The virtues of honey in preventing many of the worst disorders; and in the certain cure of several others ... the gravel, asthmas ... consumptions, etc / to which is prefix'd an account of the origin and nature of honey; its various kinds, English and foreign; and the marks which distinguish them: also a method to obtain honey as fine in England as from any part of the world; and the best ways of taking it. With the genuine receipt for the syrup of capillaire as made in Italy; and for the celebrated Aristaean confection. [Anon].

  • Hill, John, 1714?-1775.
Date:
1759
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Credit: The virtues of honey in preventing many of the worst disorders; and in the certain cure of several others ... the gravel, asthmas ... consumptions, etc / to which is prefix'd an account of the origin and nature of honey; its various kinds, English and foreign; and the marks which distinguish them: also a method to obtain honey as fine in England as from any part of the world; and the best ways of taking it. With the genuine receipt for the syrup of capillaire as made in Italy; and for the celebrated Aristaean confection. [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAP. I. Tl&f Nature and‘Origin of Honey] ONE Y, tho* we owe it to the Bee, is originally a vegetable fubftance. All plants contain this fvveet juice: in fomc it IS difcharged pure and unmix’d in¬ to the bottom's of their flowers; in others it comes tainted with their common juices, and is by that mixture rendered difagree- able, or hurtfull. The Bees are our pro¬ viders and they are excellent purveyors: they pegleft thofe flowers wherein the Honey is debafed by a mixture of other juices; and gather it only from fuch as hold it pure and unalter’d. The quantity each flower affords is fo very fmall, that human induflry never cou'dcolleft it; but thefe little infeds are indefatigable: their numbers make the general ftore confider- able, and we are fupplied by them for all our occafions. The Bee makes no change iri the nature of the Honey :fuch as fhe receives it from the flower, fuch fhe delivers it to the Hive; and the thing is the fame in all refpedts, whether we fuck it from the bot¬ tom of the flower, or take it out of the body