Observations on the action of the broom-seed in dropsical affections / by Richard Pearson.

  • Pearson, Richard, 1765-1836.
Date:
1835
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    APPENDIX, Note A.—From the manner in which the late Professor Murray has expressed himself (Apparatus Medicaminum, vol. ii., p. 445), it might be inferred that Lobel first noticed the emetic action of the seeds. But Dioscorides, who wrote upwards of fifteen cen- turies before Lobel’s time, says that the fruit (i. e. the seeds) and the flowers of this shrub, taken in honey and water, produce strong vomiting, and that the seeds, moreover, operate by stool. His words are Teureu [3d/uvou] o xu/ito; tea.) ra a,*6t) mtlilira auv fiiX/xgarw xaicc'igti atu HIT ivraaius. o Se xa^Tos x/vii” rriv xa.ru xaSa^an. AI02K0PIA0T nEPI TAH2 IATPIKH2 /3/gA. S. xtf. I quote from Sprengel’s edition, 2 vols. 8vo., published atLeip- sic, 1829. All the observations of Dioscorides apply to the Spanish broom, —the spartium junceum, of modern writers on the Materia Medica. Note B.—Messrs. Lorenzo and Moreno have discovered a crystalline substance analogous to salicina, in the spartium mono- spermum, Linn.,—a shrub which grows in the south of Europe.— Dictionnaire de Matiere Medicate, par Merat and de Lens, p. 492, sixth and concluding volume, 1834. If this principle shall be found to exist in the other species of broom, it will account for their tonic distinctly from their diuretic action.