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Library · A Contribution to South African Materia Medica (third edition), 1895

Sutherlandia frutescens, R. Br.—Dutch, Kanker bos. (Plants used as tonics)

Andrew Smith, p. 62. Transcribed from the page image on September 25, 2026, as printed.

(See Cancer). A preparation from the leaves of this plant, made in any of the ordinary ways, is employed as a tonic. Its probable function may be presumed from the more pronounced effects of the plant, referred to elsewhere, though its suitability in any case can be found out only by experiment.