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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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![Sena has been obferved to be highly prejudicial in thofe Difeafes wherein the Humours are in a State of Effervefcence, or the folid Parts inflamed: So that in Hemorrhages* in all Kinds of inflamma¬ tory Diftempers, and in Affedtions of the Breaft we ought to avoid it. Thefe excepted, there is fcarce any Difeafe in which it may not be conveni¬ ently given, provided that the Rules of Art be duly regarded. Some have ftarted a Controverfy concerning the Preference of the Leaves, or Follicles. Among the Ancients, Mefue, Aquarius and Serapio, and among the Moderns, Fernelius% Lobelias and Penay prefer the Follicles : But Monardus, and molt Phy- flcians of this Age, are of the contrary Opinion, Indeed the Follicles are not fo griping as the Leaves, but are much weaker in their Operation. Sena is given either in Subftance, Infufion, or De- codtion. It is prefcribed in Subftance or Powder from 9j. to 33. though feldom *, becaufe the Dofe being too large is inconvenient to take, and like- wife occafions greater Uneafinefs in working. The Infufion and Decodtion are more eligible, in Cafe too much Heat be not ufed in preparing them ; for Mefue obferves, that the purgative Virtue of this Drug is eaflly extradted, and that it evaporates by long boiling. It is ordered in Infufion or De- codtion from 3]. to §fs. either alone, or with other Catharticks. To corredt the naufeous Tafte of Sena, fome di- redt it with the Leaves of a Plant imported from Brajile, called Iquetaia, which M. Marchand, Fel¬ low of the Royal Academy of Sciences, has dif- covered to be the Scrophularia aquatica major, G B. P. The great Water-Figwort. Thefe Leaves are infufed with Sena in hot Water, and the Tindture fo obtained is not unpleafant. Take](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30529529_0001_0163.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
