The complete herbalist, or, the people their own physicians by the use of nature's remedies showing the great curative properties of all herbs, gums, balsams, barks, flowers and roots ; how they should be prepared, when and under what influences selected, at what times gathered, and for what diseases administered. Also, separate treatises on fod and drinks ; clothing ; exercise ; the regulation of the passions, life, health, and disease; longevity; medication; air and sunshine ; bathing ; sleep, etc. Also, symptoms of prevalent diseases ; special treatment in special cases; and a new and plain system of hygienic principles / by O. Phelps Brown.

  • Brown, O. Phelps (Oliver Phelps), active 1871.
Date:
1871
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Credit: The complete herbalist, or, the people their own physicians by the use of nature's remedies showing the great curative properties of all herbs, gums, balsams, barks, flowers and roots ; how they should be prepared, when and under what influences selected, at what times gathered, and for what diseases administered. Also, separate treatises on fod and drinks ; clothing ; exercise ; the regulation of the passions, life, health, and disease; longevity; medication; air and sunshine ; bathing ; sleep, etc. Also, symptoms of prevalent diseases ; special treatment in special cases; and a new and plain system of hygienic principles / by O. Phelps Brown. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    most active; a teaspoonful of the powder will act as a pnrga/- tive. A decoctioa of the bark or berries will be found of service as a wash or gargle in apthous sore mouth and chronic opthalmia. BEAD TREE. Melia Azedabach. Description.—This is an elegant tree, sometimes known as Bead Tree, Pride of China, etc. It has a trunk about a foot and a half in diameter and obtains the height of thirty or forty feet; rough bark, lilac colored flowers, and a fruit of the size of a small ohve, with one five-celled bony nut j cells one- seeded. History.—It is a native of China, but cultivated in the warm climates of Europe and America. It does not grow to any extent north of Yirginiii, aud flowers early in the Spring. Its name of Bead Tree is derived from the use to which its hard nuts are put in Roman Catholic countries, viz—for making rosaries. The recent bark of the root is the most active part for medicinal purposes ; it has a disagreeably bitter taste, and a very unpleasant odor, and imparts its properiics to water at 212« F. Government a7id Virtues.—Tt is governed by Mercwy. The bark is anthelmintic, aud in large doses narcotic aud emetic. It is useful in worm fevers, aud in infantile remittents, in which, although worms are absent, yet the symptoms are similar to those accompanying the prcscuco of worms. Dose of the powdered bark, twenty grains. Of the decoc- tion, (which is the best form for administration—two ounces of the bark to a pint of water, and boiled down to half a pint,) a table-spoonful every one, two, or three hours, till the desired effect is obtained. A purgative should follow its employment.— [See Benovating Pill, page 317.] The fruit is somewhat saccharine, and is an excellent remedy to expel worms. Its pulp is used as an ointment for destroying lice and other octozoa, as well as in treatment of scald head and other diseases of the skin. The oil of the nuts is useful as a local application in rheumatism, cramps, obstinate ulcers, etc.