Resources of the southern fields and forests, medical, economical, and agricultural : being also a medical botany of the Confederate States, with practical information on the properties of the trees, plants, and shrubs / by Francis Peyre Porcher.
- Francis Peyre Porcher
- Date:
- 1863
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Resources of the southern fields and forests, medical, economical, and agricultural : being also a medical botany of the Confederate States, with practical information on the properties of the trees, plants, and shrubs / by Francis Peyre Porcher. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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![Passion flower, 77. Pea, 194. l'ra'h, 173; to dry, aphides on, 173. Pcnr, 149, 160; to store, 149; to make productive, 166. Pecan nut, 833. Pennyroyal, 446. Pepper, 468; grass, 67 ; mint, 440. Persimmon, tannin in, 385; beer from, 387 ; vinegar and syrup from, 388, 577. Perspiration extraordinary in plants, 422. Peruvian bark, substitute for, 59, 88. Perry, to prepare, 149. Peterwort, 78. Phsenogamous species, 15. Picromar, 504. Pillows (see Mattresses). Pimpernel, 384, 408. Pindar, oil from, 194. Pine, long leaved, varied uses of, turpen- tine, pyroligneous acid from, etc., 495 ; influence on ozone, malaria, 495 ; pitch pine, uses of tar from, 504, 505; white, 505; Spanish gum, uses of, 505; north- ern, 505 ; substitute for, 506; weed, 79 ; Walter's pine, substitute for northern, 506; mucilaginous, 506; Weymouth, export of, 505. Pink root, 481. Pipes, material for, 537. Pipe stems, plants furnishing, 130, 310, 379. Pipsissewa, 377 ; diuretic tonic, 378. Piquette, to manufacture, 159. Plane stocks, materials for, 150 (see Cabi- net work). Plantain, 436; water, 536. Plants (see Wood), to collect and dry, 5 ; for cabinet purposes, 11: easily pro curable, medicinal, 8, 412; for wood engraving, 11. 59, 168; softwoods, 13; luminous property in, 55 ; intox. fish, 84; yielding thread (see Fibre), ma- terial for paper, 16, 70, 93, 274, 305 ; potash in, see Potash; oil from, see Oil; sugar in, 321, 81, 318; yield- ing liquors, 159, 161; see Liquors; for tanning, see Tanning; yielding charcoal, see Charcoal; see Poison- ous Plants, discovery of new medici- nal, 529, 563; evolving heat, 541, 544; list of those avoided by animals, 563 ; yielding gluten, 483. Pleurisy root, substitute for antimony and calomel, 485. Poisonous plants, 380, 382, 383, 384, 404, 460, 469, 476, 485, 527, 528, 564. Poison, ash, 494 ; oak, 200 ; sumach, 206. Pokeweed, 365 ; crimson, dye from, 367 ; potash from, 366; to color wine, 366. Pomegranate, 58. Potash, binox. of, 140, 369; plants yield- ing, 34, 4, 80, 84, 526, 359, 366, 421, 423, 473, 236 ; to extract, 260, 325, 360 ; to prepare, 326, 328 ; from weeds, 328, 421, 504; nitrate of, 363, 376, 590, from fuci, 594. Potato, sweet, 397; coffee from, 400; starch from, 400; blistering flies on, 400; to cleanse silk, 400, 472; Irish, starch from, 471; yam, a substitute for, 539. Prickly, ash, 136, 137; pear, to harden tallow, 66; poppy, 28. Pride of India, 106; as vermifuge, and for cabinet purposes, 107. Printing blocks, material for, 122; see wood engraving, 150, 168. Prussic acid, plants yielding, 170, 171, 172. Puccoon, 30; formulae for, 599, 601. Purgatives, plants supplying, see Cathar- tics. Pyroligneous acid from pine, 498; vinegar from, 498. Pumpkin, 64. Pupil, plants dilating, 470, 476. Purslane, 131. Putty root, substitute for gum arabic, 525. Quass, manufacture, 164. Quassia, 137. Queen's delight, 121. Quercitron, 239 ; oak, 239. Quinine (soe Antiperiod.), substitute for, 238, 334, 372, 405, 412. Rabbit-foot clover, 177. Radish, water, 71. Rag weed, 419 ; root, 429. Raspberry, wild, 144. Rattlesnake's master, 50, 522 ; plants hos- tile to, 494. Reed mace, 544; burr, 545. Red-bird salad, 197 ; chickweed, 384; clo- ver, 177. Refrigerants, 139, 140, 368, 369, 383, 437, 534, 536. Reeling of silk, 300. Rennet, plant acting as, 77,131, 139, 406, 482. Rhubarb, substitute for, 368, 370, 396, 480; culture of, in Confederate States, 373; preparation of roots, 374. Rhus, antidote for, 201. Ribwort, 437. Rice, Carolina, uses of, effect in producing myope, 578; starch from, 578; bread from, 580; substitute for coffee, 580. Roots, to dry, 7; furnishing starch and food, 541, 542, 544. Rope, wahoo, for baling cotton, 311; material for, 350. Rose, 460, 461; water to prepare, 460 ; oil to prepare, 461; acacia, 189; rose- Pond lily, 35; spice, 355. Poppv. opium, 23, 28; preparation and cultivation of, 27; Mexican, 28; prick-| mary, 437. ]y 28. jRosaries, seeds for making, 130.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21147930_0021.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
