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].

  • Hill, John, 1714?-1775
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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    % The whole Plant has a ftrong and very par¬ ticular fmell, and a bitterifh tafte. Provident Nature, which has placed it every where at ©ur doors, has doubtlefs given to it thefe ftriking qualities, to invite us toitsufe* which is indeed very great* * In diforders ariling from obftruftion of eva¬ cuations peculiar to the female fex, its virtues are beyond all praife; and above'all value* Steel given on thefe occafions tears the con¬ futation y and, for a little prefect good, fome- times entails a lafting feries of diforders. The chymical preparations of Steel are yet by many degrees more hurtful than its fimple felf: and we have here an innocent Herb, incapable of harm, ready at hand, that will do all the good that can be expe&ed from them; without the poffibility of mifchief*