Dissertatio medica inauguralis de strychnia ... / eruditorum examini subjicit Joannes Hutton Balfour.

  • Balfour, John Hutton, 1808-1884.
Date:
1831
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    dejSned new principle, no pains should be spared to trace it, not only in the other species of tlie same genus, but also in ali other genera of si- milar pliysiological properties.” * Plerique credunt plantas, quae se invicem for- ma externa structuraque interna referunt, simi- libus proprietatibus quoque in plurimis exemplis esse praeditas. Si hoc compertum esset, cum historia naturalis, tum medicina magis procede- ret et progrederetur. Probetur enim plantas, in eadem classe ob figuram similem externam inter se unitas, viribus similibus medicis quoque pol- lere, patet vegetabilium classes principiis firmi- oribus nisuras, herbarumque scientiam perfec- tiorem et ad medicinam magis accommodatam fore. Si classes secundum analogiae j)roprie- tatum legem ordinarentur, medicus plantas in- digenas pro exoticis substituere disceret. Prae- cipue vero utile foret apud regiones externas, terrasque ubi solita Materiae Medicae remedia inveniri non possent, si enim planta quaedam non adesset, aliam ejusdem familiae naturalis ibi * Edin. Medical and Surgical Journal, vol. xviii. p. 152.