Pharmacopoeia Edinburgensis: or, the dispensatory of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh / Translated and improved from the third edition of the Latin. And illustrated with notes by Peter Shaw.

  • Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
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1740
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Credit: Pharmacopoeia Edinburgensis: or, the dispensatory of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh / Translated and improved from the third edition of the Latin. And illustrated with notes by Peter Shaw. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Cochlearia hortenfis, Garden ScurO vy-grafs. VThe Herb, —— marina^ Sea Scurvy-grafs. J Coffee, The Arabian Jafmin*. Its Fruit. Colocynthis, The bitter Gourd. Its Fruit. Confolida major [Symphytum majas] Comfrey, or the greater Confound. Its Root, Leaves and Flowers. Contrayerva *fg [Drakena] Its Root. * Various and contradictory were the Accounts given by Botanifts and Travellers of the growth of Coffee, till that excellent Botanift M. fuffieu^ having an opportunity of examining the tree in the King’s garden at Paris^ at length, in the year 1715, gave an exact and ample defeription thereof. The Coffee-tree, according to him, may be cal¬ led Jafminum Arabicum, Lauri folio, cujus femen Coffee di¬ al ur ; the Jafmin of Arabia, with a Bay leaf, and bear¬ ing the feed called Coffee-berries: and indeed by confider- ing its marks, it appears to be no other than a kind of Jaf¬ min, both with regard to the figure of its flower, the itru- cture of its fruit, and the difpofition of its leaves; and this alfo in the Judgment of that able Botanic Profeffor M. Commelin of Amjlerdam. But for the particular account of this tree, and its fruit, with the manner of its cultivation, growth, &c. as being too large to give here, we refer the curious reader to the original itfelf. Memoir. de VAcadem. R. An. 1713. f Contrayerva, the root, is brought to us from New Spainj as alfo from Peru; being found in great Plenty in the Province of Charcis, where it is faid to have taken its name from theWord Terva, which in Spanijh fignifies white hellebore; an herb whofe Juice is a ftrong poifon, where¬ with the Peruvians poifon their arrows: Contra-yerva thus meaning as much as counter-poifon. The leaves of the plant creep on the ground, appear green and veiny, and referable the figure of a heart; a naked ffem, of the thick- nefs
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