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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    being given inwardly, or a Cataplafm of it being apply’d externally t° the Tumour. It feems, by its Anodyne Effect, to be a great Curber of Acrhnony, as all Narcoticks are; but I am not fond of recommending it internally, becaule too potent Ajlringents and Anodynes inwardly given are not always fafe. Its Dofe in the Pillules de Cynoglofib is lb final], and *tis an Ingredient in the Compofition in fo fmall a quantity, that there is no Danger in the Ufe of it: Moll Medicines, when given in an im¬ moderate Dofe, prove rather Venena than Medicamenta. In a word, the Afperifolice come up to the propos’d Harmony betwixt the Characters and Virtues of Plants, as much as any: They are more or lefs Coolers ; confifting of Particles that more or lefs reftrain, and put a flop to the too violent Motion or Circulation of the Blood ; more or lefs intenle AJlringents, by contracting or fhutting up of the Pores and Orifices of the Capillaries, more or 1 efs ftupifying of Pain, and curbing of Acrimony ; but none of them confifl of fuch tenuious and fubtile Particles, as to become Difcutients *, Carminatives can accelerate the Motion of the Blood* or refer ate Obft ruff ions; that’s the Work of the Gale at ce Vertidllatce, the Tetrapetalce Siliqiiofce & Siliculofee U?nbelliferce&c. Confolida media vide Bagula. Confolida minor vide Beilis minor. XXIV. Confolida Regalis five 'Delphinium. Confolida Regalis hort.. fl. majore & fmplici C. B. 142. Delphinium five Confolida Regalis ereffior purpureo five violaceo flore maj. J. B. 3, 26, 211. Delphinium elatius purpureo-violaceo diftinffum Tournef Inflit. 426. Raij Hift. 708. Morif. Hift. 3, 465. Lark’s Spur. The Tribe. This, by all who clafs by the Fruit, is plac’d among the Multifiliques Comiculatce\ and among the Poly pet alee Anomalce by Tournef ort* who clafifes by the Flower. , The Defcription. From an annual fibrous Root, a round ftrait branched Stalk atifes two or three Foot high, adorn’d with feveral dark green roundifh Leaves* deep divided into many fine Segments, like thofe of Abrotanum Mas. The Flowers on long Spikes on the top of the Stalk and Branches arc pentapetalous, anomalous, the lower of which are roundifh ; the fifth and upper confifl of five Parts, viz. an upright bifid Galea or Helmet, on the back of which lies as it were another Petalon, two Wings, and a cavous or hollow Calcar, or furrounded as it were with a Scabbard or Sheath9 bending downwards behind. The Stamina are fo numerous, M m ra that