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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![|| leaves, or pods, or if the seed could be obtained, it would be still better, may be given every half hour in a cup of vervain tea, or penny-royal, and repeated until it operates as an emetic ;—never mind Hooper, but give — | enough. Cayenne tea, or some other stimulant, may then be freely given, so as to induce and keep up a | strong perspiration ; or a vapour bath would be very useful, given as I generally administer them ; particulars of which will be given under its proper aaah For chil- dren, the acid tincture of lobelia, is better than the | powder; to which, add a tea of penny-royal, instead of cayenne pepper. When the emetic has fairly done its Shee work, the patient may take such food as the APR hier most desires. VERBENA HASTATA, OR VERVAIN. There are numerous kinds of this herb. In the Encyclopedia, no less than twenty-one kinds are enu- u Be merated. The above named bears a blue blossom; pis |]. | perennial, or of continual growth: is much cultivated tf in gardens, but grows wild in many places ;_ it rises from 4: eighteen to twenty inches in height, with many ‘branches, a0 -j| its leaves resembling those of the nettle ; it flowers on ‘|| the top. I have found it in all the countries in which I || have travelled; it grows abundantly in France and || America, and is one of the most valuable herbs to be | met with in this country. As an emetic, it ranks next to lobelia; it is also one of the strongest sweating i| medicines in nature. It is good for colds, coughs, and | pain in the head, and some Years ago, was highly || esteemed as a remedy for consumption. As an rae || it supersedes the use of antimony or ipecacuanha ; j| both of which it is superior, since it not only ee ‘| all the good effects ascribed to the others, but it operates without any of the dangerous consequences that ever ie sae a oS ea ; fk. <= s at re ond = oy ee ae oe y we](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29320641_0115.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
