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Title: American medical botany: being a collection of the native medicinal plants of the United States, containing their botanical history and chemical analysis, and properties and uses in medicine, diet and the arts, with coloured engravings (Volume 3)
Year: 1817 (1810s)
Authors: Bigelow, Jacob, 1786-1879 Annin, William B., 1791?-1839, engraver Coxe, John Redman, 1773-1864, former owner Annin & Smith, engraver Cummings and Hilliard, publisher Hilliard and Metcalf, printer
Subjects: Plants, Medicinal Phytotherapy
Publisher: Boston : Published by Cummings and Hilliard, at the Boston Bookstore, no. 1, Cornhill
Contributing Library: U.S. National Library of Medicine
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therto examined. And until a moreextensive examination has brought to light newsubstances of this class, or better defined themodes of preparation and use of those alreadyknown, we cannot wish that the South Americandrug should be diminished in our markets, orless familiar to our physicians. BOTANICAL REFERENCES. Euphorbia Ipecacuanha, Linn. Sp. pi.—Willd. ii. 900.—Mi-chaux, Flora, ii. 212.—Pursh, ii. 606.—Botanical Magazine, t.1494.—Euphorbia inermis, &c.—Gronovius, Virg. 74.—Tithymalusflore minimo herbaceo ?—Clayton, Phil, trans, abr. viii. 331. MEDICAL REFERENCES. Schcepf, Mat. Med. 74.—B. S. Barton, Coll. 26.—W. P. CBarton, Veg. Mat. Med. vol. i. PLATE LII. Fig. 1. Euphorbia Ipecacuanha. Fig. 2, 5, 4, 5. Different forms and sizes of the leaf observed in individuals of this species.Fig. 6. Bed variety of the leaves.Fig. 7. Calyx. Fig. 8. Calyx opened, with five of the stamens expanded.Fig. 9. A perfect flower.Fig. 10. Styles and stigmas magnified. /•//.///
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( ////////>< /<-/ <■?<; //ft/// EUPHORBIA COROLLATA. Large flowering spurge. PLATE LIIL Jln point of stature and the shewy appear-ance of its flowers, this species of Euphorbiadiffers eminently from that described in the lastarticle. In the common features, however, ofthe genus, such as its lactescence, its taste, andits medicinal powers; the consanguinity of thetwo plants evidently appears. I am not awarethat this species has been much known for itsoperative qualities, until within a very recentperiod. The indians were, indeed, acquaintedwith the medicinal properties of more than onespecies of Euphorbia. They doubtless made useof the E. ipecacuanha, and not impossibly of thepresent species also. In Mr. Claytons letter toDr. Grew, contained in the Transactions of theRoyal society for 1730, and which we have noticed 120 EUPHORBIA COROLLATA. in speaking of Aletris farinosa, the writer states,that the Aborigines made use of the roots ofTythyrnal, of which

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