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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 (Volume 3)
Year: 1817 (1810s)
Authors: Bigelow, Jacob, 1786-1879 Annin, William B., 1791?-1839, engraver Coxe, John Redman, 1773-1864, former owner Annin & Smith, engraver Cummings and Hilliard, publisher Hilliard and Metcalf, printer
Subjects: Plants, Medicinal Phytotherapy
Publisher: Boston : Published by Cummings and Hilliard, at the Boston Bookstore, no. 1, Cornhill
Contributing Library: U.S. National Library of Medicine
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ur dependance on foreigndrugs. Linnaeus, in his Flora Lapponica, informs us,that in times of scarcity, sheep will subsist uponthis plant, notwithstanding its bitterness. TheLaplanders employ it as a substitute for hops toprevent acescency in their beer. They evenintroduce it in some instances into their bread,upon which Linnaeus bestows the epithet, ama-rus et detestabilis. BOTANICAL REFERENCES. Menyanthes trifoliata, Linn. Sp. pi.—(Eder. Flora Dan. t. 541. Curtis, Flor. Lond. 4. t. 17.—Woodville, Med. Bot. t. 2.— Smith, Engl. Bot. t. 495.—Michaux,Flora.i. i25.—Pursh, i. 139.—Menyanthes palustre triphyllum, Ray. Syn. 285.—Trifoliura palu-dosum, Gerard, em. 1194. MEDICAL REFERENCES. Murray, Apparatus med. ii. 33.—Linnjeus, Fl. Lap. 50.—Hal-i.er, Hist. Stirp. Helv. 633.—Cullen, Mat. Med. ii. 52.—Thompson,Lond. Disp. 256. 60 MENYANTIIES TRIFOLIATA. PLATE XLVI. Fig. 1. Menyanthes trifoliata. Fig. 2. Calyx. Fig. 3. Petal. Fig. 4. Stamen. Fig. 5. Style. Fip:. 6. Fruit,
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