Volume 1

A practical synopsis of the materia alimentaria and materia medica / by the author of the Thesaurus medicaminum.

  • Pearson, Richard, 1765-1836.
Date:
1797-1802
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Credit: A practical synopsis of the materia alimentaria and materia medica / by the author of the Thesaurus medicaminum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ThTcnli^ N°rthem Pa,tS' (Radix^- Mad*r. : r mcal exPenments inflated at the Edinburgh o pita], under the diredion of Dr. Home., hate ately brought into notice the root of this plant, as an ernmenagogue. The phyfician juft mentioned in orms us (Clinical Experiments and Hiftories, p. 422) that it was what Tournefort has faid of this vegetable in his Materia Medica, that induced him to give it a trial ; but long before the French bo- tamft made his remarks upon it, the rubia tinftorum had been prefcribed by Fonjeca in ob- ftruChons of the menfes. This practitioner gave a large dofe of the powdered root at the period when the catamenia ftiould appear; and if this did not fucceed, he repeated it again the next month, and fo on until the defired effeCt was produced. In this mode of exhibition the inter- vals of repetition were too diftant. It is certainly better to give it as Dr. Home directs, in lefs dofes, luch as half a dram, three or four times in the ipace of twelve or fixteen hours. But even when adminiftered in this manner, it difappointed the expectations of Cullen (Mat. Med. Vol.II). Selle (New Contributions or Obfervations relative to Natural Hiftory and Medicine, in the German tongue, 1782) and Herz (Letters to Phyficians, likevyife in the German tongue, fecond Volume, 1784). However, the laft mentioned author. Dr, Herz, remarks that, although he has not found