A supplement to Medical botany, or, part the second : containing plates with descriptions of most of the principal medicinal plants not included in the Materia Medica of the collegiate pharmacopoeias of London and Edinburgh : accompanied with a circumstantial detail of their medicinal effects, and of the diseases in which they have been successfully employed / by William Woodville, M.D. F.L.S. physician to the small pox and inoculation hospitals.

  • Woodville, William, 1752-1805.
Date:
1794
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Credit: A supplement to Medical botany, or, part the second : containing plates with descriptions of most of the principal medicinal plants not included in the Materia Medica of the collegiate pharmacopoeias of London and Edinburgh : accompanied with a circumstantial detail of their medicinal effects, and of the diseases in which they have been successfully employed / by William Woodville, M.D. F.L.S. physician to the small pox and inoculation hospitals. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

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    CO M ' i — i i.i ■ . ■ « i; ii ' ■ '■ ' ■ ' ■ ■ ■■ . - . . - ' —- A Question has been afked, to which it may be necefiary here briefly to reply, viz. Why we have not figured all the Plants enume- rated in the Catalogues of the Firft Part of Medical Botany, but have omitted Hordium di/iic/jon, Triticum hybernum, Avena fat'iva, Piper Cubeba, Santalum alburn^ Amyris Elemifera, Myroxylon pcrui* jferian, Stalagmitis Cambogioides, Boletus igniarius, Cocos butyracea. TftE three firft, barley, wheat, and oat, are fq well known, and have fo little claim to a place in Medical Botany, that it was fuppofed a majority of our readers would deem their figures fuper- fluous, Befides, their feeds are unqueftionably to be confidered as articles of food rather than of medicine. Of Piper Cubeba, Santa- lum album, Myroxylon peruiferum, Stalagmitis Cambogioides, and Cocos butyracea, we have not been able to procure proper fpecimens, nor are there any perfect figures of them publiihed; fo that the plates of thefe were unavoidably omitted. Refpecting the Amyris Elemifera Lin. we have to abferve, that after fully investigating the authorities for admitting this to be the tree which produces the officinal drug Elemi, we are convinced of their infufficiency, and that the name Elemifera is here erroneoufly applied; and therefore, though we obtained a good fpecimen of this fpecies, we had no plate of it engraved, Boletus igniarius, or agaricus chirurgorum, is not properly a medicinal article, nor is it of much importance in furgery j and No. i .—Part II, A it