The Trees of America; Native and Foreign, Pictorially and Botanically Delineated, and Scientifically and Popularly DescribedHarper & brothers, 1857 - 520 páginas |
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... bark of its roots was used by them in Flor- ida , in combination with snake - root , as a substitute for the Peruvian bark , in the treatment of intermittents . " If fever's fervid rage * * Glow'd in the boiling veins ...
... bark of its roots was used by them in Flor- ida , in combination with snake - root , as a substitute for the Peruvian bark , in the treatment of intermittents . " If fever's fervid rage * * Glow'd in the boiling veins ...
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... bark is also used in some parts of the country , like that of the cinchona , in the case of intermittent and remittent fevers . It is aromatic and pungent , apparently more so than the other species . When distilled , it has a peculiar ...
... bark is also used in some parts of the country , like that of the cinchona , in the case of intermittent and remittent fevers . It is aromatic and pungent , apparently more so than the other species . When distilled , it has a peculiar ...
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... bark on the trunk is gray , smooth , and polished , and if cut when green , exhales a disagreeable odour . The leaves are eighteen or twenty inches long , and seven or eight inches broad . They are thin , oval , and acuminate at both ...
... bark on the trunk is gray , smooth , and polished , and if cut when green , exhales a disagreeable odour . The leaves are eighteen or twenty inches long , and seven or eight inches broad . They are thin , oval , and acuminate at both ...
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... bark on old stocks is grayish , and deeply furrowed . The leaves upon old trees are from six to seven inches long , and from three to four inches broad , and double that size upon young , vigorous ones . In general , on adult trees ...
... bark on old stocks is grayish , and deeply furrowed . The leaves upon old trees are from six to seven inches long , and from three to four inches broad , and double that size upon young , vigorous ones . In general , on adult trees ...
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... bark of this tree is considered , by some , as scarcely inferior to the cin- chona , being a powerful tonic and antiseptic . The aromatic principle appears to reside in a resinous part of the substance of the bark , and , when used ...
... bark of this tree is considered , by some , as scarcely inferior to the cin- chona , being a powerful tonic and antiseptic . The aromatic principle appears to reside in a resinous part of the substance of the bark , and , when used ...
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