An inaugural botanico-medical dissertation, on the Phytolacca decandra of Linnaeus / by Benjamin Shultz, of Pennsylvania, member of the Philadelphia Medical Society.

  • Shultz, Benjamin.
Date:
1795
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Credit: An inaugural botanico-medical dissertation, on the Phytolacca decandra of Linnaeus / by Benjamin Shultz, of Pennsylvania, member of the Philadelphia Medical Society. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INTRODUCTION. 1 HERE is, in this country, an immenfe variety of native plants, as yet but little known, which may, at fome future day, furnilh valuable matter to enrich the Materia Medica and Bo- tany ; fciences which, even in this enlightened age, arc far from having arrived at a ftate of per- fcftion. With what enthufiafm, and at how much ex- pence, do we fend many thoufand miles for exotic plants, whofc virtues may, perhaps, be far infe- rior to many of our own, which, by a little in- duftry, might be brought to a (late of culture and perfeftion, of which other countries cannot boaft, and of which preceding botanifts have had but a' faint idea I Were we to profecute our rcfearches a little farther than we heretofore have done, we might extend the natural hiftory of our country beyond its prefent bounds, and bring to public view an im- portant objed, hitherto unexamined except by B favages.