Volume 1

Medical botany : containing systematic and general descriptions, with plates of all the medicinal plants, indigenous and exotic, comprehended in the catalogues of the materia medica, as published by the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh: together with most of the principal medicinal plants not included in those pharmacopoeias. Accompanied with a circumstantial detail of their medicinal effects, and of the diseases in which they have been most successfully employed / by William Woodville.

  • Woodville, William, 1752-1805.
Date:
1810
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Credit: Medical botany : containing systematic and general descriptions, with plates of all the medicinal plants, indigenous and exotic, comprehended in the catalogues of the materia medica, as published by the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh: together with most of the principal medicinal plants not included in those pharmacopoeias. Accompanied with a circumstantial detail of their medicinal effects, and of the diseases in which they have been most successfully employed / by William Woodville. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    yields from the inner part of the bark an unctuous yellowish odo- rous juice, which gently exsiccated retains its fragrance, and proves an elegant aromatic gummy resin. On cutting the dry root longitudinally, the resinous matter, in which the virtue and flavour of Angelica resides, appears concreted in little veins.”'* Rectified spirit extracts the whole of the virtues- of the root; water but very little; and in distillation with the latter, a small portion of very pungent essential oil may be obtained. \Vc are told by Linnaeus, that the Laplanders entertain a high opinion of the utility of Angelica, and employ it both as food and as a medicine'; and since-Aromatic plants are rarely inhabitants of the Polar regions, their partiality for Angelica Isi extremely niftural: and from.the enumeration of the virtues of this plant by Bergius,* we should also suspect him of being influenced by the same physical cause. Angelica must.however be allowed to possess aromatic, and what arc called carminative, powers, and is used accordingly in the tinctura aromatica of the Edinb. Pharm. but as many other simples surpass it in these qualities, it is seldom employed inRhe present practiqe. Lewis Mat. Med. p. 59. ' Flor. Lap. a. c. ^ ^ Virtus'. alexiteria, stomachica, sudoFifera, carminativa. It may be remark, ed that he says nothing of its urns. Mat. Med. p. 205. It was formerly recom- mended in female diseases. Mensibus lochiisque obstruefis, partu diihcili, suffo- catione uteri; contra venena, & febres malignas.