The new family herbal; or, Domestic physician : enumerating, with accurate descriptions, all the known vegetables which are any way remarkable for medical efficacy; with an account of their virtues in the several diseases incident to the human frame ... / by William Meyrick.

  • Meyrick, William.
Date:
1790
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Credit: The new family herbal; or, Domestic physician : enumerating, with accurate descriptions, all the known vegetables which are any way remarkable for medical efficacy; with an account of their virtues in the several diseases incident to the human frame ... / by William Meyrick. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    Leaves: long, broad, notched on the edges, fharp pointed, and of-a beautiful dark green colour. They Hand on fhort leaf-ltalks, in an alternate order. Flowers: barren and fertile on the fame tree. Flower-cup: of the barren flower, formed of a Angle leaf, which is bell-lhaped, and divided into five parts. Several of them are attached to a long receptacle, fo as to refemble a catkin. „ Blossom : wanting. Chives: about fourteen ; they are as long as the cup, and have oblong tips. Flower-cup: of the fertile flower, placed in a bud, and compofed of a Angle leaf, with four lharp upright teeth. * Blossom : wanting. Pointal: the feed-bud is inclofed by the cup, and fup- ports three awl-fliaped fliafts, with Ample fummits, which are a little bent backwards. Seed-vessel: a large capfule, or hulk, formed of the cup, and covered with foft prickles. Seeds: two nuts, of an oval Agure, with three corners, containing a large efculent kernel. It is almoft every where cultivated, and flowers in the month of May. There is a thin Ikin fpread over the kernels, which taftes rather auftere, and is the part to be ufed in medicine. This fkin feparated from the nut before it is ripe, and dried, is of a very allringent, binding nature, and is good for fluxes, and immoderate difcharges of the menfes. CHICK-WEED. C- H I C K E N- W E E D. -/UJlne Media, 5. 3. Root: annual, final], white, and compofed of numerous Abres. Stems: very numerous; they are round, full of juice, a foot or more in length, and trail, for the molt part along the ground. Leai es : placed in pairs on long leaf-flalks; they are of an oval Agure, entire on the edges, of a tender fubftancc, and a freih green colour. z^Z z^cc-yi / .
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