. A manual of the medical botany of North America [microform]. Botany, Medical; Botany; Botanique médicale; Botanique. All A LI A. ir)7 besiik's coiuinon vegetable pnuciplea The ronstituenta of the other spe- cies iiro unknown. PrcparaUouH.—Whatever viriues any of these phmts jiossess are yieltled to boUing water. Fhiid extracts of two or three of them occur as commer- cial articles. Mcdlrid Vropniics and Ukci^.—All these plants possess, to a ja^reater or less extent, aromatic and .stimulant properties, and probably no others, thoujjfh many diverse virtues have been attributed to them. A. spin
. A manual of the medical botany of North America [microform]. Botany, Medical; Botany; Botanique médicale; Botanique. All A LI A. ir)7 besiik's coiuinon vegetable pnuciplea The ronstituenta of the other spe- cies iiro unknown. PrcparaUouH.—Whatever viriues any of these phmts jiossess are yieltled to boUing water. Fhiid extracts of two or three of them occur as commer- cial articles. Mcdlrid Vropniics and Ukci^.—All these plants possess, to a ja^reater or less extent, aromatic and .stimulant properties, and probably no others, thoujjfh many diverse virtues have been attributed to them. A. spinosa is apparently the most active. A. nudicaulis, as its common name {wild mrmpardla) indicates, was formerly supposed to partake of the virtues of Sh^^mi. Via. l.'!2—Arnliii quinfiuofolin. true sarsaparilla, but as the latter plant is at present little esteemed, the reputed virtues of the former are not worthy of much attention. A. (piin- quefolia (ginncittj) is at present oniy esteemed by the Chinese, who consider it a panacea. \ As remarked above, all these plants are aromatic and stinudant. Given iu warm infusicm tliej' are capable of inducing" dia])h()resis, and in this manner acting-bonelicially in certain eases, as cln-onic i-heuniatism and various cutaneous eru})tions. Doubtless tlu^ manner in which tlie drug is .'ulministered has quite as much to do with the eti'ect produced as any medicinal pi'operty of the dru^- itHelf. Hence the alterative properties formerly attributed to these plants have littlo fouudatiou in 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 Johnson, Laurence, 1845-1893. New York : W. Wood
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