Address of Earl Stanhope, President of the Medico-Botanical Society, for the anniversary meeting, January 16, 1830.

  • Philip Henry Stanhope, 4th Earl Stanhope
Date:
1830
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Credit: Address of Earl Stanhope, President of the Medico-Botanical Society, for the anniversary meeting, January 16, 1830. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    juice of the Plant operates as a violent cathartic, but is used externally to promote suppuration, and for the cure of the Herpes Serpigo, as the leaves are also in cases of Rheumatism. The dried Flowers, and the inner bark of the Root, in powder, are considered of service in Anasarca and the Ascites of mere debility ; and its Root, in powder, is also administered in eruptions and other complaints. It thus appears that several parts of the Plant are medicinal, but Mr. Twining employed only the inner bark of the Root, in powder; and the complaints in which it was attended with success (though in many instances they had long re¬ mained intractable and had resisted other Medicines) were Ulcers, even such as were attended with Caries of the Bones, Cutaneous Eruptions, and Nodes, or a thickened state of the Periosteum. It was given in small doses, some¬ times of one or two grains, and was most effectual when the patient had no febrile tendency, was not of a plethoric habit, and adopted a proper regimen. The author relates, with a minuteness and accuracy which are as honorable to himself as they are satisfactory to others, the symptoms and treatment of nine cases in which Madar was adminis¬ tered alone, and of seven in which it was combined with Sarsaparilla, which “ assists, modifies, and directs ” its effects, and promotes the cure by preventing or diminishing the irritability of the Constitution. It had been tried with success in thirty-five cases by Mr. Twining, and in twenty- one cases by Mr. Egerton, Surgeon to the Eye Infirmary at Calcutta ; and the ten cases, in which it was given by the former without benefit, were of patients who were plethoric, inclined to fever, or of an irritable habit. The Author gives, also, the analysis of the Madar Powder, which can be procured from Mr. Mackenzie, No. 78, Cornhill. It is difficult for me to eulogize, in adequate
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