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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... sometimes as much as an inch in thickness . This root tapers off in a long tail , while numerous branching rootlets spring from its sides . If dug up in the summer it will be found that a second and younger root ( occasionally a third ) ...
... sometimes as much as an inch in thickness . This root tapers off in a long tail , while numerous branching rootlets spring from its sides . If dug up in the summer it will be found that a second and younger root ( occasionally a third ) ...
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... sometimes short four - sided prisms . Duquesnel who has studied with attention the proporties of crystal- line aconitine obtained from A. Napellus grown in Europe , describes it as anhydrous , nearly insoluble in water even at 100 ° C ...
... sometimes short four - sided prisms . Duquesnel who has studied with attention the proporties of crystal- line aconitine obtained from A. Napellus grown in Europe , describes it as anhydrous , nearly insoluble in water even at 100 ° C ...
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... sometimes rolled itself into a tube only three times as much in external diameter . Young pieces have an ashy- grey suberous coat beset with lichens . In older bark , the outer coat is sometimes whitish and silvery , but more often of a ...
... sometimes rolled itself into a tube only three times as much in external diameter . Young pieces have an ashy- grey suberous coat beset with lichens . In older bark , the outer coat is sometimes whitish and silvery , but more often of a ...
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... sometimes of a dull greenish brown . Roots of about an inch in diameter cut transversely exhibit a central column 0.2 to 04 of an inch in diameter , composed of 10 to 20 con- verging wedges of large - pored woody tissue with 3 or 4 ...
... sometimes of a dull greenish brown . Roots of about an inch in diameter cut transversely exhibit a central column 0.2 to 04 of an inch in diameter , composed of 10 to 20 con- verging wedges of large - pored woody tissue with 3 or 4 ...
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... sometimes take a spiral direction . Knots one to three feet apart , sometimes throwing out a branch , also occur . The root is rather darker in colour but not very different in structure from the stem . The fracture of the stem is ...
... sometimes take a spiral direction . Knots one to three feet apart , sometimes throwing out a branch , also occur . The root is rather darker in colour but not very different in structure from the stem . The fracture of the stem is ...
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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...