Volume 3

Medical botany : containing systematic and general descriptions, with plates, of all the medicinal plants, indigenous and exotic, comprehended in the catalogues of the Materia Medica, as published by the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh: accompanied with circumstantial detail of their medicinal effects, and of the diseases in which they have been most successfully employed / by William Woodville, M.D. of the Royal College of Physicians, London.

  • Woodville, William, 1752-1805.
Date:
1790-1793
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Credit: Medical botany : containing systematic and general descriptions, with plates, of all the medicinal plants, indigenous and exotic, comprehended in the catalogues of the Materia Medica, as published by the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh: accompanied with circumstantial detail of their medicinal effects, and of the diseases in which they have been most successfully employed / by William Woodville, M.D. of the Royal College of Physicians, London. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( ) pharmacopoeias, as, pilulae ex aloe, pilulse ex aloe cum myrrha, ex- tradum colocynthidum compofitum. Pharm» Lend, pilulse aloeticse, pilulse communes, v. Rufi, pilulae ex colocynthide cum aloe, pilulae ftomachicae, Pharm, Ed. tindura aloes, tindura aloes compofita, vinum aloes P. L. elixir aloes v. ‘proprietatis, elixir aloes five proprie- tatis vitrioliciim, vinum aloetieum. P. E. the pulvis aloeticus or hiera picra, and other powders. IPECACUANHA. IPECACUAN. Ipecacuanha. Pharm, Land, ^ Edinb, AFTER the great diligence of naturalifts in exploring every quarter of the world, to extend the fcience of botany, it feems fur- priiing that the plant Ipecacuanha, the roots of which have been in common ufe more than a century, Ihould not have yet been bo- tanically afcertained. It has been referred to feveral different genera, as- that of paris, euphorbia, lonicera, viola, pfychotria, &c.; and thougli this laft has lately been thought to be the genus to which it belongs, and confequently named P. emetica by the younger Linnaeus j yet the authority on which Mutis received the information, we cannot implicitly follow j and the figure before us, though evidently the true Ipecacuanha plant, not being advanced to a ftate of in- florefcence, leaves this matter ftill undetermined. For the plant here reprefented, we are obliged to Sir Jofeph Banks ; to whom it was fent (preferved in fpirits) from Brazil by Governor Phillips; and though it is not in a ftate of perfedion, we truft it will, as a curio- fity, be thought a valuable addition to our plates. Pifo divides this root into two forts, the white and the brown, or according to Geoffroy, the Peruvian and Brazilian Ipecacuanha “; but three forts are evidently diftinguifhable in our ftiops, viz. afti- ® Pifon. Ind, res, Med. et Nat. p, 2jr. coloured