Remarks on the mustard tree mentioned in the New Testament / [John Frost].

  • Frost, John, 1803-1840.
Date:
1827
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Credit: Remarks on the mustard tree mentioned in the New Testament / [John Frost]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Mustard seed is applied externally as a stimulant in the form of a sinapism; and the foliage of Phy¬ tolacca decandra was used as an outward appli¬ cation to cancerous tumors. Although I have no positive evidence of the young shoots of Phytolacca dodecandra being eaten in Palestine, the inference may very fairly be drawn from the circumstance of another species of the same genus, (P. decandra,) being used for culinary purposes. Of the acrid qualities of Phytolacca dodecandra there can be no doubt; so that there appears a very strong analogy between the effects and properties of the genera Sinapis,* and Phytolacca: besides which, I have ascertained the existence of a fourth ultimate chemical element. Nitrogen, in the seed of a species of Phytolacca. Nitrogen was said only * It may be here proper to remark, that the term mvcnreug, or i want, in the original language of the New Testament, does not signify ; any species of the genus we now designate Sinapis. C
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