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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    orders, the potency of a remedy may not be so important as its safety; and the effects, when they are slow, may not be the less certain, and seem more congenial to the course of nature, which, in the formation and developement of vege¬ tables, as well as of animals, advances gradually in its work, and with that admirable order and arrangement which exemplifies, in every case, the infinite wisdom and goodness of Divine Providence. I would take this opportunity of soliciting your attention to the Lactuca virosa, which is indigenous to this Country, and which, though it is not admitted into the London Pharmacopoeia, nor into the others of which I have before spoken, is, however, represented to be a spe¬ cific for the cure of the Angina j)ectoris. I find by the German Work, which I have already mentioned, that six¬ teen drops of the Extract of that Plant are mixed with two drams of Cinnamon Water, and that the dose is fif- ♦ teen drops, to be taken every two hours. The Lactuca sativa is received into the London Pharmacopoeia, and the Lactuca scariola into the Austrian Pharmacopoeia; and the virtues of the former are generally known, but for very different purposes. The same Work has also informed me, that the Roots, in Powder, of the Artemisia vulgaris, which is common in this Country, were prescribed by Rurdach, for Epilepsy and nervous disorders, such as the St. Vitus’ Dance, &c. This Plant, although it appears to have been formerly in great repute, is not found in any of the Pharmacopoeia to which I have referred ; and I have selected it, as well as the other, from a great number which are contained in that German Work, because both of them are administered either simply, or accompanied with active medicines, so that the effects which they may produce cannot be ascribed, as in the case of compound remedies, to
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