Pharmacographia: A History of the Principal Drugs of Vegetable Origin, Met with in Great Britain and British IndiaMacmillan, 1874 - 704 pages |
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... becomes alarmingly acrid , accompanied with sensations of tingling and numbness . Microscopic Structure - The tuberous root as seen in a transverse 1 F. Porter Smith , Mat . Med . and Nat . Hist . of China , Shanghai , 1871. 2 , 3 . 2 ...
... becomes alarmingly acrid , accompanied with sensations of tingling and numbness . Microscopic Structure - The tuberous root as seen in a transverse 1 F. Porter Smith , Mat . Med . and Nat . Hist . of China , Shanghai , 1871. 2 , 3 . 2 ...
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... becomes plastic . Amorphous Pseud - aconitine , boiled in water , fuses , becomes sticky , and adheres to the sides of the vessel . Crystalline Aconitine is far more soluble in weak aqueous ammonia1 than its allied alkaloids . The ...
... becomes plastic . Amorphous Pseud - aconitine , boiled in water , fuses , becomes sticky , and adheres to the sides of the vessel . Crystalline Aconitine is far more soluble in weak aqueous ammonia1 than its allied alkaloids . The ...
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... becomes visible . This seed , which is elliptical and somewhat flattened , stands erect in the carpel ; it is truncated on the side adjoining the central column , and is there attached by an obliquely - rising funicle . The upper edge ...
... becomes visible . This seed , which is elliptical and somewhat flattened , stands erect in the carpel ; it is truncated on the side adjoining the central column , and is there attached by an obliquely - rising funicle . The upper edge ...
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... becomes raised into a stalk about an inch long , articulated at the summit with shorter stalks , each supporting a drupe , which is a matured ovary . The purple drupes thus produced are 1 to 3 in number , of gibbous ovoid form , with ...
... becomes raised into a stalk about an inch long , articulated at the summit with shorter stalks , each supporting a drupe , which is a matured ovary . The purple drupes thus produced are 1 to 3 in number , of gibbous ovoid form , with ...
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... becomes dull and rugose with age . Many of the pieces are marked with warty prominences and the scars of adventitious roots . The outer layer which is easily detached covers a shrunken parenchyme . The transverse section of the stem ...
... becomes dull and rugose with age . Many of the pieces are marked with warty prominences and the scars of adventitious roots . The outer layer which is easily detached covers a shrunken parenchyme . The transverse section of the stem ...
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Page 416 - Menthol occurs as colorless, acicular or prismatic crystals, having a strong and pure odor of peppermint and a warm, aromatic taste, followed by a sensation of cold when air is drawn into the mouth.
Page 479 - ... rather make it a physical drinke to keepe the body in health, than an ordinary drinke for the quenching of our thirst." In reality, other herbs were for a long period employed to impart to malt liquor a bitter or aromatic taste, as Ground Ivy (Nepcta Gleckoma Beuth.); anciently called Ale-hoof or Gill; Alecost (Balsamita vulgans L.); Sweet Gale (Myricv.
Page 311 - Copy of further Correspondence relating to the introduction of the Chinchona Plant into India, and to proceedings connected with its cultivation, from April 1863 to April 1866.
Page 283 - ... in a more concrete form than it might otherwise assume. The thickened mass, which is said by another writer to resemble soft, yellowish clay, is now placed in shallow, square boxes, and when somewhat hardened, is cut into cubes and dried in the shade. The leaves are boiled a second time, and finally washed in water, which water is saved for another operation. A plantation with five or six labourers contains on an average 70,000 to 80,000 shrubs, and yields from 50 to 60 Ibs.
Page 123 - ... strip of bark for about five inches below the wound. This is left for a month when a fresh incision is made in the same place but deeper. A third month elapses and the operation is again repeated after which the gum is supposed to have attained a proper degree of consistency. The mountain sides are immediately covered with parties of men and boys who scrape off the large clear globules into a basket, while the inferior quality that has run down the tree is packed separately.
Page 465 - Small Sassafras Rootes to be drawen in the winter and dryed and none to be medled with in the somer and yt is worthe 50* and better, p. Tonne,
Page 566 - ... which they do when quite mature. In some plantations however the cardamoms are gathered in a more reasonable fashion. As they are collected the fruits are carried to the houses, laid out for a few days on mats, then stripped from their scapes, and the drying completed by a gentle fire-heat. In Coorg the fruit is stripped from the scape before drying, and the drying is sometimes effected wholly by sun-heat.
Page 565 - Here they make small clearings, in which the admission of light occasions the plant to develop in abundance. The cardamom plants attain 2 to 3 feet in height during the following monsoon, after which the ground is again cleared of weeds, protected with a fence, and left to itself for a year. About two years after the first clearing the plants begin to flower, and five months later ripen some fruits, but a full crop is not got till at least a year after. The plants continue productive six or seven...
Page 597 - ... inch in greatest diameter. Each piece is obscurely marked on the upper surface with the scars, often hairy, of leaves, and on the under with a zig-zag line of little, elevated dot-like rings, the scars of roots. The...
Page 560 - The lateral rhizomes are sub-cylindrical, attenuated towards either end, generally curved, covered with a rugose skin, and marked more or less plainly with transverse rings. Sometimes one, two, or more short knobs or shoots grow out on one side. The rhizomes, whether round or long, are very hard and firm, exhibiting when broken a dull, waxy, resinous surface, of an orange or orange-brown hue, more or less brilliant. They have a peculiar aromatic odour and taste. " Several varieties of turmeric, distinguished...