The American Flora, Volume 1Strong and Burdick, 1847 |
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... administered medicinally , except occasionally to children ; the chief use to which the petals are applied in this country , is for the distillation of rose - water , which pos- sesses no medicinal virtues , and is only used on account ...
... administered medicinally , except occasionally to children ; the chief use to which the petals are applied in this country , is for the distillation of rose - water , which pos- sesses no medicinal virtues , and is only used on account ...
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... administered to animals with a view to their destruction , they become absorbed and carried into the circulation , and eventually act upon the nerves as a sedative . They were used by the ancients in intermittents and for worms , but ...
... administered to animals with a view to their destruction , they become absorbed and carried into the circulation , and eventually act upon the nerves as a sedative . They were used by the ancients in intermittents and for worms , but ...
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... administered in the form of powder , of which the dose is from five to fifteen grains , repeated three or four times a day . છે 338 E. Whitefiel Atropa belladonna Lurida . ATROPA BELLADONNA 22 NAT . ORDER . - CONIFERÆ .
... administered in the form of powder , of which the dose is from five to fifteen grains , repeated three or four times a day . છે 338 E. Whitefiel Atropa belladonna Lurida . ATROPA BELLADONNA 22 NAT . ORDER . - CONIFERÆ .
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... administer- ing it is by beginning with one grain or less , which may be gradually increased according to its effects . Although a powerful narcotic , it likewise possesses some diaphoretic and diuretic properties . Cullen speaks of its ...
... administer- ing it is by beginning with one grain or less , which may be gradually increased according to its effects . Although a powerful narcotic , it likewise possesses some diaphoretic and diuretic properties . Cullen speaks of its ...
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... administered in quantities is apt to produce a sense of tightness , or weight , with dull pain in the head , vertigo , dimness , or other dis- order of the vision and of the mental operations ; externally it has been used in sores and ...
... administered in quantities is apt to produce a sense of tightness , or weight , with dull pain in the head , vertigo , dimness , or other dis- order of the vision and of the mental operations ; externally it has been used in sores and ...
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acrid administered Aloe anthers appears astringent bark base beautiful berries bitter bowels branches calyx Capsicum capsule cathartic cells Char Class XII Colchicum Autumnale contains corolla cultivated cure cylindrical decoction diaphoretic diseases diuretic divided into five doses drachm dropsy emmenagogue employed erect essential oil Europe externally extract feet in height filaments five-cleft fleshy flowers are large flowers in June footstalks found growing fruit furnished gamboge germen green color growing wild hairy highly Jalap juice labdanum leaves Materia Medica Medical Properties medicinal MONOGYNIA mucilaginous native numerous oblong obtuse odor officinal Order ounces oval ovate peduncles PENTANDRIA petals petioles pinnated plant POLYANDRIA possess powerful produced purgative purple Pyrola Racemes receptacle rectified spirit remedy rises root is perennial ROSA CENTIFOLIA roundish scrofula seeds segments serrated sessile short slender smooth species SPIGELIA MARILANDICA stalk stamens stem stigma stomach style tapering taste terminal tonic tree two-celled yellow
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Página 34 - Fruit surrounded by ihe calyx, stalked, 1-celled, with 3 parietal polyspermous placentae, sometimes 3-valved. Seeds attached in several rows to the placenta, with a brittle sculptured testa surrounded by a pulpy aril ; embryo straight, in the midst of fleshy thin albumen ; radicle turned towards the hilum ; cotyledons flat, leafy.
Página 61 - Stoerch asserts, that on cutting the fresh root into slices, the acrid particles emitted from it irritated the nostrils, fauces, and breast; and that the ends of the fingers with which it had been held became for a time benumbed; that even a single grain in a crumb of bread taken internally produced a burning heat and pain in the stomach and bowels, urgent strangury, tenesmus, colic pais, cephalalgia, hiccup, &c.
Página 81 - ... Satterly and Dr. Marcet are among those who have added their observations to the testimonies in its favour. Dr. Somerville found his patients to remark, that an agreeable sensation was perceived in the stomach soon after taking the Pyrola, and that this was followed in some instances by an extraordinary increase of appetite. He considers it as having in this respect a great advantage over other diuretics, none of which are agreeable to the stomach, and most of them very offensive to it. He further...
Página 68 - At the top it is embraced by green, sword-shaped, ascending leaves, somewhat concave on their upper surface, convex beneath, curved inward at' the point, with numerous small white serratures at their edges. The flowers, which are in a cylindrical, simple raceme, are scarlet near the base, pale in the centre, and greenish at the summit, and have unequal stamens, of which three are longer than the corolla.
Página 81 - He also found it to alleviate altogether the ardor u rime attendant on gonorrhea. Such are the most important facts which to my knowledge have been published respecting the internal use of the Pyrola umbellata. I have administered this plant on various occasions, and attended to its mode of operation. In a number of dropsical cases, when first given, it made a distinct and evident impression on the disease, communicating an increased activity to the absorbents, followed by a great augmentation of...
Página 124 - ... beats. And in other cases in which the Rhododendron has been used at Edinburgh, it has been productive of good effects; and, accordingly, it is now introduced into the Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia. The manner of using this plant by the Siberians was, by putting two drams of the dried leaves in an earthen-pot with about ten ounces of boiling-water, keeping it near a boiling heat for a night, and this they took in the morning; and by repeating it three or four times it generally affected a cure.
Página 68 - The first ris'es from two to three thousand feet above the level of the Plains ; it is...
Página 28 - Sarsaparilla in rheumatic affections. It has also been given in dropsical cases with success, where other powerful remedies had failed. The decoction should be made by boiling two ounces of the fresh root in three pints of water, which, in dropsical cases, should be taken in two days, or better in 24 hours.
Página 81 - ... diseases, especially of the liver. After having tried with little or temporary success, almost every variety of diuretic and cathartic medicines, and submitted twice to the operation of tapping, the patient had recourse to a strong infusion of the Pyrola, in the quantity of a pint every twenty four hours. Although the case was altogether an unpromising one, yet the plant gave relief, not only in the first, but in the subsequent instances of its use. It increased the urinal discharge, and at the...