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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![94 3 made of this herb has long been known in this country, |] as useful to restore a tone to the stomach; it removes © female obstructions, promoting menstruation. I have long used it as an external remedy, it having a power- ful effect on the external surface, or cuticle: it is good for bruises, spasms, callosities, shrunk sinews, enlarged joints, white swellings, corns, &c. Yet we would not neglect the all-important theory, that disease has to be expelled internally ; nor for an instant permit the idea, that rubbing or bathing with camomile tea, will of itself, remove internal disease, as has been frequently © asserted by unskilful men, whose stock of knowledge is | limited to a few solitary ideas, and who are generally | | ignorant of the valuable information contained in the — {| book of nature. CHRYSANTHEMUM PARTHENIUM, OR FEVER FEW, ; OR FEATHER-FEW. An herb cultivated in gardens; it is stimulating, |} i ‘producing: perspiration, and acts on the urinary organs. | | If half that is said of the properties of this herb by _ | Culpepper, be true, it would seem that woman could | scarcely require any other medicine, particularly before | {| and after labour. That asa stimulant and diuretic, it | exerts great control over the system, I entertain no i} ‘doubt. But one of the great mistakes of ancient writers, || | particularly those who pretend to discover the properties | | of plants and herbs from astronomical and astrological | | calculations, i is to ase ibe to them more virtues than | they really possess. Thus the mind has been trained in || error, and many have failed o! Wein cured by placing t too | much dependence on a ¢ particular herb, in consequence qP of its being said to be under the controling influence of some particular planet. My readers will find that I | a act only on fixed abs ani ; my “pulediay of disea e](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29320641_0110.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
