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
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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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    China Chinee [Cortex Peruvianas] Tree of Pe¬ ru *. Its Bark. Cicer rubrum, Red Chich, Its Seed. Cichoreum, Succory. Its Root, Leaves, Flow¬ ers and Seed. Cicuta, Hemlock. The Herb. Cinnamomum, Cinnamon. The Bark. Citrea malus, the Citron-tree. Its Fruit, Bark, and the Seed of the Fruit. Citrullus, Water-Melon. Its Seed. • B 4 Cockle- % * The fimple here meant is the bark of a certain tree growing in the Wejl-Indies, and called by the Spaniards Palo de Caffenturas, or Fever-Tree„ on account of its fur- prizing efficacy in the cure of that diflemper. ’Tis gene¬ rally allow’d to be found no where but in Peru, and only in that Province thereof call’d £*uinto: particularly it grows plentifully on the mountains near the City Loxa : though it is alfo faid to be found in Potofi, and that this is accounted the bed. The tree grows to about the height of our cher¬ ry-trees, and bears a leaf like common trefoil; excepting only that it is indented. Its flower is long and reddifh, and produces a kind of pod, containing the feed, which is flat like an almond. Its bark, whilfl: it yet remains co¬ ver’d, appears polifh’d, of a whitifh yellow without, and of a dusky white within. Cardinal de Lugo firfl: brought it into France, in the year 1650; upon which it was then call’d by his name, but afterwards by the name of Jefuits Powder; becaufe they had the diftributing thereof: the Cardinal, who was of their order, having left them a large quantity. Its ufe was now negledfed till the year 1706, when Dr. Talbot again brought it upon the flage in France, and eftablifhed its repijtation by the numerous cures he per¬ form’d w/th it. Thefe cures appear’d fo extraordinary to the King of France, the great Lewis XIV. that by a royal reward he procured the Do£tor to publilh his (ecret.