The new Pharmacopoeia of the Royal College of Physicians of London / translated into English, with notes, indexes of new names, preparations, &c. &c. by Thomas Healde, M. D. F. R. S. Lumleyan lecturer at the College of Physicians, and Senior Physician of the London Hospital.

  • Royal College of Physicians of London.
Date:
1788
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Credit: The new Pharmacopoeia of the Royal College of Physicians of London / translated into English, with notes, indexes of new names, preparations, &c. &c. by Thomas Healde, M. D. F. R. S. Lumleyan lecturer at the College of Physicians, and Senior Physician of the London Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    D. Daucus fylveflris, Daucus Carota^ Wild Carroty L. S.P. the SeeL Digitalis, Fox-gJom, Digitalis purJ)urea^ the Herk L. S. P. Foxglove is an indigenous triennial plant, growing wild ifi woods, on heaths, and under hedges ; and juftly ranked among fuch as are poifonous. The leaves are oblong, acu- minated, and fomewhat hairy, with a thick, angular, hollow, ftalk, on which numerous purple tubulous flowers, refem- bling the finger of a glove, hang downwards, in a row along one. fide,—each on a fliort pedicle. It flowers in May or June. (L.M.M.) The leaves, which Z)r. Withering zA- vifes to be gathered after the flowering ftein has fliot up, and about the time that the blbflbms are coming forth, (Bot. Ar» rangem. Vol.W.) have a bitteriftx naufeous tafte, and occa- fion moll violent vomiting End purging. Rati Hifi' PU Vol. I.' ■ ' ' ■ ] It is in truth one of thofe medicines, of .the efFe£ts of y^hich,. as Zm/V juffly obferves, little can be judged from the tafte, being not near fo acrid or naufeous as n^any other vegetables which are taken with great fafety. It has been principally recommended, for near a century paft, in complaints deemed fcrophulous. Parkinfon men- tions a decodtion of the leaves having cured an epilepfy of long