Medical botany. Containing systematic and general descriptions, with plates of all the medicinal plants, comprehended in the catalogues of the materia medica, as published by the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London, Edinburgh, and Dublin; together with the principal medicinal plants not included in those pharmocopoeias. Accompanied with a circumstantial detail of their medicinal effects, and of the diseases in which they have been most successfully employed / [William Woodville].

  • Woodville, William, 1752-1805.
Date:
1832
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Credit: Medical botany. Containing systematic and general descriptions, with plates of all the medicinal plants, comprehended in the catalogues of the materia medica, as published by the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London, Edinburgh, and Dublin; together with the principal medicinal plants not included in those pharmocopoeias. Accompanied with a circumstantial detail of their medicinal effects, and of the diseases in which they have been most successfully employed / [William Woodville]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “ dose had the same good effects. I prefer the root to the other “ parts of the plant, of which, when properly dried, I gave from twelve to sixty or seventy grains in substance. In infusion it “ may be given to the quantity of two, three, or four drams twice a day. I have found that, by keeping, the plant loses its virtue in part; for forty grains of the root which has not been gathered rc above two months, will operate as strongly as sixty , which has been kept for fifteen months.”® In Dr. Garden’s subsequent letters, addressed to Dr. Hope in the Years 1764 and 1760, the efficacy of this root in worm cases is further confirmed, and he observes, that the root keeps better than he at first thought, having lately used it several years old with great success. In what he calls continued or remitting low worm fevers, he found its efficacy promoted by the addition of rad. sepentar, virg. s As this plant seems to be received into the Materia Medica principally on the authority of Dr. Garden, we have judged it proper to give his account in his owiv words. 2 z No. 16.