A new medicinal, economical, and domestic herbal: containing a familiar and accurate description of upwards of six hundred British herbs, shrubs, trees, etc. together with some of themost esteemed ... exotic plants ... / The whole compiled and selected from the works of Linnaeus, Bechstein, Withering, Dambourney, Barthollet, etc.

Date:
1808
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Credit: A new medicinal, economical, and domestic herbal: containing a familiar and accurate description of upwards of six hundred British herbs, shrubs, trees, etc. together with some of themost esteemed ... exotic plants ... / The whole compiled and selected from the works of Linnaeus, Bechstein, Withering, Dambourney, Barthollet, etc. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ^ ^ ■*- this herb, which to them are a gooil cleansing and strengthening medicine. Bees extract from the flowers a balsamic honey; hence its growth should be encouraged ad even artificially pro- moted, especially as it is one of those plants, which have lately •been used with success, as a substitute for oak-bark, in tanning, and in preparing a kind of morocco from sheep, calf, and goat’s skin. Lastly, Da.mbou.rney asserts, that, from the leaves of this species he produced a beautiful and permanent gold colour, in •dying wool properly prepared byasolution of bismuth.~D. End. ANISE.—Or Pimpinella, is an annual umbelliferous and aro- matic plant, of which there are ten species, though three are scarcely indigenous. (See Table 139» Or. N’s. Herbal.) Tor descriptions, ,Vc. see burnet, ard saxifrage. APPLE-TREE.—It is supposed by Botanits to have origi- nated from the Crab-Apple of the woods and hedges : It is too well known to need a description. Medicinal Properties.—It deserves to be stated, that besides their aromatic qualities, they are wholesome and laxative when fully ripe. In diseases of the breast, such as catarrhs, asthmas, con- sumptions, &c. they are of considerable service to neutralize the acrimony, and attenuate the vicidity of the humours ; for these beneficial purposes, they ought either to be roasted, stewed, or boiled. Apples should be gathered with the hand and carefully placed in baskets to keep, with a pail or two of water in the room with them,!which will preserve the fruit from the effects of frost, in severe winter. ARCHANGEL, Red.—It hath square stalks rather hairy, at the joints grow two dark green leaves, dented round the edges, and nearly round, but a little pointed, crumpled and hairy : to- wards the top grow the opening flowers of a pale red colour. The root is small and the whole plant hath a strong smell ; it perisbeth every year. White and Yellow Archangel, so named from the colour of the flowers, are nearly similar, (see the Icons Table 114, Dr. N’s. Herbal.) Place and Time, they grow very common, the yellow kind usu- ally in wet ground and woods, nearly all over Britain. Medicinal Uses.—Culpepper says, if the herb be bruised and laid on the rape of the neck it will stop bleeding at the nose or mouth ; if mixed with salt, vinegar and hog’s grease, will dis- solve swellings arising from the king’s evil : will cure green or ©Id wounds, bruises and burns. ARRACH, Wild and Stinking.—Or Orrach, it hath nearly round leaves, yet a little pointed, of a dusky colour, the flowers are in clusters set with the leaves, the seeds sow themselves from whence arise fresh plants yearly. It is generally found on dung- hills, and flowers in June, or July, and drops its seed soon after. Medicinal Virtues.—A syrup made from the juice of this plant