Contributions towards the materia medica & natural history of ChinaAmerican Presbyterian Mission Press, 1871 - 237 pàgines |
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Contributions Towards the Materia Medica & Natural History of China: For the ... Frederick Porter Smith Visualització completa - 1871 |
Contributions Towards the Materia Medica & Natural History of China: For the ... Frederick Porter Smith Visualització completa - 1871 |
Contributions Towards the Materia Medica & Natural History of China: For the ... Frederick Porter Smith Visualització completa - 1871 |
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Pàgina 38 - They are composed of a mucilaginous substance, but as yet they have never been analyzed with sufficient accuracy to show the constituents. Externally, they resemble ill-concocted, fibrous isinglass, and are of a white colour, inclining to red. Their thickness is little more than that of a silver spoon, and the weight from a quarter to half an ounce. When dry they are brittle and wrinkled ; the size is nearly that of a goose's egg.
Pàgina 104 - This drug is prepared as an extract, as a decoction, in silver vessels as a rule. Its effects are apparently those of an alterative tonic stimulant, carminative and demulcent...
Pàgina 104 - Its effects are apparently those of an alterative, tonic, stimulant, caiminativc and demulcent nature. It is prescribed in almost every description of disease of a severe character, with few exceptions, but with many reservations as to the stage of the disease in which it may be administered with the greatest benefit and safety.
Pàgina 166 - Tuckahoe truffle, used in China as a diet article and as a medicine. It occurs in the form of large tubers, varying in size up to a peck measure ; has a corrugated, blackish-brown skin, and consisting internally of a hard starchy substance of a white colour, but sometimes tinged with pale red or brown, especially towards the outside. They are found connected with living fir plantations, or on the sites of old ones, and they are exported to India and elsewhere as China root. Fu-shin is another kind...
Pàgina 211 - ... the bottom which fit upon kettles or boilers. The tallow is softened by this process, and is separated from the albumen of the seeds by gently beating them with stone mallets, when the tallow is effectually removed by sifting the mass through hot sieves.
Pàgina 152 - Large quantities of Fungi are eaten by the Chinese of every province, and have some medicinal or dietetic properties assigned to them. The Polypori, or Boleti, are generally preferred to the Agarics, so largely eaten in Europe.
Pàgina 158 - It is scarcely salable, and is altogether inferior to the oil obtained from the Dryobalanops camphora, on the west coast of Sumatra, where the oil dripping from the split timber of the tree, felled to procure the Borneo or Baros camphor, is sold at the price of a Dutch guilder for a large quart bottleful. It would be worth importing to England for use as a cheap substitute for the Lin.
Pàgina 104 - ... specimens from the effects of damp and the attacks of worms, to which the drug is very liable. This drug is prepared as an extract, or as a decoction, in silver vessels as a rule. . . . Several cases in which life would seem to have been at least prolonged by the taking of doses of this drug, so as to allow of intelligent disposition of property, indicate that some positive efficacy of a sustaining character does really exist in this species of Ivywort.
Pàgina 29 - China, Dr. Porter Smith says that it is used in making incense in the South, or to preserve clothes from the attacks of moths and other insects. It is said to have the power of turning grey hair black. Carminative, stimulant, antiseptic, prophylactic, astringent, sedative, and insecticidal properties are referred to this remedy. The Chinese apply it with musk, which it resembles in odour and properties, to aching teeth.
Pàgina 124 - ... coloured to the tint of the stone by varying proportions of chromium. Its hardness, weight, sonoriety, and peculiar sombre tint are the foundation of the Chinese taste for this stone. Their wearing of this stone is supposed to impart to the wearer, humane, just, intelligent, brave, and pure qualities, and philosophers and physicians have ascribed all sorts of properties to this substance, which for any medicinal purpose can be no better than soapstone or steatite. Jade mines in the Kouen Lun...