A supplement to the pharmacopoeias; : including, not only the drugs and compounds which are used by professional or private practitioners of medicine; but also those which are sold by chemists, druggists, and herbalists, for other purposes; Together with a collection of the most usual medical formulae; an explanation of the contractions used by physicians and druggists; the medical arrangement of the articles of the London pharmacopoeia, with their doses, at one view; a similar list of the indigenous plants of the British Islands, which are capable of being used in medicine: and also a very copious index, ... / By Samuel Frederick Gray.

  • Samuel Frederick Gray
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1818
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Credit: A supplement to the pharmacopoeias; : including, not only the drugs and compounds which are used by professional or private practitioners of medicine; but also those which are sold by chemists, druggists, and herbalists, for other purposes; Together with a collection of the most usual medical formulae; an explanation of the contractions used by physicians and druggists; the medical arrangement of the articles of the London pharmacopoeia, with their doses, at one view; a similar list of the indigenous plants of the British Islands, which are capable of being used in medicine: and also a very copious index, ... / By Samuel Frederick Gray. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    leaves narcotic; berries boiled and eaten in the warmer- countries. Potatoe. Batata, S. tuberosum. A Peruvian plant? whose cultivation is spreading rapidly over the whole world the root yielding a vast quantity of food upon a small extent of ground, and with little labour: when it first began to be used, it was supposed to be narcotic, diuretic, and aphrodi- Guinea pepper, Pepper pobs. Capsicum,, C. armuum* Indian peppe&, Bird pepper, Tsciiilies. Piper In- dicum, C:frutescens. Berries, which are fleshless, are of a burning heat, irritating, attendant'; the powder is'given in doses of gr. vj to viiij ; also as sauce, or to give&a false*- strength to vinegar, spirits, &c.; infused in vinegar, used as a gargle; externally they are rubefacient; with hog’s lard form a liniment for paralytic limbs. . _ Calebash tree. Crescentia Cujete and C. lagenaria. The fruits, whose rinds are used as vessels for various pur- poses, contain a yellow, sharp, rather disagreeable pulp; used in the West Indies in diarrhoea, dropsy, head-ache ; also externally in burns and in coups de soleil ; expressed juice of the pulp, in a dose of piiij, is purgative: a pectoral syrup is also made from it, which is sent over to Europe. 42. BORAGINES. The plants of this, order are moistening.and refreshing Sebebten. Myxa, Cordia Myxa, and C Selelten. ihe fruit is softening,moistening, and slightly laxative; ex- ‘ellcnt bird-hme is made from it. , West In®^n LT('num Rhodium. C. Gerascanthus. sometimes used for the true. *Borage. Bor a go officinalis. Blower cordial; the tops ere formerly -used in coo] tankards; leaves refreshing, loistening,, they contain nitre. ■ ■ ( *GARnra bu^oss, Ox tongue. Buglossum hortehse, nchusa officinalis. The same qualities as the former. The uce o. the corolla produces a beautiful green with acids. Alkanet. Anchusa tinctnria. Bark of the root tinges y )° les ie , -hence used in lip-salves, is aperitive, and ghtly astringent. 1 . 5 * ^Spotted lungwort, Spotted co.mfrey, Sage of Je-