The new family herbal; or, Domestic physician : enumerating, with accurate descriptions, all the known vegetables which are any way remarkable for medical efficacy; with an account of their virtues in the several diseases incident to the human frame ... / by William Meyrick.

  • Meyrick, William.
Date:
1790
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Credit: The new family herbal; or, Domestic physician : enumerating, with accurate descriptions, all the known vegetables which are any way remarkable for medical efficacy; with an account of their virtues in the several diseases incident to the human frame ... / by William Meyrick. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Seed-vessel: a roundilh capfule, marked with three divifions. ]t contains three cells, in each of which is a Angle Seed : of a roundilh form. It is a native of Africa, and flowers there in Augufl. The whole plant is full of a milky juice, which foon hardens into a refinous fubftance, and is exceedingly acrid, and fiery to the tafte. This gum was formerly given internally in fmall quantities as a purge in dropfies, and other defperate diforders, but its manner of operating was fo violent, that its ufe is now laid afide. It is however ferviceable when applied externally in ointments and plaillers for paralytic complaints, foul carious bones, and hard fchirrous tumours, before they manifelt any tendency of degenerating into cancers. EYEBRIGHT. Euphrajia Ojjicinalis, 14. 2. Root : annual, long, flender, white, and furnilhed with numerous fibres. Stem: round, firm, upright, full of branches, which grow in pairs, and about eight inches high. Leaves : numerous, fmall, produced moftly in pairs, of an oval figure, notched on the edges, and of a Ihining dark green colour. Flowers: large; they Hand in the bofoms of the leaves towards the tops of the Item, and are white, variegated with yellow and purple. Flower-cup: a fingle tubular leaf, divided into four pointed fegments. Blossom : of the gaping kind ; it confifts of a fingle petal, the tubular part of which is as long as the cup. The upper lip is concave, and notched at the end ; the lower lip divided into three fegments, of which the middiemolt is iargefl. Chives; four; they are flender, and are furnilhed with tips, divided into two lobes, the lowermoll of which terminates in a thorny point. Pointal: the feed-bud is egg-fliaped,( the lhaft thread- Ihaped, and crowned with an obtufe fummit. Seed-vessel: an oblong, comprefl'ed capfule, divided internally into two cells. Seeds : very numerous, fmall, and roundilh. V. Y It
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