An investigation of the properties and effects, of the Spiraea trifoliata of Linnaeus, or Indian physic / by Jacob De La Motta, of Charleston South Carolina ; member of the Philadelphia Medical and American Linnaean Societies ; and member of the Charleston Philosophical Society.

Date:
1810
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Credit: An investigation of the properties and effects, of the Spiraea trifoliata of Linnaeus, or Indian physic / by Jacob De La Motta, of Charleston South Carolina ; member of the Philadelphia Medical and American Linnaean Societies ; and member of the Charleston Philosophical Society. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    NATURAL HISTORY OF THE SPIRAEA TRIFOLIATA. I. Its Botanical Arrangement. VARIOUS are the vegetables, which nature very exuberantly has bestowed on America. Those endowed with particular virtues, and cha- racteristic properties, produce different effects on the animal economy. The spiraea trifoliata, which is the immediate object of the succeeding experiments, reflections, and observations ; belong to a nume- rous and extensive family of plants. Different species of the genus spiraea, are situated in almost every part of the United States; inhabiting every climate. In the celebrated Linnaean system of vegeta- bles, this genus is arranged under the twelfth