General therapeutics and materia medica (volume 1): adapted for a medical text book . ut there is no evi-dence that it yields any of the sarsaparilla of the shops; and the rootwould assuredly be dug up, and introduced into the market, if it hadbeen found to possess the same properties as the imported article.(Wood and Bache.) Another species has been mentioned by Pop-pig, under the name Smilax cordato-ovata. It grows in Brazil, andsupplies, in that country, a part of the root which is used in the species of sarsaparilla plant have a rhizoma, which sends outnumerous long horizontal
General therapeutics and materia medica (volume 1): adapted for a medical text book . ut there is no evi-dence that it yields any of the sarsaparilla of the shops; and the rootwould assuredly be dug up, and introduced into the market, if it hadbeen found to possess the same properties as the imported article.(Wood and Bache.) Another species has been mentioned by Pop-pig, under the name Smilax cordato-ovata. It grows in Brazil, andsupplies, in that country, a part of the root which is used in the species of sarsaparilla plant have a rhizoma, which sends outnumerous long horizontal roots or runners, and these roots constitutethe sarsaparilla of the shops. Several varieties of sarsaparilla are met with in European commerce,all of which have been described by recent pharmacologists. Of these,the most important are the following:— 1. Jamaica Sarsaparilla, Red, or Red-bearded Sarsaparilla, whichis probably the root of Smilax officinalis, and is made up in bundles ofabout a foot, or a foot and a half long, and four or five inches broad, the Fig. 161. Fig.
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