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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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![Tafte, It is brought from Provence, Languedoc, and the oriental Countries. It ought to be made Choice of pure, bright, black, and not burnt. 'rhe Plant from which it is obtained is called Hy¬ po dis Officinarum, C. B. P. 465 *. It grows under the Ciftus, being an Excrefcence from its Root, whence the Name. It bears a final! roundifh Fruit, from which the Juice is expreiTed, and exhaled by the Heat of the Sun to the Confidence of a folid ExtradL Befides this Preparation of Hypocidis, in the Time of Diofcorides fome macerated and boiled the dry Branches of the Plant •, then drained, and re- duced the Liquor to an Extract by Evaporation. Hypocidis confifts almod of the fame Principles as Acacia, and has much the fame Virtues. It powerfully aftringes, and is commended againd all Fluxes, as Hemorrhages, Spitting of Blood, the Floodings of Women, and in the Dyfentery and cceliack PafTion. “ Moreover, (fays Galen on Jimple Medicines, /. 7.) 44 if our Intention be to corrobo- 64 rate any Part which has been relaxed by too 44 much Moidure, the juice of Hypocidis is high- 44 ly conducive to that End. For this Reafon un- 44 doubtedly it is mixed with Epithems to lay over 44 the Stomach and the Liver, and with the Anti- 44 dote made of Vipers, (viz.) in Order that it may 44 drengthen the Body.” It is taken inwardly from gfs. to 53. and is ufed in repellent Gargarifms as Acacia. Take of Hypocidis gij. Syrup of Comfrey and of Barberries, ajj. the Mucilage of Gum Tra- gacanth X]. Plantain and Purflain-Water, a X). Make a Lindus, of which let a Spoonful be taken often againd Spitting of Blood. * According to the Catalogue of the College, Cijio, C. B. HypociJUs fub](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30529529_0001_0417.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
