A practical treatise on the peculiar tonic & stomachic properties of the round-leaf cornel, (Cornus circinata) : particularly in cases of indigestion of weakly & elderly people, and for local and general debility, the consequences of excessive indulgence in spirituous or vinous liquors, savoury dishes, or a long residence in a tropical climate, and for the breaking up the system, termed the climacteric malady : with directions as to the choice of articles of diet, etc. etc. : to which is added, an account of the antispasmodic properties of the lobelia inflata, with directions for its exhibition in spasmodic asthma, hooping cough, St. Vitus's dance, etc. / by J.H. Robinson.

  • Robinson, Joseph Heyliger, -1835.
Date:
1829
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Credit: A practical treatise on the peculiar tonic & stomachic properties of the round-leaf cornel, (Cornus circinata) : particularly in cases of indigestion of weakly & elderly people, and for local and general debility, the consequences of excessive indulgence in spirituous or vinous liquors, savoury dishes, or a long residence in a tropical climate, and for the breaking up the system, termed the climacteric malady : with directions as to the choice of articles of diet, etc. etc. : to which is added, an account of the antispasmodic properties of the lobelia inflata, with directions for its exhibition in spasmodic asthma, hooping cough, St. Vitus's dance, etc. / by J.H. Robinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. Those who are only acquainted with the class of medicines termed tonics, or stomachics, from the accounts given of them in hoohs, will suppose that it is already sufficiently numerous; hut those who have had the opportunity of fairly estimating their value hy long experience, admit that they have often met with cases of debility in which they all failed; some hy disordering either the stomach, intestines, hrain, or some other organ. In giving publicity in Europe to the peculiar tonic properties of the round- leaf Cornel, which it has so uniformly evinced in cases of debility, in the practice of some of the most eminent physicians of the United States of America, the author is actuated by a desire to benefit those weakly and elderly people, to whom he is thoroughly convinced it will prove a great blessing. From a long extensive practice, in which he has witnessed