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Common terms and phrasesacid acrid acrimony acuminate acute alcohol American anthers appears aromatic astringent bark barren flowers berries bitter boiling BOTANICAL REFERENCES botanists bractes branches calyx Capsule cathartic celled character colour common Cornus florida corolla cure decoction diaphoretic disease distilled doses drachm effect efficacy emetic employed erect Euphorbia extract fertile flowers filaments five fleshy frequently fruit gallic acid genus Germ Ginseng grains green ground grow hairy infusion instances ipecacuanha jive juice Juss lanceolate leafets leaves Linnseus magnified MEDICAL REFERENCES medicine Michaux mucilage natural order oblong obtuse odour operation ounce oval ovate petals petioles physicians plant PLATE poison Polygala senega portion precipitate produced properties Pursh Pyrola quantity racemes rendered resin Rhus radicans Rhus vernix root roundish seeds segments sessile shrub smooth species stalks stamens stem stigma stomach style substance tannin taste tincture tion Tobacco tonic tree umbel various vegetable vomiting wood Popular passagesPage 133 - The gas was collected, and found to be a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen, in the proportion of three parts of the former to one of the latter. Page 199 - Bacon; and some of them eat plentifully of it, the effect of which was a very pleasant comedy; for they turned natural fools upon it for several days: one would blow up a feather in the air; another would dart straws at it with much fury; and another stark naked was sitting up in a corner, like a monkey... Page 22 - Whether the Indians can so prepare that stupifying herb, Datura, that they make it lie several days, months, years, according as they will have it, in a man's body, without doing him any hurt, and at the end kill him without missing half an hour's time? Page 199 - ... a fourth would fondly kiss and paw his companions, and sneer in their faces with a countenance more antic than any in a Dutch doll. Page 27 - ... hours after exposure, and are commonly at the height on the fourth or fifth day, after which desquamation begins to take place, and the distress in most instances to diminish. Sometimes the eruption is less general, and confines itself to the part which has been exposed to contact with the poison. The symptoms of this malady, though often highly distressing, are rarely fatal. I have, nevertheless, been told of cases in which death appeared to be the consequence of the poison. Page 53 - Red cedar being substituted for those of the Savin. When properly prepared by boiling the fresh leaves for a short time in about twice their weight of lard with the addition of a little wax, a cerate is formed of peculiar efficacy as a perpetual epispastic. When applied as a dressing to a newly vesicated surface, and afterwards repeated twice a day, it rarely fails to keep up the discharge for an indefinite length of time. Under its operation, the discharge... Page 90 - Serpentaria in a pint of boiling Water, for two hours, in a covered vessel, and strain. Page 202 - only when you have drank the poison, yon are to walk about until a heaviness takes place in your legs. Then lie down. This is all you have to do." At the same time he presented him the cup. Socrates received it from him with great calmness, without fear or change of countenance, and regarding the man with his usual stern aspect, he asked, " What say you of this potion ? Is it lawful to sprinkle any portion of it on the earth as a libation, or not ?" " We only bruise," said the man, " as much as... Page 75 - Magnolia grandiflora; the land on which they stand is an exact level: the surface a shallow, loose, black mould, on a stratum of stiff, yellowish clay. These trees were about twelve feet high, spreading horizontally; their limbs meeting and interlocking with each other, formed one vast, shady, cool grove, so dense and humid as to exclude the sun-beams... Page 170 - III., their efficacy as a general narcotic, when introduced into the stomach, has been investigated. Dr. Maton observed, that besides allaying pain and producing sleep, the preparation of hops reduces the frequency of the pulse, and increases its firmness in a very direct manner. One drachm of the tincture and four grains of the extract, given once in six hours, reduced the pulsations, in twenty- four hours, from ninety-six to sixty... References from web pagesJacob Bigelow. American medical botany. 1817-1820. - laneconnex ... Bibliographic information
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