Bulletin of the Lloyd Library of Botany, Pharmacy and Materia Medica. no. 1, 1900, Tema 1Lloyd Library and Museum, 1804 |
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... leaves with success in certain stages of fevers , and in tinea capitis . A decoction of the plant ex- ternally applied has often cured the itch ; but it must be used with great care , for thus applied it has been known to occasion ...
... leaves with success in certain stages of fevers , and in tinea capitis . A decoction of the plant ex- ternally applied has often cured the itch ; but it must be used with great care , for thus applied it has been known to occasion ...
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... leaves of a plant a good deal allied to this , I mean the Dracontium pertusum of the botanists , are employed , by the Indians of De- merara , in a very singular manner , in the treat- ment of general dropsy . The whole body of the ...
... leaves of a plant a good deal allied to this , I mean the Dracontium pertusum of the botanists , are employed , by the Indians of De- merara , in a very singular manner , in the treat- ment of general dropsy . The whole body of the ...
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THE brown powder which is attached to the footstalks of the leaves of the Andromeda , the Kalmia , and the Rhododendron , formerly menti- oned to you , is considerably errhine . The powder about the seeds in the seed - vessels of the ...
THE brown powder which is attached to the footstalks of the leaves of the Andromeda , the Kalmia , and the Rhododendron , formerly menti- oned to you , is considerably errhine . The powder about the seeds in the seed - vessels of the ...
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... leaves may be used . The expressed juice of the fresh leaves is a pow- erful emetic . SOME of our Indians also prepare an emetic from the ( 27 )
... leaves may be used . The expressed juice of the fresh leaves is a pow- erful emetic . SOME of our Indians also prepare an emetic from the ( 27 )
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... leaves are poisonous . — It is the root which is used in practice . In doses of twenty grains , it is an excellent cathartic . It has some advantages over the rhubarb and jallap . It is most advanta- geously used in combination with ...
... leaves are poisonous . — It is the root which is used in practice . In doses of twenty grains , it is an excellent cathartic . It has some advantages over the rhubarb and jallap . It is most advanta- geously used in combination with ...
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Página 33 - FROM the period that the swelling was at its height, to its entire disappearance, the itching was almost universal, and much more insupportable than it was before. I attributed this itching to the influence of the poison, which, I suppose, was conveyed into the system, from the time that the axillary gland began to swell and inflame. Nevertheless, I could not discover that there...
Página iv - MD President of the Philadelphia Linnean" and Medical Societies; one of the VicePresidents of the American Philosophical Society! Member of the Imperial Society of Naturalists at Moscow in Russia; and Professor of Materia Medica, Natural History, and Botany, in the University of Pennsylvania.
Página 5 - Collections, &c. part second, first edition, 53 pages octavo — 1804. 12. Facts, observations, and conjectures relative to the generation of the opossum of North America, in a letter to Mons.
Página 7 - Dr. John Walker, Professor of Natural History in the University of Edinburgh. Baron Humboldt. Professor Pallas, of Russia. Professor Sparrman, Sweden. Professor Thunberg, Sweden. Professor Burtnaun, of Holland.