Pharmaco-botanologia: or, An alphabetical and classical dissertation on all the British indigenous and garden plants of the New London dispensatory : In which their genera, species, characteristick and distinctive notes are methodically described; the botanical terms of art explained; their virtues, uses, and shop-preparations declared ... / By Patrick Blair.

  • Blair, Patrick, -1728.
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1723[-28]
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Credit: Pharmaco-botanologia: or, An alphabetical and classical dissertation on all the British indigenous and garden plants of the New London dispensatory : In which their genera, species, characteristick and distinctive notes are methodically described; the botanical terms of art explained; their virtues, uses, and shop-preparations declared ... / By Patrick Blair. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tides of the Blood, ready to helitate in the Extremities of the Capillary Vejfels, and to obtund or blunt by its vifcid and oleaginous Particles, the Spi- culas, or fharp Point's of thole Acrimonious Salts, which are the Caufe of that itching, and thofe cutaneous Eruptions to be oblerv’d in Scorbutick Per- font. A Tea of its Cima or Tops may be given to good Advantage, every Morning. An infufion of itfelf, or along with other Antifcorbutical In¬ gredients, may be made either in Ale or Wine, and drank every Morn- ing, efpecially in the Spring Sea (on. Its Tops maybe boil’d in Wort, and fermented into Ale, and fo ufed for the ordinary Drink in Scorbuti- cal Cafes. Alfb in the Gout, Gravel, or any other Affe&ion of the Body, where the attenuating of too grofs a Blood is required, tho’ its high rejinous Tade renders it difagreeable to the Palate of mod People. The Pine is fit for the fame purpofes *, its Kernels are much edeem- ed in Italy, being look’d upon as more delicious than Almonds, and en¬ ter into feveral Pectoral Compofitions, in the old London Difpenfatory, fuch as Locch e Pino, Looch fanans, See. But as they are rare in thefe Parts, and as there are feveral other as effectual Peltorals, they are realonably omit¬ ted, and not now brought into Pra&ife. The feveral Products of the Firr and Pine are of great Ufebothin Fhyjfck and Mcchanichs, viz. The Rofin, Pitch and Tar. The Rofln is what fiows naturally from the Tree •, The Tar, or Pix Liquida is procured by Combuftiott : The pitch by Evaporation. I leave the manner of ob- tainining them, and the Signs of their Goodnefs to thofe that Treat of Materia Me die a. 'The Tar is edeemed a great Pefloral, and has been drank by fbnie for Difeales in the Bread *, but as it is Naufeous and Offen- five to the Stomach, being given in any quantity by itfelf, they mix Pulv. Liquiritia, Ireos,flores Sulphuris, and other Pectoral Powders with it, to bring it to a Confidence, and fo forming it into Pills, they fwallovv them. ,The Pitch enters fome external Compofitions, fuch as Vng. Bafilicon. The Rofine is procured from the Firr, the Pine, or the Larch Tree \ its various Ufes in Mechanicks are fo well known, thas I may fpare my Travel in ennumerating of them *, as to its Medicinal Ufes, wherever an Emollient, difcujfmg, or attenuating Lin ament, Ointment, or Tlajter is de- fired, that may be an Ingredient in more or lefi quantity, according to the requifite Confidence for the Difpenfatory Prefcriptions. It enters %Ing. e. Refina. Detergent. Ceratum citrinum. EmpL ex Ammoniaco. de Beto~ nica. Cafaris. Cephalicum. Diachylon magnum. Flos Vnguentorum. E. e Gummi Elemi. MeliUt. fimpl. Oxycroceum, Ton]oris, &C. For the Culture of the Firr or Pine-Trees, I hope the Reader will ex- cufe me, if I propofe by way of Digredion, what confids with my own Experience, and what may bepra&ifed, as affording as much profit as pleafure. The