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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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![Mr. Houfton, in the Place above quoted of the Philofophical Pranfattions, Fig. 2. mentions alfo an¬ other Sort, under the Name of Dorftenia, Dent aria tadice, folio minus laciniatoy placenta quadrangulari et undulatd. This at the firft Sight appears to be quite a didindl Species from the former ; but Lin- naus thinks the Variation in the Leaves and Pla- centay confidering the Refemblance in other Re- fpedls, not fufficient to determine it of another Spe¬ cies, And of the fame Opinion is Monfieur Ber¬ nard de JuJfieuy who afcribes the different Figure of the Placenta to the Receptaculum commune un¬ folding itfelf more or lefs in Proportion to its Ma¬ turity.] Contrayerva is reckoned fudorifick and alexiphar- mack. Clufius fays the Leaves of the Plant are an immediate Poilon, for which the Root, he tells us, is an Antidote, as alfo for other Poifons: this, however, is not to be underftood but of fuch Poifons as coagulate the Humours. It {Lengthens the Stomach, helps Concodtion, difcuffes Wind, and increafes the inteftine or fermentative Motion of the Blood. Some affert that it cures malignant Fevers, or even the Plague, preferring it to the Bezoar-Stone, Venice Treacle, and all other Anti¬ dotes : but, perhaps, they extol its Virtues too much. By its Smell and Tafte it feems to be compofed of a moderate Portion of volatile aro- matick oily Salt, fomewhat intangled in earthy Parts. Wherefore, I think Herman commends it in malignant Fevers not without Reafon, and more efpecialiy when they are attended with a Loofenefs. It is prefcribed in Subftance to gj. and in Decoc¬ tion to 3ij. Take of Contrayerva in Powder gfs. Prepared Pearls and Hartfhorn a 9j\ Mix and give](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30529529_0001_0030.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
