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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    fpoil our hungry Appetite, fo too much Want of Moiflure on the other may hi ider a due Maflication, render the Deglutition uneafy, and flop the Digeflion *, for if the Moiflure is in too great a Quantity, the groffer Parts are too Dr feparated, to be well grinded (as it were) by the Teeth \ they are too foon conveyed off by the <Afophagus to be digefled in the Stomach, the laline Parts there are too much divided to aft vigoroufly in a further Comminution and Attrition of the mafticated Mafi, and the Return of the Food to be attenuated and divided by the Teeth a fecond time : But if there is a due Separation of the Fluids from the falivatory Veffels in the Mouth and Glands in the Tdbphagu?, then all thefe Fun¬ ctions are duly perform’d, (viz..) The Aliments are fufhciently maflica- ted for the firft time, and conveyed to the Stomach } and after being fully prepared there by the Help of the fame Moiflure, they are mafticated a fecond time, to give Way to the Percolation of the Chyle, in the Paffage of the digefled Mafs, from the Stomach to the Inteflines. So that if the Want of Moiflure hinders the Digeftion on the one hand, becaufe the Salts are not well diluted (for Salla non faliunt nifi in Fluido) fo too much Moiflure weakens it on the other, and flops a fecond Preparation of the Aliments, by its not returning to be ruminated and chew’d. VIII. Abrotanum Mas. Abrotanum Mas. Anguflifol. Maj. C. B. P. i 35. vulgare J. B. 3. 26. 192. Hift. Oxon. 3. 11. R. R. 371. Tournef. 459. Common Suthernwood. IX. cDracunculus. Abrotanum Uni fol. acriori & odorato Tournef Dracunculus hort. C. B. P. pB. Hort. five larch]. B. 3.26, 148. Draco Herba. Dod. pempt. 709. Hifl. Oxon. 3. 3. Raij Hifl. 378. Tarragon. X. Abfynihiitm T?onticum. t. Abfynthium Pcnticum. S. Romanum. officinarum S. Diofcoridis. C. B. P, 138. vulg. Dod. pempt. 23. wig. May J. B. 3. 26. 168. Tournef. 457. T. 260. R. R. 366. Hifl. Oxon. 3. 7. Common'broad-leaded Wormwood, 2. Abfiynthium Vonticum temtifolium incanum. C. B. Tourn. Pcnticum vul¬ gar e folio inferius albo, J. B. 175* 7cnuijol. PonticumGaleni Ger. emaculat, 1096. Ponticurn five Romanum incanum vulg. Park 98. R. H. Hifl. Oxon. Narrow Leaved Roman Wormwood. E (The t