The American physician, and family assistant. In four parts: containing, I ... A general description of vegetable medicines. II ... The manner of preparing them for use. III ... Description of diseases and manner of curing them. IV ... A description of mineral and vegetable poisons, given by those called regular doctors, under the name of medicines / By Elias Smith.

  • Elias Smith
Date:
1826
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Credit: The American physician, and family assistant. In four parts: containing, I ... A general description of vegetable medicines. II ... The manner of preparing them for use. III ... Description of diseases and manner of curing them. IV ... A description of mineral and vegetable poisons, given by those called regular doctors, under the name of medicines / By Elias Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    This plant has a variety of names in this ic Weed—Emetic Herb—Lobelia Inflata—Lo- belia Emetica. Some call it poisonous, some mediately, and some say it is an infallible cure in ali curable cases, &c. Picts -As much is said of this plant at the present Se’ - oe, = “ = =~ 1 ‘. : s to be true of it as a medicine for the reliet of — the sick. I shall first'give my readers an account of it as stated by Dr. Thatcher, Dr. Drury, and — Dr. Cutler, ai published by Dr. Thatcher in his The following is in Thatcher’s Dispensato- Emetica.—The Lobelia Influta is indigenous, | [a native plant of America] and annual, rising to one or two feet, with branched stems. The | leaves are oblong, alternate ; slightly serated — and sessile. ‘The blossoms are solitary, in a kind of spike, of a pale. blue colour. It is. found common in dry fields, among barley and_ rye stubble, and flowers in July and August ;_ its capsuls are inflated, and filled with numer- ous small seeds. “i The leaves chewed are at first insipid, says Dr. Cutler, but soon become pungent, occa- siouing a copious discharge of saliva. If they | are held in the mouth for sometime, they pro- | duce giddiness, and pain in the head, with a