Volume 2

Medical botany: or, illustrations and descriptions of the medicinal plants of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin pharmacopoeias; comprising a popular and scientific account of all those poisonous vegetables that are indigenous to Great Britain / by John Stephenson and James Morss Churchill.

  • John Stephenson
Date:
1831
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Credit: Medical botany: or, illustrations and descriptions of the medicinal plants of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin pharmacopoeias; comprising a popular and scientific account of all those poisonous vegetables that are indigenous to Great Britain / by John Stephenson and James Morss Churchill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    cachexy, dropsies, colica pictonum, sciatica, uterine obstructions, and pulmonary complaints; but it is an useless appendage to the materia medica, and is now never used, unless it be by cow-doctors, who are ignorant of its properties, or by dis- honest druggists, who add a small quantity of tartar-emetic to it, and sell the mixture for powdered ipecacuanha; which, of course, produces a nauseating and depressing effect, that genuine ipecacuanha would not. This spurious article costs about two shillings a pound, while ipecacuanha is some- times as high as thirty shillings; and is so like the latter in appearance, that great temptations are held out, to a set of men who too often profit by the ignorance of the medical practitioner; and are ahke unmindful of his reputation, or of the recovery of their fellow-creatures. Dose.—The dose of the powdered root may be from 3j to 3j ; in infusion 5j ; and from 51] to Jfs in decoction.