Hortus medicus, or figures and descriptions of the more important plants used in medicine, or possessed of poisonous qualities; with their medical properties, chemical analysis, &c. &c. ... The chemical and medical departments by John Davie Morries / by George Graves.

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1834
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Credit: Hortus medicus, or figures and descriptions of the more important plants used in medicine, or possessed of poisonous qualities; with their medical properties, chemical analysis, &c. &c. ... The chemical and medical departments by John Davie Morries / by George Graves. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    used instead of opium and its preparations. The acidity of the orange depends on the citric acid which it contains. The rind of the bitter orange is preserved by the confectioner in various forms. When boiled with sugar and dried, it is sold under the name of candied orange peel; when formed into a sort of jelly it is called Marmalade, and is in this state used for imparting flavour to various dishes, and as a preserve for the tea or breakfast-table. Orange peel, when simply dried, is an excellent tonic, and enters into the composition of many of our officinal bitters. Lebreton discovered a crystalline bitter principle in the un- ripe fruit, to which he gave the name of Hesperidine.—J. D. M. Officinal. Fructus et Flores. Officinal preparations. Cortex exterior Fructus Citri Aurantii, Lond. Edin. Dub. Tinctura Aurantii, Lond. Dub. Conserva Citri Aurantii, Lond. Edin. Dub. Syrupus Citri Aurantii, Lond. Edin. Dub. Infusum Aurantii Comp. Lond. Aqua Citri Aurantii, Edin. Dosis, a 3i. ad 3 b Corticis; a gi .ad ^ss. Syrupi et Conservse ; ab ^i. ad ^iii. Aquae et Infusi Compositi; a 3 b ad 5 id* Tincturae. ClTR US Limonum. Lemon. Class and Order, Nat. Ord. and Generic Character, see C. Aurantium. Citrus Limonum ; leaf-stalks slightly winged; leaves oblong, acute, toothed ; stamens thirty- five ; fruit oblong, with a thin rind, and very acid pulp. C. medica, Lin. Sp. PI. 1100. Woodville, Med. Bot. iii. p. 500. The lemon greatly resembles the orange-tree, but has larger leaves, the foot-stalks of which are slightly winged; flowers white, or often with a faint blush of red; fruit oblong, pale-yellow, with a nipple-like apex. This elegant tree, in favourable situations, will bear the severity of our winters in the open air, but rarely ripens its fruit with us, unless pro- tected from the cold. The lime greatly resembles the lemon, but is smaller in all its parts; the fruit when per- fectly ripe has a sweetish pulp, but in its unripe state is more acid than the lemon. It rarely acquires more than six or eight feet in height, with occasionally thorns on its branches; the fruit is about an inch and a-half in diameter, nearly round, with similar protuberances as the lemon; it is smooth, of a greenish yellow-colour, and has a very fragrant rind. In the south of England, this species, as well as the citron and orange, have long been cultivated; “ and some of the trees now standing have withstood the winter in the open air upwards of a century, and the fruit is as large and fine as any from Portugal.”—Lou- don.—G. 3