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Title: American medical botany, being a collection of the native medicinal plants of the United States, containing their botanical history and chemical analysis, and properties and uses in medicine, diet and the arts, with coloured engravings
Year: 1817 (1810s)
Authors: Bigelow, Jacob, 1786-1879
Subjects: Botany, Medical Botany
Publisher: Boston, Cummings and Hilliard
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
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f thisroot is in decoction, as already mentioned. It isalso given in powder in doses of twenty or thirtygrains. Dr. Tenncnt likewise employed a wineof Senega made by digesting four ounces of tJieroot in a pound of wine, of which three spoonfulswere given at a dose. 104 POLY GALA SENEGA. BOTANICAL REFERENCES. Polygala senega, Lin. Sp. pi. Walter, Car. 178.—Wood-ViiLE, ii. t, 93.—Bot.Mug. t. 1051.—Michaux, ii. 53.—Pursh,ii.464.—Polygala caule simplici erccto, &c. Gronovius, Virg. 80. MEDICAL REFERENCES. Tenivent, Diseases of Fir^infa.^LEMERY, Duhamel, &c.Hist, de VAcad. 1739,136.—Archer, Med. ^ Phijs. Jmirnal, i. 83,106.—Percivax, Med. Jmirnal, iv. 67.—Bree on Asthma, 258.—Massie, Inaiig. Diss. Philad. 1803.—Thacher, Disp. 319.—JV*. Eng. Journal, vii. 206. PLATE XXX. rig..l. Pohjgala senega.Fig. 2. Jljlower magnified.Fig. S. Calyx of the same.Fig. 4. Corolla magnified.Fig. 5. Capsule.Fig. 6. A seed. AMERICAN MEDICAL BOTANY. VOLUME ir.—PART IT. yz. .r.r.ri
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^.J^!^/:^^t7^?^<^^ ^^ Annin Sr SniM y//^/^r//^^ AMERICAN MEDICAL BOTANY. LTRIODENDEON TULIPIFERA. Tulip Tree, PLATE XXXI. A HE vegetable world can hardly offer a moreinteresting object, than a tree of exalted statureand extensive shade, covered with a beautiful andsingular foliage, putting forth from its boughs animmense number of large and variegated flowers,at the same time that its trunk affords one of themost useful species of wood, and its bark an aro-matic medicinal agent. Such an one is the Tuliptree of the United States. The forests of the 3Iiddle and Western States,according to the representation of Michaux, a-bound with the Liriodendron tulipifera, as do like-wise the elevated parts of Carolina and Georgia.It is found in the New England states, but isprincipally confined to the igouthern parts of them. 108 LIRIODENDRON TULIPIFERA. Cultivated trees are common in Boston and itsvicinity, but I have never met with it in the woodsof this part of the country, nor to the north o

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