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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    of itself, ])e able to produce all the symptoms that were observed. From its effects when applied to wounds that were made in the thig;hs of dogs, Orfila infers that stavesacre is not absorbed, and that it produces local irritation, and sympathetic lesion of the nervous system. Medic al Properties, and Uses.—Stavesacre seeds pro- duce vomiting, drastic purgation, and inflammation, and are never administered internally. Formerly* they were used as a masti- catory for tooth-ach ; but they are too acrid to be recommended even for this purpose. Externally applied they are said to be efficacious in scabies, and fungous ulcerations ; but their chief, and most valuable virtue is that of destroying pedicuU in the head, when mixed and used with hair-powder, Delphine has not been employed as a medicine; nor are its effects on the animal economy known. * Eius grana qnindecim si quis trita in aqua musla dederit, crassa per vomitu purgant. Sed qui biberint, aiiib>UaTe debent. Quinetiam assidue attendere, op- ortet, et aquam rnulsam potue dare, quod strangulationis pericula inferant et fauces deurant. Trita eadem, et ex oleo inuiicta, pedicnlationi, prurigini et scabei auxiliatur. Plurima cit pituita comanducata. Decocta in aceto, dentium in dolori, si ea collnantur, subuenit, Gingiuaru rheumatismum sistit. Ulcera oris, apbthas noininant cum melle sanat. Miscetur prseterea urentibus malagmatis. Diosc.