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MEDICO-BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 
HOLLY AND ILICINE. 
Aw Essay on tue Use or Hotty anp [xicine in THe Cure or 
Intermirrent Fevers, (for which the Silver Medal of the 
Session 1832 was awarded.) By L. F. E. Rousseau, m.p., 
Chef des Travaux Anatomiques au Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle 
de Paris, Membre de plusieurs Societes savantes, nationales et 
étrangéres, &c. 
{Read at a general Meeting of the Fellows, 12th June, 1832; Earl Staxnops, President, in 
the chair. Translated and condensed by Geonae CLeNnvInNninG, Esq., Secretary.] 
Tue Medico-Botanical Society of London having proposed 
to award a silver medal to whomsoever should make known 
“the medicinal qualities and uses of any indigenous plants 
the properties of which are not yet sufficiently acknowledged, 
or any new uses and applications of other indigenous plants 
which may have been unduly neglected or forgotten,” I pur- 
pose presenting for the concours proposed by that very learned 
Society the accompanying paper, exemplifying the great ad- 
vantages I have reaped from the use of the leaves of the 
common holly (Ilex x Guifotium) in the treatment of intermit- 
tent fever, &c. 
The unjust neglect which this indigenous shrub has expe- 
rienced by its omission in the modern materia medice has for 
many years engaged my attention. 1 have also solicited the 
co-operation of many of my colleagues, whose conclusive ob- 
servations bear testimony to the facts which I have the honour 
to present, in order to obtain a recompence which it is more 
easy anxiously to desire than actually to gain. 
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