Plant - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 41231 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 9.00 SARRACENIACEAE Sarracenia purpurea | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Plant | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Canada | TDWG Region | Canada | ||
| Parts Held | Plant | Geography Description | Nova Scotia | ||
| Uses | PlantUse: MEDICINES User: Man | TDWG use | MEDICINES | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Dr McWilliam, R.N., C.B. | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 07/10/1861 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Notes: | Opuscular source: A new remedy for the smallpox. The Saracenia purpurea of Indian cup, a native plant of Nova Scotia, which we mentioned sometime ago as being the specific used by the Indians against the smallpox, bids fair to realise the expectations e, ntertained by medical men of its efficacy. In a letter addressed to the American Medical Times, Dr Frederic W Komis (?) President Physician of the ...?...(place name ?) Visiting Dispensary, states that this Saracenia, a papaveraceous plant, will cure smal, lpox in all its forms within 12 hours after the patient has taken the decoction 'however alarming and numerous the eruptions', he says or confluent or frightful they may be, the peculiar action of the medicine is such that very seldom is a scar left to te, ll the story of the disease. If either vassive (?) or variolous (?) matter is washed with the infusion of the Saracenia (sic) they are deprived of their contagious properties. So mild is the medicine to the taste that it may be largely mixed with tea and, coffee, and given to connoisseurs in their beverages to drink without being aware of the admixture. The medicine has been sucessfully tried in the hospitals of Nova Scotia and its use will be continued. Galignani Times Oct 20.1802 | ||||