On the distinctive characters of the roots of aconitum napellus (monkshood) and cochlearia armoracia (horse-radish) / by Robert Bentley.

  • Bentley, Robert, 1821-1893.
Date:
1856
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Credit: On the distinctive characters of the roots of aconitum napellus (monkshood) and cochlearia armoracia (horse-radish) / by Robert Bentley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    . '-J . X. , vT*', VJ {From the Pharmaceutical JouRNAL/or April, 1856.] '% . ■ Of ^^acov^thm characters of the WeaSr^^F ACONITUM NAPELLUS (MONKSHOOD) AND COCHLESfelA ARMORACIA (HORSE-RADISH). BY ROBERT BENTLEY, M.R.C.S., F.L.S., Professor of Botany and Materia Medica to the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. ^ r A _ /• i ^ ^ tion of monkshood or ns ® the accidental substitu- thought it mio-ht not’ L LfT aconite root, for horse-radish, I Society to ha>e theifattenrrz ;f 1° *''<= Pl*armaceutical might be readily distinguished from e^ch othOT foitdrthS“oV“;^ - autumn, and the old root thon o-rnri ii during the summer and November, December and JanuorAJ^'\fh months of October, greatest activity and hencp thp leaves are absent, it possesses the It when required for^nZr ^ months are the best time to collect elfects are^he mLt Stents TheT''^ also that period in which its poisonous poisonous is that when it is nlnnp^r the root is most when the leaves appear thp twn substituted for horse-radish for length the root of rnonlrcB ri ^®®ts are not likely to be confounded. In itilaslch as eiXt or e^^^^^^ five .inches, but sometimes In form it resembles the pn If Grot if grown in a very luxuriant soil, being broad at its imnp t carrot, or more nearly the common parsnip, smalf thread-like pZt fsp? fi^^^ ^ and tapering gradually downward to ^a average, beW abourthp^ f\- ^ extremity, on an inchoVmorefn dkmet^^^^^ ^ut frequently an divisions earh nf L' l ' ^^^^times the mam root divides into two or three represented in fig ^of from its sidS niimprn perpendicularly into the earth, giving off bitting neelle S^ thickness rff common coloured, or dork hrc^n ’ the mam root and its fibres are coffee- tas no plrticuHr oZr ’bJ- Eternally, it is white. It a few minutes a very neciii;sr°f”'r”^^ ^ earthy. Its taste is at first bitter, but in ‘he lips, cheeks, and tongue numbness and tingling is perceived in It&mlnlfaZoTt^ “ P^tennial. irregular branchps nf “nf length, giving off from its sides a number of its upper extiemRv in terminating frequently at %• In rli! in two or more divisions, from which the leaves arise (see ?orel- as'cotrr .1T;^ » ‘-h to two inched” as commnnGr ^^-om about hail an inch to two inches or bger. In form it I enb’ ‘t® ‘'n<=kncss of the thumb or middle 8‘ven off; it then7liffhtlv°tZ^Z nre ■“e or less cvhndlf7l *T” <'‘®‘nnce, and becomes ultimately r»»‘ of ZnksCd R V “ pnint, as the “3 lowerkvtrpnfii^’ ^ ,‘b®9“™‘ly maintains nearly the same thickness to In other cases hn-ll “'I. commonly divides into two or more branches, ‘fomity but bGo somewhat from its upper to its lower ex- “ nolokr extern^ ?!’•’ Z®-’ ®® “>® of monkshood Ilnquently sneeziZin ? bruised, is exceedingly penetrating and acrid, excitinA '? autumn aid sifrW nl ° ''®’'y Pg®‘. o^peciallP cii>D,iw.„x ^ ®Pving, accompanied bv a bittpr nr swonf flovr^— in aiifnw nna secretion ol tc ^CTalceT aTtp- o>-‘™Vef^ak;;^:rcS in whirl ■+ L ’ instance, the «rL,z.L u -..n. . i .. & ‘n whichirhas’ w ™‘' !“.®*“0e, the season at which it is collected’, the manner The cultivated, and the soil in which it is grown. ‘'>n»tabXtedZrcolt™^^^^^^^^ *''® *™ 'nny bo