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A treatise on foreign vegetables. Containing ... such as are now commonly used in the practice of physick ... / Chiefly taken from the Materia medica of S.F. Geoffroy. By R. Thicknesse.
- Étienne François Geoffroy
- Date:
- 1749
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A treatise on foreign vegetables. Containing ... such as are now commonly used in the practice of physick ... / Chiefly taken from the Materia medica of S.F. Geoffroy. By R. Thicknesse. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Medical Effays of Edinburgh of its doing Wonders in Gangrenes and Sphacelations, feveral Perfons, who were defpaired of, having recovered perfedt Health by taking it, when other Remedies had been tried to no Purpofe. It is prefcribed to sfs. in a Bolus or Decodtion, to be taken every fourth Hour, the mortified Part being rubbed with Oil of Turpentine, or other fuitable Antifepticks. A few Years ago another Bark was brought to Paris under the Name of Kina Kina fcsmina, but the Tree to which it belongs is unknown. It was thicker than the genuine Bark and redder, being much of the fame Colour with Spanijh Snuff, but whiter on the outfide. It fometimes cured Fevers f yet as it was vaftly inferior in its Efficacy to the true Sort, and becaufe the Merchants had found out the Trick of mixing them, the Importation of it is now prohibited by Law.] A third Species of the Peruvian Bark is called Kina Kina aromatica, Cafeariliay Schacarilla, Cortex Peruvianus grifeus, Zagarilla : Cortex Eleuterii, Joann. Andrea Stijferi: China China falfa et Cortex Eleterii, Dale Pharm. Eleutheria, Lin. Hort. Cliff’ 486. and in Englifh is termed Cafcaril. It is a Bark convoluted into Tubes, as broad as one’s Finger or Thumb, and two, three, or four Inches long, a Line or two thick, outwardly of a whitifh afhy Colour, and within like the Ruft of Iron; of a bitter aromatick Tafte, and vrery fragrant aroma- tick Smell, when it is burnt, fomething like the Smell of Amber. It comes to us from fome of the fouthern Parts of America, particularly from Paraguay. The fir ft who made Mention of this Bark was J. And. Stifjerus, Dodlor of Phyfick and Profefibr in the Univerfity of fullers *, who in his Specimen Abler, laboratorii chymici anno ido. publifhed at H 2 Helmftat](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30529529_0001_0117.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
