An investigation of the properties of the Liriodendron tulipifera, or poplar-tree / by Patrick Kerr Rogers.

  • Rogers, Patrick Kerr, 1776-1828.
Date:
1802
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Credit: An investigation of the properties of the Liriodendron tulipifera, or poplar-tree / by Patrick Kerr Rogers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    wished to ascertain its real value in those complaints in which it has been used by the country people ; and also, to try its virtues in other diseases, to which, from its peculiar constitution, and active powers, it appears to be adapted. I have not, however, been enabled to pro- ceed so for at the present period. I have made the che- mical investigation as satisfactory as I could; and I have endeavored to give a view of its peculiar medical proper- ties, with the influence it exerts on the healthy human frame. It was already observed, that the root has been found a good tonic, and I have no doubt, but that the bark of the tree, from its analysis, its effects on the heal- thy system, and its avered powers in disease, will become a valuable article of the Materia Medica. The ease with which it can be procured ought to make it a desirable substitute for expensive medicines of perhaps inferior efficacy. Should the present feeble eifort contribute, in any way, to render this elegant vegetable more generally useful, it will be to me the happiest consideration.