A manual of materia medica and pharmacy : comprising a concise description of the articles used in medicine; their physical and chemical properties; the botanical characters of the medicinal plants ... with observations on the proper mode of combining and administering remedies / by H. M. Edwards and P. Vavasseur ; translated from the French, with numerous additions and corrections, and adapted to the practice of medicine and art of pharmacy in the United States, by Joseph Togno and E. Durand.
- Henri Milne-Edwards
- Date:
- 1829
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A manual of materia medica and pharmacy : comprising a concise description of the articles used in medicine; their physical and chemical properties; the botanical characters of the medicinal plants ... with observations on the proper mode of combining and administering remedies / by H. M. Edwards and P. Vavasseur ; translated from the French, with numerous additions and corrections, and adapted to the practice of medicine and art of pharmacy in the United States, by Joseph Togno and E. Durand. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.
![Family Therebinlaceas. [The Narrow-leaved Sumach, Rhus copallinum, Willd., The Pennsylvania Sumach, R. glabrum, Willd., and the Virginian Sumach, R. typhinum, Willd., are all native plants of North America, possessing considerable astringent properties. They are frequently exhibited as a gargle in sore throats, and for cleansing the mouth in putrid fevers. The following plants are natives of Europe, and possess astrin- gent properties, but are not enough important or sufficiently known and employed to deserve our entering into any very mi- nute details about them in a work of this nature: we shall, how- ever, give their names in full. Silver-weed, Cinquefoil, Wild Strawberry, Agrimony, Ladies Mantle, Meadow-sweet, Sumach, Common Cypress, Tamarisk Tree, Large and small Peri- > winkle, 3 Stinking Crane-bill, Bloody Crane-bill, Eye Bright, Broad-leaved Plantain, Potentilla anserina. Potentilla reptans. Fragaria vesca. Agrimonia eupatoria. Alchemilla vulgaris. Spirea ulmaria. Rhus coriaria. Cupressus sempervirens. Tamarix gallica. Vinca major fy minor. Geranium robertianum. Geranium sanguineum. Euphrasia officinalis. Plant ago major.,]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21013123_0106.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)