Virtues of British herbs. With the history, description, and figures, of the several kinds; an account of the diseases they will cure; the method of giving them; and management of the patients in each disease ... No. I ... / [John Hill].

  • John Hill
Date:
1770
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Credit: Virtues of British herbs. With the history, description, and figures, of the several kinds; an account of the diseases they will cure; the method of giving them; and management of the patients in each disease ... No. I ... / [John Hill]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A few drops of Lettuce wine compofed her for the night; and next day (he began to take the infufion, as here directed to be made, with honey; and only of half the ftrength : two ounces of the Root being ufed to three pints of water^ and that without the boiling* From the time die began this the ufed no other drink ; and from that time die gradually recovered. Her body was, in the mean while, kept open ; not by purges ; for they irritate; but by glyf« ters: and the became fo well, the fervants here could not believe *twas the fame child, thcf brought by the fame perfon* What infinite good may arife from this eafy remedy being once made univerfally known! Tis fo innocent that none need fear to admini- fterit. And if in any cafe circumftances rife which C 3 require
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