The pharmacopoeia, of the Royal College of Physicians of London / translated into English, with notes, indexes of new names, preparations, &c. &c. by the late Thomas Healde, M.D. F.R.S. Lumleyan lecturer at the College of Physicians, and senior physician of the London Hospital.

  • Royal College of Physicians of London.
Date:
1796
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Credit: The pharmacopoeia, of the Royal College of Physicians of London / translated into English, with notes, indexes of new names, preparations, &c. &c. by the late Thomas Healde, M.D. F.R.S. Lumleyan lecturer at the College of Physicians, and senior physician of the London Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    lock, which is the mildeft, be diftinguifhed from the reft, and from, other plants alfo to which it is in appear-r ance fimilar. The root is biennial, white, the thicknefs of a finger, often branched—the firft year only producing leaves, when rt yields, on being cut, a milky liquor; the fe- cond year, when it has ftalks, it is almoft juicelefs, (Jacquin FI. Aujlr.) The ftalk, which rifes feveral feet high, is as thick as the finger—round, hollow, with impervious knots, greenifh, and having commonly fpots of a deep red. (Jacquin, ib.) Variegated irregularly with ftreaks and fpots of a red or blackifti purple,^ (L. M. M.) The leaves are large, with an hollow round rib, (Jacquin,) of a dark or blackifti green colour on the upper fide, and of a whitifti green underneath, feparated into a number of final], oblong, fomewhat oval, fig- ments, which ftand in pairs: thefe fegments are again deeply cut, but not quite divided, on both fides; and many of thefe ultimate fedtioris have one or two flighter indentions. (L. M. M.) The flowers confift of five white pointed petals. The feeds are flat on one fide, on the other convex, and rendered unequal by five ele- vated ftriae. (Jacquin.) Thefe ftriae, Hagen fays, are elegantly indented like a faw, and that this laft is a moft certain charadleriftic. (Fla gin Apotherk.) The whole plant is fomewhat fmooth. The leaves, ftalks, and flowers, have a peculiar fetid fmell of mice, which, at fome times, is in the higheft degree; at others, fo lit- tle, even in the fame plant, as fcarcely to be perceptible, unlefs when rubbed between the fingers. Jacquin. The C 2 Hemlock*