The Ceylon moss : communications read to the Royal Medico-Botanical Society of London, and published with its permission / by George G. Sigmond and Frederic Farre.

  • George Gabriel Sigmond
Date:
1840
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Credit: The Ceylon moss : communications read to the Royal Medico-Botanical Society of London, and published with its permission / by George G. Sigmond and Frederic Farre. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    CEYLON MOSS. A Communication read to the Royal Medico Botanical Society^ February^ 1840. By George G. Sigmond, M.D., F.S.A., F.L.S., &c. &c. The Medical Profession, as well as the public, must hail with great satisfaction the introduction into practice of any vegetable aliment which can add to the means we possess, of sustaining the con- stitution under the effects of disease, and of restoring it to a state of strength and vigour. For, although the Materia Medica furnishes us with a long lisf of remedies, of singular character, and of extraordinary power, yet we are deficient in the simpler means by which disorders may be combatted, alleviated, or prevented. Vegetables, therefore, which are endowed with dietetic as well as medicinal properties, are invaluable treasures; at present we have few of them whose efficacy can at all times be relied upon, and B
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