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Historical use wording: abortion
Source: Gray's supplement to the pharmacopoeia : being a concise but comprehensive dispensatory and manual of facts and formulae, for the chemist and druggist and medical practitioner by Gray, Samuel Frederick, 1766-1828; Redwood, Theophilus, 1806 - 1892; Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (1848), narrative-offset-1185958.
Ingredients or materials as extracted
- America root: one as a purge, and women several to pro- cure abortion; bark of the root and stems, reduced to powder, are cathartic and emetic; it was one of the plants directed by Charlemagne, in his capitularies, to be grown in every garden ; no doubt as the most ready purge then to be pi’ocured. (L.) Euphorbia ligui.aria. (Roxb.) East Indies
Method as extracted
- Boil according to the source passage: 458 VEGETABLES. — euphorbiace^. as they yield a fine oil, have been proposed for cultivation for that pur- pose; the oil purgative in doses of five or six drops; leaves inebriate fish; milk corrodes warts; decoction depilatory. (G.) This plant, the Catapuntia minor of old Pliarmacopoeias, has drastic seeds; country labourers are said to take one as a purge, and women several to pro- cure abortion; bark of the root and stems, reduced to powder, are cathartic and emetic; it was one of the plants directed by Charlemagne, in his capitularies, to be grown in every garden ; no doubt as the most ready purge then to be pi’ocured. (L.) Euphorbia ligui.aria. (Roxb.) East Indies.
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Primary and supporting references
- Gray's supplement to the pharmacopoeia : being a concise but comprehensive dispensatory and manual of facts and formulae, for the chemist and druggist and medical practitioner — Gray's supplement to the pharmacopoeia : being a concise but comprehensive dispensatory and manual of facts and formulae, for the chemist and druggist and medical practitionerPrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at narrative-offset-1185958.