General therapeutics and materia medica (volume 1): adapted for a medical text book . ccording to Dr. Pereira, it ap-proaches most nearly to potato-starch ; but its particles are larger. Itmakes a stifFer jelly than arrowroot; for which it may be substituted inall cases. 18. English arrowroot, Common arrowroot, French sago, Potato-starch, is the fecula obtained fromthe tubers of solanum tuberosum,common potato. It is preparedmuch in the same manner as othervarieties of fecula. The appear-ance of its granules under themicroscope has been referred tounder arrowroot. When carefullyprepared, it is
General therapeutics and materia medica (volume 1): adapted for a medical text book . ccording to Dr. Pereira, it ap-proaches most nearly to potato-starch ; but its particles are larger. Itmakes a stifFer jelly than arrowroot; for which it may be substituted inall cases. 18. English arrowroot, Common arrowroot, French sago, Potato-starch, is the fecula obtained fromthe tubers of solanum tuberosum,common potato. It is preparedmuch in the same manner as othervarieties of fecula. The appear-ance of its granules under themicroscope has been referred tounder arrowroot. When carefullyprepared, it is equally agreeablewith, and probably as nutritiousas Bermuda arrowroot, [t is often, . , , , . r :? , Particles of Potato-starch seen by the microscope. indeed, substituted tor it; and, (Pereira.) When boiled in milk Or Water, «• Normal Starch particle. (Fritzsche.) . ., j. o Irregular ditto, the difference IS not easily CllS- Particles each havins two hila. , , , Particles broken by pressure and water; tingUlShable. the internal matter remains solid. (Payen.). Particles of Tous-les-mois. (Pereira.) Fig. 174.
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