Volume 1

Medical botany : containing systematic and general descriptions, with [310] plates of all the medicinal plants, indigenous and exotic ... / [By Sir William Jackson Hooker and ... G. Spratt, Esq. ...].

  • Woodville, William, 1752-1805.
Date:
1810-1832
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Credit: Medical botany : containing systematic and general descriptions, with [310] plates of all the medicinal plants, indigenous and exotic ... / [By Sir William Jackson Hooker and ... G. Spratt, Esq. ...]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Respecting the uses of Simples^, the opinion of Oribasius will not be disputed^ viz. Simplicium medicamentorum, § facultatum qiue in eis msunt, cognitio ita necesmria est^ ut sine ea nemo rite medicari queat:'' and it is a lamentable truth, that our experi- mental knowledge of many of the herbaceous simples is ex- tremely defective ; for as writers on the Materia Medica have usually done little more than copy the accounts given by their predecessors, the virtues now ascribed to several plants are wholly referrible to the authority of Dioscorides. It is however hoped that the medical reader will find what relates to this part of the work as complete as the slow progressive state of experience in phv.sic will admit: with this intention, facts and opinions have been industriously collected from various authorities; and those adduced by Professor Murray, and the works of the late Dr. Cullen, have furnished the largest contribution. The publication of this work in monthly numbers has afforded the author an opportunity of knowing already the sentiments entertained of it, by several Gentlemen of great medical and botanical authority; from whose unsolicited communications he has derived considerable assistance, and for whose friendly sug- gestions he desires to make his most grateful acknowledgments.