A botanic guide to health and the natural pathology of disease / [Albert Isaiah Coffin].
- Albert Isaiah Coffin
- Date:
- 1846
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A botanic guide to health and the natural pathology of disease / [Albert Isaiah Coffin]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![in acloth, wet with vinegar, and thou wilt surely be well in the morning.’” This, to the enquirer, (who was my brother,) seemed very rational, for he knew | from experience, that sweating was good for a cold; not satisfied, he next asked the old gentleman, ‘‘ what he would reccommend for rheumatism ?”’ the answer: was, ‘take a pint of yarrow tea, made hot on going to bed, | with a hot brick to thy feet as before, and thou wilt |} |} soon be well.” Being asked, what would expel worms || | from children, he answered as before, ‘‘ give them a || |) strong tea of yarrow, and put a warm brick to the feet, . ; and they will be cured speedily.’’ My brother fairly jf | taxed the old gentleman’s patience, by asking him for remedies for all the diseases that he could call to mind, the || ‘|| answer invariably being, ‘‘a strong tea of yarrow, with || || a hot brick wrapped in a cloth wet with vinegar applied || to the feet, and health would soon be restored.’”’ Chi- || || merical as the old Friend’s advice may appear to many, | I, in my practice, have since proved the correctness of | most of his sayings, and I am of opinion, that if yarrow || was the only medicine sold at the drug shops, there || would not be one quarter of the disease, that there is at | the present time, since all the forms of disease have their |) origin in what is termed cold, in the first instance, by | which heat or the vital principle is injured or impaired ;_ _ || the natural passages being stopped, and the system gen- | {| erally obstructed. It must be clear that any diaphoretie, |] || OF sweating medicine, that acts in accordance with, and | ; Ay not. contrary to, th life and motion, must be a Fe good and potent >; such in fact is yarrows ' | | y ts ‘ i Se U Besides possessing the er to equalize the circula- P tion, by inducing a perspiration to the surface, it is || mildly tonic, and acts with some power upon the kid- |j nies, by promoting a free discharge of urine. A strong |](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29320641_0108.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
