Pharmacopoeia Edinburgensis: or, the dispensatory of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh / Translated and improved from the fourth edition of the Latin. By Peter Shaw.

Date:: 1746

Credit: Pharmacopoeia Edinburgensis: or, the dispensatory of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh / Translated and improved from the fourth edition of the Latin. By Peter Shaw. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Anethum, Dill. The Plant and Seed. Angelicafativa, Garden Angelica. Its Root, Leaves and Seed. Anime. Its Gum-rolin. Anifum, Anife. Its Seed. Anthora \_Antithora\ Yellow Helmet-Flower, Its Root. At> urine, Clivers. The Herb. Apium [Eleofelinum] Smallage. Its Root and Seed. Aquilegia, Columbine. Its Leaves and Seed. Arabicum, Arabic. Its Gum. Areca, Indian Nut*. Its infpiflated Juice, called Catechu and ^Terra Japonica, or Earth. Argen¬ tina rolled up like tobacco, with a kind of white and bluilh mouldinefs a-top, appearing as the flower. This root is a mixture of different colours ; the principal whereof are red and violet: and in the middle there is a kind of pith, co¬ ver’d over with a very thin bark ; the heart appearing red without, and white within. This latter ftrikes but an in¬ different red, inclining to brown. Did. de Commerce. % This is a famous fruit in the Indies, which of itfelf maintains a very large commerce j its confumption being almoft incredible ; as it is ufed by all forts of people, the poor as well as the rich. The tree that bears it is tall, ftrait, ilender and cylindrical. The fhell is plain and even with¬ out-fide, but rough and hairy within ; not much unlike the Cocoa-fhel!. ’Tis as large as a midling walnut, and its kernel about the fize of a nutmeg ; which it alfo refembles on the outfide: it has likewife in it the appearance of white veins when cut in two. In the middle of the fruit, whilft it is yet immature or tender, a greyifh, foft and almoft fluid fubftance is lodg’d, which hardens as the fruit ripens; when perfectly ripe, the fruit is of a yellowifti colour, and always very bitter, yet never unpleafant. Thz Indians ufe' it uni- Yerfally$