Address of Earl Stanhope, President of the Medico-Botanical Society, at the anniversary meeting, January 16, 1829.

  • Stanhope, Philip Henry Stanhope, Earl, 1781-1855.
Date:
1829
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Credit: Address of Earl Stanhope, President of the Medico-Botanical Society, at the anniversary meeting, January 16, 1829. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    for his valuable communication on the Herbarium, pre¬ sented by the Grand Duke of Tuscany, and will be for¬ warded to him at an early opportunity. From Dr. Berthelot, Professor of Botany in the College of Oratava, in Teneriffe, we have received an excellent and very useful communication on the VlSNEA mocanera, which is administered internally as a styptic, and has been employed with great success in cases of obstinate Haemorrhage. Some Syrup, prepared from that Plant, has been sent to us, and I am very desirous that its efficacy in this country should be subjected to trials, which, if they should be favourable in their results, would eminently entitle Professor Berthelot to an honorary reward from this Society. An admirable Paper has been communicated by Dr. Grate- loup, of Bordeaux, on the utility of Botany to Medicine, and will be perused with the greatest satisfaction by you all, and even by those who heard it at a recent Meeting. The Council hopes that some of these valuable Papers will be printed in the forthcoming Number of our Transactions, which, we confidently expect, will appear in about six weeks; and as I do not wish to anticipate the pleasure which you will derive from their perusal, I have noticed them thus briefly, and will therefore only mention in ad¬ dition, the interesting Papers of Mr. Read, on the Me¬ dicinal Plants of the Azores; of Sir H. Willock, on the Endive; and of Colonel Ready, on the Geum Canaderse, which appears to be an excellent Tonic, and to be par¬ ticularly useful in the Diarrhoea of children, who had been cured by it after other medicines had been administered without relief. In consequence of the great accession of Corresponding Members, and of the communications which we have had the happiness of establishing with several scientific Societies