Botanic guide to health, and the natural pathology of disease / by A.I. Coffin.
- Albert Isaiah Coffin
- Date:
- [1866]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Botanic guide to health, and the natural pathology of disease / by A.I. Coffin. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![of the schools in administering to the afflicted for the removal of disease. As we have already stated, all diseases originate in one common cause, namely, the absence of an equilibrium of heat, which should circulate through the entire system; to regain this heat when lost, and restore the stomach and its func- tions to a healthy action, should engage our whole attention. We will therefore proceed to name the remedies ; and as we wish to be un- derstood, we shall class them under a few general heads, namely, stimulant, or hot medicines; as- tringent, or rough medicines ; tonic, or hitter medicines, Sc. Previous to entering upon a de- scription of their several qualities, we remark, that Medical Botany has no connection with Scientific Botany as taught in the schools; the former having experience for its basis, whereas the latter has been studied more as a means of affording a pleasing amusement, than for any solid advantages which it is supposed to possess. In this form Scientific Botany has been encouraged, but more for the purpose of adorning the domains of the wealthy, than for any other object. Its patrons and professors can probably give a name to almost every plant that grows, they may arrange and class the several species; ] but here the knowledge of their properties. | may be said to end, for, the science of medi- - cine having been so long involved in mystery, jj no encouragement lias been offered to the bo- tanist strong enough to induce him' to enter upon the investigation of their medicinal value:](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20411327_0098.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
