This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1830 Excerpt: ...vera and /. punctata, which are eaten in small quantities in the Antilles, but which, taken more copiously, would have the same effect as our Carobs, There are some fruit-of Legumiuttsae, for example, the Sophdra and the Gleditschie, with tumid pods, in which is found a juice winch surrounds, it is true, the seeds, as ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1830 Excerpt: ...vera and /. punctata, which are eaten in small quantities in the Antilles, but which, taken more copiously, would have the same effect as our Carobs, There are some fruit-of Legumiuttsae, for example, the Sophdra and the Gleditschie, with tumid pods, in which is found a juice winch surrounds, it is true, the seeds, as in the plants just mentioned, but which differs from them altogether in its very astringent and nauseous flavour; the nature and properties of this juice deserve to be examined by enemiste, and would undoubtedly throw some light upon the nature of Leguminosa. I am induced to think, that the astringent juice of the Suphbra is a secretion of the pericarp, whilst the sweet and purgative juice of the Cassia would be a secretion of the external part of the seed; but this hypothesis requires to be verified: what leads me to this opinion, is the flavour commonly found in hus-ks; in the Carobs, for example, the husk is astringent, and the pulp sweet and laxative. But let us return to the properties winch may Ы' attributed to the extractive principle. It is undoubtedly from some one of these modifications that the singular property of the Piscidia and many Galegas is derived, which are employed in America to stupefy fish, which are taken by this means as readily as with Nux vomica. The decoction of the root of Galega virginiana is considered in America asapowerful vermifuge. It is, perhaps, indeed, to the very same cause that the rubefacient powers of the fresh leaves of some Leguminosa are tobe ascribed, which act readily upon the skin if applied as plasters; as, for example, in Orntthopus scorpioides among ourselves, and Moringa pterygosperma elsewhere. It appears to me, that it is to the greater or less considerable mixtu...
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