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LEXICON 



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OF 



MEDICAI. ECtlJIVAI.EJVTS: 



OR 



Jllphahetical Enumeration of all the Medical Plants of 



the United States omitted in the 100 selected ^^rii- 



clesy with additions and corrections^ <5'C. 



1. This second part of the present v/ork could easily 

 have been enlarged to a size equal to the first. But it 

 must be Uuiited to a mere catalogue of additional medi- 

 cal plants, with a short account of their uses and pro- 

 perties. 



^2. Some, of the mentioned plants are as valuable as 

 many of the selected ones, and of well ascertained pro- 



erties : upon these, it will be needful to dwell a little 



onger. Such are the genera Abies^ Iris^ Angelica^ Sina- 

 pis^ Croton^ Mentha^ Qiiercus^ Esculus, Hleraclum^ Ni- 

 cotiana^ Viburnum^ Iaiuths^ Lactuca^ Morus^ Pnimis^ 

 Phytolaca^ Liatris^ Pinus^ Sambiicus^ and many more. 



^ 3. No botanical account can here be given ; the bota- 

 nical names will enable to consult books on the subject- 

 When the plants are undescribed in Michaux, Fursh, 

 Nuttall, Elliott, Torrey, Eaton, &c. they will be de- 

 scribed in the botanical supplement. 



4, The medical indications are taken from all sources, 

 personal observations and communications, or from au- 

 thors, chiefly from Schoepf» Cutler, Thatcher, Mease, 

 Bii^elow, Smith, Henry, Williams, Josselyn. Castidione, 

 Kalm, Ives, the two Bartons, Drayton, Gambofd, El- 

 liott, Coxe, Zollickofter, Eberle, &.c. Thus including-the 

 result of the whole actual knowied^^e ou our medical 

 plants. 



5» When medical plants are mere equivalents of each 

 other, they may be mentioned as such. But even such 

 equivalents may have some peculiar spparate propertr. 

 Tiie whole will evince how an^ple is our vp<?etabie ^fa- 

 teria Medica, and how adequate to ail needful purposes, 



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