineral, vegetable, and animal productions of North and South America are laid open, so far as they are known ; and their uses in the practice of physic and surgery exhibited ; comprehending an account of a large number of new medical discoveries and improvements, which are compiled from the best authorities ... / by Samuel Stearns.

  • Samuel Stearns
Date:
1801
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Credit: The American herbal, or materia medica : wherein the virtues of the mineral, vegetable, and animal productions of North and South America are laid open, so far as they are known ; and their uses in the practice of physic and surgery exhibited ; comprehending an account of a large number of new medical discoveries and improvements, which are compiled from the best authorities ... / by Samuel Stearns. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fome, ai capabia of anfweriag evcr^ purpofc for which tho Balfam of Copaiva it employed. yid, Balfam of Copaiva, BALSAM OF PERU. Bal/amum Piruvi.~n:m. Tho Common, Red, and White Balfam. They all proceed from one and the fame tree. It ii a tefinoui_yuice, obtained from certain odorifer* out trooi, growing in Peru, and in ioms of the other warmer parts of America. 'I'hia Balfam is ft^mulan*, expeSorant, antifpafinodicj anodyne, nervine, and corroboranr. It attenuates viicid humours, promotes exoeftoration, ailays fpafms, cafes pain, Itrengihens the itomach and nervous (yflem. It is not to powsrfu! for ealtnn pain as opium, linvjgh more durable. Internally it hcips palfies, the gononhoea, tiyfeatery, menftiual obftruft ons, and otiier dilotdcri arifing frosn a dcDility of the foiid-, or an inaflivity of the Quids. It is belt for cold phlegmatic conftitulioDS, and hai often done fervice in coughs. Externally, it demerges and cleanfss old ulcers, and is exce'lant in wounds of the nerves and tendons fiom punCtures, and other cauiet, if applied warm to the parti afJ.atd. The Do/s, is from 3 to 12 drops in fuga', or dillblved in rectified fpitits of wine. BALSAM RAKASIRI. Balfamum Rakajirh It is fa!d lobe the produce of an American tree, grow- ing in tho wartnjr climatee, which ;>not fully known la u, nof to the Europeans, it has been (:»l!c;d one of tho mod powerful jjalfami, polTr.iling all thofo virtues v;hich are attributed to the B«]lam Copaiva, butin a mu%a high- er degree. It's ciUad excellent in recent woundl, and old ulcers; and haj h^taedccmcd as an infallible cuvu for a gonor- rliOCJ, and the fluor albus. But th«fe acccunts are frosi tho ladi^nt, and peibaps, not eltcgether to be depended upoB,