The genesis of the American materia medica : including a biographical sketch of "John Josselyn, gent," and the medical and materia medica references in Josselyn's "New-Englands rarities discovered," etc., and in his "Two voyages to New-England," / with critical notes and comments by Harvey Wickes Felter.

  • Felter, Harvey Wickes, 1865-1927.
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[1927]
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Credit: The genesis of the American materia medica : including a biographical sketch of "John Josselyn, gent," and the medical and materia medica references in Josselyn's "New-Englands rarities discovered," etc., and in his "Two voyages to New-England," / with critical notes and comments by Harvey Wickes Felter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [P. 98].—“For Swellings of the Foot “An Indian IVebh, her foot being very much swell’d and inflamed, as- swaged the swelling, and took away the inflamation, with our Garden or Eng¬ lish Patience;69a the Roots roasted, f. Cataplas. Anno 1670, June 28.” Tobacco [p. 98].—((To dissolve a Scirrhous Tumour.” “An Indian dissolv’d a Scirrhous Tumour 70 in the Arm and Hip, with a fomentation of Tobacco, applying afterwards the Herb, stamp’d betwixt two stones.” 69a Probably Rumex Patientia L. Patience Dock, Garden or English Patience; sometimes known also as Monk’s Rhubarb. A one-time popular garden pot-herb in New England, naturalized from Europe and escaped into the surrounding country. (Felter.) 70 A hard tumor. Scirrhus usually means cancer; at one time it was accepted as a pre-cancerous hardness. From the means used and the relief obtained Josselyn evi¬ dently means only a hard mass. (Felter.)