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The London Dispensatory, containing : 1. the Elements of Pharmacy ; 2. the botanical Description, natural History, chemical Analysis, and medicinal Properties of the Substances of the Materia Medica ; 3. the pharmaceutical Preparations and Compositions of the Pharmacopoeias of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Colleges of Physicians ; the Whole forming a Practical Synopsis of Materia Medica, Pharmacy, and Therepeutics
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Materia Medica.

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Officinal. Menyanthes. Land. Menyanthis trifoliate fo-lia. Edin. Trifolium paludosum. Dub. The leaves ofBuckbean.

Syn. Menianthe (F.) Bitterklee (G.) Trifolio fibrino (/.) Menyamhes ile tres en rama (S.)

This is one of the most beautiful of our indigenous plants.It is a perennial, not uncommon in watery situations, in ablack boggy soil, flowering in June and July. The root islong, round, fibrous, and of a black colour; the stems arespreading, branched, and clothed with sheathing footstalks,each of which supports a ternate leaf, formed of three obovatesmooth, bluntly toothed leaflets, of a beautiful green on theupper surface, and pale beneath: the flower stalk, whichsprings from within the sheath of a leaf, is longer than theleaves, erect, smooth, round, bearing a thyrsus of about tenflowers, accompanied by small ovate entire bractes: the calyxis obtusely five-toothed; the corolla a funnel-shaped petal,cleft into five deep segments, which are white, tipped withrose colour, and closed within with long fleshy shaggy fibres ontheir upper side: the anthers are sagittate, and of a red colour:the germen round: and the stigma cloven and notched, on aslender style twice the length of the stamens.

Qualities. — The leaves of buckbean have a faint disagree-able odour, and an intensely bitter nauseous taste, which isextracted by infusion with water.

Medical properties and mes. — Buckbean is tonic, diuretic,und purgative. It has been used with seeming benefit in re-mittent and intermittent fevers, rheumatism, arthritic affec-tions, and in cachectic and cutaneous diseases. In large dosesit is apt to excite vomiting. The dose of the dried leaves pow-dered, is from 3j to 5j; or of an infusion made with %{& of thedried leaves, and boiling water Ofs, from f^j to fjyfs may betaken three or four times a day. It is adviseable to unitesome aromatic with either of these forms.

MEZEREI CORTEX. Mezereon Bark. Vide Daphne.MOMORDICA. Spec. Plant. Willd. iv. 601.CI. 21. Ord.8. Moncecia Monadelphia. Nat.ord. Cucurbitacese.G. 1739. Male. Calyx five-cleft. Corolla five-parted. Filaments five.Female. Calyx five-cleft. Corolla five-parted. Style trifid.Gourd opening elastically.Species 13. M. Elaterium. * Squirting Cucumber. Med. Bot.

2d edit. t. 72.Officinal. Elaterii poma. * Lond. Elaterium. Edin. Elate-rium ; fructtjs. Dub. The fruit of the Wild Cucumber: Ela-terium.Syn.Concooabre sauvage (F.) Esselsgurhen (G.) Cocomero salvatico (7.) Cohorobril/o (S.)

• XiWf ay(its Dioscoridis. * The London College have erred in styling the

fruit an apple, as it is evidently a pepo or gourd.

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