Common Figwort (Scrophularia nodosa) or throatwort as it was once called, is a perennialherb of the family Scrophulariaceae native to Britain and Europe where it grows in damp and wet woods. It has a short, knotted rhizome, a tall, erect, square stem, and opposite, short-stalked, pointed ovate or cordate, coarsely serrate leaves. The flowers are small, two-lipped, flask- shaped, and brownish-red in colour arranged in loose terminal panicles. The fruit is an ovoid capsule containing pitted seeds. It was formerly used in medicine to treat scrofula, and more recently to treat skin complaints. Research Common Figwort
Cynoglossum or hound's-tongue is a genus of plants, of the natural order Boraginaceae, consisting of herbs from the temperate zones. Cynoglossum officinale and Cynoglossum montanum are British plants. The former haa a disagreeable smell like that from mice, and was at one time used as a remedy in scrofula. There are about fifty other species, all coarse plants. Research Cynoglossum
Sir James Bart Clark was a British physician. He was born in 1788 at Banffshire and died in 1870. After taking his arts degree at Aberdeen he studied medicine at Edinburgh, served in the navy as surgeon from 1809 until 1815, when he returned to Edinburgh. He took his degree of MD in 1817, practised in Borne from 1818 to 1826, returned to England in 1826, became physician to the Duchess of Kent in 1835, and on the accession of Queen Victoria was appointed first physician in ordinary to the queen, and shortly afterwards made a baronet. His chief works were treatises on the Sanative Influence of Climate (1829), and on Pulmonary Consumption and Scrofula (1835).
Bromine (named from the Greek bromos meaning a getid odour) is a non-metallic element normally a deep red, corrosive, toxic liquid giving of an irritating reddish brown vapour of disagreeable odour. It has the symbolBr. It was first discovered in salt water by Balard in 1826.
In its general chemical properties it much resembles chlorine and iodine, and is generally associated with them. As bromides it is found in minute quantities in sea-water, in the ashes of marine plants, in animals, and in some salt springs. It may be extracted from bittern by the agency of chlorine. It has bleaching powers like chlorine, and is very poisonous. Its density is about three times that of water. It combines with hydrogen to form hydrobromic acid gas. With oxygen and hydrogen it forms bromic acid. Bromide of potassium (K Br) has sedative and other properties, and is used in medicine (for treating scrofula, goitre, rheumatism, &c.); bromide of silver is used in film photography. Research Bromine
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