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"Upon capturing this island we found a quantity of porcelain, and some bells which are different from ours, and which they esteem highly in their festivities," besides "perfumes of musk, amber, civet, officinal storax, and aromatic and resinous perfumes.
It is a pledge that we shall be emancipated from all narrow technicalities and officinal idols, while following his guidance.
It generally excited a slight tingling sensation through the whole habit, and, when the patient was kept warm in bed, produced a copious sweat. The only officinal preparation, in which this root was an ingredient, was a compound powder; in which form its virtues are very precarious. Some recommend a tincture of it drawn with wine; but neither wine, water, nor spirit, extract its virtues.
The principal use of this herb is in flatulent colics, languors, and other like disorders; it seems to act as soon as taken, and extends its effects through the whole system, instantly communicating a glowing warmth. Water extracts the whole of the pungency of this herb by infusion, and elevates it in distillation. Its officinal preparations are an essential oil, and a simple and spirituous water.
This resin is considered one of the most elegant aromatics of European growth, though little regarded in the present practice, and is rarely met with in prescription; neither does it enter any officinal composition. ANTHEMIS nobilis. CHAMOMILE. The Flowers. L.E.D. These have a strong not ungrateful, aromatic smell, but a very bitter nauseous taste.
Woodville's Med. Bot. p. 76. Similar Plants. Sonchus arvensis; Lactuca Scariola. LAVANDULA Spica. LAVENDER. Flowers. L. D. Lavender has been an officinal plant for a considerable time, though we have no certain accounts of it given by the ancients.
Lewis says, the College directed the syrup, which is the only officinal preparation of them, to be made by infusion. DIGITALIS purpurea. FOXGLOVE. The Leaves. L. E. D. The leaves of Foxglove have a nauseous taste, but no remarkable smell. They have been long used externally to sores and scrophulous tumours with considerable advantage.
A dram will give to a pint of water the consistence of a syrup, which a whole ounce of gum Arabic is scarce sufficient to do. Hence its use for forming troches, and the like purposes, in preference to the other gums. It is used in an officinal powder, and is an ingredient in the compound powders of ceruss and amber. Lewis's Mat. Med. ATROPA Belladonna.
She tinctured all his thoughts; she was the compound extract of all that was chemically pure and officinal the dispensatory contained nothing equal to her. But Ikey was timid, and his hopes remained insoluble in the menstruum of his backwardness and fears.
Althaea root is sometimes employed externally for softening and maturing hard tumours: chewed, it is said to give ease in difficult dentition of children. The officinal preparations are:-Decoctio Althaeae officinalis, and Syrupus Althaeae. Similar Plants. Malva officinalis; M. rotundifolia; M. mauritanica; Lavatera arborscens. Lewis's Mat. Med. AMYGDALUS communis.
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