The virtues of wild valerian in nervous disorders ... With directions for gathering and preserving the root; and for chusing the right kind when it is bought dry. Shewing that the uncertainty of effect in this valuable medicine, is owing to adulteration or ill management / [John Hill].
- John Hill
- Date:
- 1772
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The virtues of wild valerian in nervous disorders ... With directions for gathering and preserving the root; and for chusing the right kind when it is bought dry. Shewing that the uncertainty of effect in this valuable medicine, is owing to adulteration or ill management / [John Hill]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ 13 ] I have raifed at Bayfwater a plant of the fmooth water Crowfoot, which is poilbnous^ from a root fold among Wild Valerian, / Even this carelefs and dangerous mixture is not all the difadvantage we fuffer in re¬ ceiving the drug from fuch hands. The time when roots have their full virtue is before they flioot up a ftalk; and in fuch ftate all that are intended for medicine fhould be gathered: but the plant is moft obvious when in flower; the root at that time is loofer in the ground, and the ftalk is a handle by which it is eafily pulled up. For thefe reafons a great part of what is brought into the Ihops has been taken out of the ground when the plant was in flower; and is therefore, even though the kind were right, unfit for ufe in medicine. Of all thefe imperfedlions the druggifl: fhould beware, for his care may make the gatherers honeft: if he is negligent, the apothecary fhould re- fufe to take fuch as is bad into his £hop: and in cafe of both being carelefs, the pa¬ tient fhould examine the root himfelf, ac- c:ording to the following charablers. CHAP.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30789448_0017.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
