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Identifier: 61631000RX2.nlm.nih.gov
Title: The family flora and materia medica botanica: containing the botanical analysis, natural history and chemical and medical properties of plants
Year: 1847 (1840s)
Authors: Good, Peter P. (Peter Peyto), 1789?-1875
Subjects: Plants, Medicinal Phytotherapy
Publisher: Elizabethtown, N.J. : P. Good
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greater or less extent to alleviate suffering andcure disease, perhaps there is none more valuable or more generallyapplicable in the treatment of the divers diseases to which man issubject than a safe, prompt and efficient emetic. The safety andefficacy of Fever-wort as an emetic, and the great number of acci-dents and diseases requiring a medickie of this description entitle it,therefore, to rank high with the profession. Rafinesque mentionsthat the leaves of this plant are diaphoretic. They have a tendencyto increase the secretions, and consequently they possess the propertyof raising a sweat in a considerable degree. In fevers the plant isone of the most valuable articles in the catalogue of medicines. Byway of eminence it is called Fever-wort. The extract, which is the best mode of exhibiting TriosteumPerfoliatum, purges in doses of from ten to fifteen grains. . Fivepounds of the root are said to afford two pounds of extract. The.dose of the powder is a scruple to half a drachm.
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N?. 64. mPAXEE SDili PfHP E R!\YI .Toppv, Garden-poppv, White-poppy i*opp fp w or t adelphous. Anthers innate. i PAPAVERACEjE. JPopppworts. N°-64. pap aver sokinifeiium: Poppy. Garden poppy, While poppy. Place—Europe.Quality—Somewhat bitter.Power—Narcotic, anodyne.Use—Pleurisy, catarrh. BOTANICAL ANALYSIS. Natural Order. Rhoeadeee—L. Papaveracese—J.Class XIII. Polyandria. Order Monogynia. Linn. Sp. PI. 726. Willd. Sp. Pl.ii. 1144. Raf. Med. Flor. ii. 250. T. & G.Flora, i. 60. Griff. Med. Bot. 121. Lind. Flor. Med. 15. Per. El. Med. Bot. 688. Genus. PAPAVER. From the Celtic Papa, which signiges pap, or the soft food given to children, inwhich the seeds were formerly boiled to make the infants sleep. Synonymes.—Le pavot (F.), Der mohn (Ger.), Maankop (Dutch), Papavero(/.), Adormidera (&.), Papoila (P.), Post (Ind.), Mak (Ruse, and Pol), Valmue(Dan.) THE ESSENTIAL CHARACTERS. Calyx. Sepals two, rarely three, deciduous, imbricated in aesti-vation. Corolla. Petals fo

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