. Plants and their uses; an introduction to botany. Botany; Botany, Economic. 178 MEDICINAL AND POISONOUS PLANTS Peppermint eaiiiphor, also known as menthol, C.'i,,HooO, is a substance of closely similar properties which is obtained from the volatile oil of peppermint and related species of plants. Its important uses are too familiar to need mention- ing. Although not so jjowerful a poison as laurinol, yet serious results mux follow its careless internal Fig. 109.—Ijaurcl-camphor Tree (CiiiiKimuiniim Camphora, Laurel Family, Liiumc::ic). Flowering branch, i. (Baillon.)—Tree growing 12 m!
. Plants and their uses; an introduction to botany. Botany; Botany, Economic. 178 MEDICINAL AND POISONOUS PLANTS Peppermint eaiiiphor, also known as menthol, C.'i,,HooO, is a substance of closely similar properties which is obtained from the volatile oil of peppermint and related species of plants. Its important uses are too familiar to need mention- ing. Although not so jjowerful a poison as laurinol, yet serious results mux follow its careless internal Fig. 109.—Ijaurcl-camphor Tree (CiiiiKimuiniim Camphora, Laurel Family, Liiumc::ic). Flowering branch, i. (Baillon.)—Tree growing 12 m! tall; leaves thick; yellow; berry dark rod. Native home, China and .Japan. Resins are non-crystalline .solids or semisolids, soluble gen- erally in alcohol, ether, and volatile oils, but insoluble in water. They contain the same ehnnents as volatile oils, but with a larger proportion of oxvg(>n. On this account and. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Sargent, Frederick Leroy, 1863-. New York, H. Holt and Company
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