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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1833 edition. Excerpt: ... 316 QUALITIES for all the productions of nature are individuals; and, though there be varieties in the successions of individuals, sometimes produced by circumstances which we can imitate and sometimes not, the succession is in the species--that is, the plant bears more resemblance to the immediate parent plant than to a plant of any other kind)--there are often very contradictory or opposite properties in them. Thus, the Jatropha mam/iot, which has been mentioned as forming the bread of the natives of Central America, not only belongs to an exceedingly poisonous family (Euphor4toce, z), but is, when raw, a deadly poison. The various spurges, and other members of the family which are found in England, are all acrid; and their milky juice, which blisters very delicate skin, is used to remove warts and other callosities. Some plants of that family yield valuable, or at all events powerful medicines, such as castor and croton oils; but some of them act too powerfully for being used even in the smallest quantity. The perennial mercury, or " dog's cabbage," said to be so called from dogs preferring it to any other plant, .when they physic themselves with green vegetables, and which grows in the woods of some parts of Britain, the male plants usually in one patch and the females in another, is eatable, though still aperient when wellboiled, but poisonous raw, or even roasted or fried. That property is so general, that when experiments are made as to whether new;vegetables may or may not be used as food, the safest plan is to boil them, and throw away the water in which they are boiled. One of the most curious orders of plants in that respect is the Jig tribe, or, as they are sometimes called, from comprehending the different species of...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781150940743
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 104
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150940743
  • Publisher Date: 05 May 2014
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 200 gr


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