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

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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$organs of fmell than we, plainly perceive, and fhew this. There are certain fcentS' which afFed: them, and they are princi¬ pally of the fcBtid kind 5 though not with¬ out exception : they will bufy themfelves extremely about the Water Valerian roots • but fhew little regard to the other. • • * CHAP. VII. - * : ' Of gathering the Ro^\ % SUCH are the charaders by which the true Heath Valerian Root is to be known froni the falfe kind, ufualiy fold under its names and when a parcel of this is found in the hands of thofe people who deal in it, before it is ufed, it fliould be picked,, and, cleanfed : thofe roots which fliew they have borne a ftalk, are to be rejedled, and tKe runners, or jointed and light firings, muft be picked away from the true* fibres. Thus the druggift will be fure he fells what the dodor preferibes : but there ftill remains a doubt about its value. The high flavour of the Valerian root is loft in long keeping; and when that is gone, the virtue is in great part loft with it. This root fhould never be ufed when it more than one year old from gathering; and th© feller's word is not to be taken on this : accounti \$