Chemical examination of sarsparilla root / by Frederick Belding Power and Arthur Henry Salway.

  • Power, Frederick B. (Frederick Belding), 1853-1927
Date:
1914]
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Credit: Chemical examination of sarsparilla root / by Frederick Belding Power and Arthur Henry Salway. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    XXV.—Chemical Examination of Sarsaparilla Root. By Frederick Belding Power and Arthur Henry Sadway. Sarsaparilla root is obtained from different species of Smilax which are indigenous to tropical America, from Mexico to Brazil. It has been used medicinally for several centuries, and still maintains a place in the various national Pharmacopoeias. The above-mentioned root has been the subject of numerous chemical investigations, which appear to have been conducted chiefly with the object of ascertaining the nature of its so-called active principles, or the constituents to which the assumed therapeutic virtues of the root are due. The earliest of these investigations was