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cases where that class of remedies is indicated. The only effects of an 

 overdose ai'e headache and nausea. It also possesses antiseptic and astrin- 

 gent powers in a very eminent degree, and is universally employed as a 

 febriHige in the cure of intermittent and remittent fever. Intermittent fever 

 is the disease for the cure of which the bark was introduced into practice, 

 and there is still no remedy which equals it in power ; a superiority of 

 which, from its known operation, it is difficult to give any explanation. 

 Little diversity of opinion now exists with regard to the rules regulating its 

 administration. It is given freely in the earliest stage of the disease, and 

 without any previous preparation, farther than tlie exhibition of an emetic 

 to evacuate the stomach," 



Messrs. Stephenson and Churchill observe, that it is very agreeable to 

 them to close " their Medical Botany with an intimation, the subject of 

 which, they trust, may prove a valuable acquisition to the materia medica. 

 We have had information that Sir Robert Ker Porter, the British resi- 

 dent at Caraccas in South America, and who first introduced the know- 

 ledge of the Guaco plant (a nondescript species of Mikania), with some of 

 its seeds and extract, into this country, has liberally shipped off a large 

 quantity of the plant from that country (entirely at his own expense) for 

 England, so prepared as to enable our medical men to give full experiment 

 to its alleged virtue, as an antidote to the poison of venomous reptiles, and 

 as a preventive or cure of that terrific malady the hydrophobia." 



A very useful tabular index of the names, botanical characteristics, parts 

 used, operations, and uses, is given ; besides an index of English names, a 

 glossary of terms, an explanation of abbreviated words, titles of books, 

 and a list of plates. On the whole, the work is rendered very complete ; 

 it is very cheap, considering the excellent manner in which it is got up ; and 

 we suppose it may be considered the best Medical Botany extant. Of this, 

 however, it is but candid to state that we ourselves are not competent to 

 judge; and that M'e have heard doubts upon the subject from those who 

 ought to know, but who are probably not sufficiently impartial. 



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iS^o. XXXVI. fo?- October, contains 



Ml. The Ribston Pipinn, Travers's Apple, Formosa Pippin, Glory of 

 York. Said to have been raised from seeds brought from Rouen in Nor- 

 mandy, about 1690, and sown at Ribston in Yorkshire. It having been 

 doubted whether the old Ribston Pippin tree was a seedling or grafted, 

 cuttings of the roots were sent to the garden of the Horticultural Society ; 

 and the shoots from these having fruited, and produced fruit in no respect 

 different from other grafted trees of the Ribston Pippin, the fact of the 

 original being a seedling is fully established. Such is the oi'igin of an apple 

 " of the highest excellence, and perhaps not to be surpassed." 



It has been said that the Formosa Pippin was a Ribston, improved by 

 the stock on which it was worked. On this subject Mr. Thompson has 

 the following excellent observations : — " Still this made it nothing but a 

 Ribston Pippin. It is well known that the stock will have an effect upon 

 the variety worked upon it ; so will the soil upon which it may be planted. 

 The stock, the soil, the climate, and pruning, all have an effect ; and a com- 

 bination of these must have a powerful effect, but never that of producing 

 a permanentli/ dijferent thing. If the Mignonne Petite Peach coidd be 

 grown to equal in size the Grosse Mignonne, I would not even then alter 

 my opinion ; but when the reniform glands of the former can be changed 

 by cultivation into globose, like those of the latter, it might then be admit- 

 ted that one sort may be made into another, independently of being raised 

 from seed. 



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