DrHood's plain talks about the human system : the habits of men and women - the causes and prevention of disease - our sexual relations and social natures - embracing common sense medical . Fig. 7.—TOLU. GENTIAN. The yellow gentian (Gentiana lutea) grows abundantly on the Alps of Switzer-land and Austria, on the Apennines and Pyrenees, in the mountainous forests ofmany parts of Germany, and in North America. It thrives well in this country ina deep, rich loamy soil, and flowers about the end of June or the beginning ofJuly, few plants being more stately and ornamental. The flowers a
DrHood's plain talks about the human system : the habits of men and women - the causes and prevention of disease - our sexual relations and social natures - embracing common sense medical . Fig. 7.—TOLU. GENTIAN. The yellow gentian (Gentiana lutea) grows abundantly on the Alps of Switzer-land and Austria, on the Apennines and Pyrenees, in the mountainous forests ofmany parts of Germany, and in North America. It thrives well in this country ina deep, rich loamy soil, and flowers about the end of June or the beginning ofJuly, few plants being more stately and ornamental. The flowers are large and 790 MATERIA Fig. 8.—GENUA*. handsome, and yellow in colour, and are placed in whorls upon long stalks. Thename of the genus was, it is said, conferred in commemoration of Gentius, a king ofIllyria, who lived many years before Christ, and discovered the virtues of the portion of the plant used in medicine is the root, which isimported from Marseilles and other French ports. It is met within long cylindrical pieces, wrinkled longitudinally, and often have a sweet odour, and bitter taste, are brown externally,and yellow and spongy within. There are four officinal prepara-tions of the drug—an extract, a mixture, a tincture, and a com-pound infusion—all of which, with the exception of the extract,contain some other bitter. Thus the infusion contains, in additionto the gentian, orange-peel and lemon-peel; the mixture containsorange-peel and coriander-fruit; and the tincture, orange-peel andcardamoms. The extract is often used as a basis for tonic pills,and the other prepara
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