Address of Earl Stanhope, president of the Medico-Botanical Society, at the anniversary meeting, January 16, 1829.

  • Philip Henry Stanhope, 4th Earl Stanhope
Date:
1829
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Credit: Address of Earl Stanhope, president of the Medico-Botanical Society, at the anniversary meeting, January 16, 1829. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    aware, Is imported in considerable quantities and employed with great advantage. This had erroneously been named Bonplandia trifoliata, but was first ascertained by Dr. Hancock to belong to a neighbouring Genus, and is now termed by him Galipea officinalis. This great and valuable discovery, which affords an additional proof of the extreme utility of Botany to the Materia Medica, deserves your grateful acknowledgment; and the importance of his com- munication is very much enhanced by his having employed the Angustura Bark., with great success, in cases of con- tagious disorders. It affords me particular satisfaction that we have the pleasure of seeing Dr. Hancock on this occasion, and that I have the opportunity of thanking him in the name of the Society, of expressing our respect for his talents, our admiration of his exertions, and our earnest hopes that we shall often benefit by his assistance, and often receive his instructive and excellent communications, and of offering to him our best wishes for his prosperity, and for the continuance of his health in those distant regions to which he intends to return. (The President then addressed Dr. Hancock and pre- sented to him the Gold Medal.) Another Paper of great curiosity and merit was also written by Dr. Hancock on the Vandellia diffusa, a Decoction of which acts as an Emetic, and is employed to cure both continued and intermittent Fevers; and that Plant was also used by him, and with favourable results, in chronic disorders of the Liver. In those cases it would be very desirable to find an effectual substitute for those mercurial preparations which may be dangerous in their application. The Silver Medal of this Society has been awai'ded by the Council to Professor Lamberto Frescobaldi, of Florence, c
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