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.

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    The frelh root is acrid, and taken internally, it firft caufes vomiting, and afterwards purges a little. Bruifed and applied to wounds, bruifes, or drains, it removes the inflammation and pain with which they are attended, and effedls a fpeedy cure. DAISY. Beilis Perrennis, ig. 2. Root : perennial; confiding of numerous, long, (lender, white fibres, connefted into a fmall head. Leaves : rifing from the head of the root in a large circular duller; they are of an oblong form, blunt at the extremities, (lightly notched on the edges, and of a dark green colour. Stems: frequently numerous; they are round, hairy, and three or four inches high. Flowers: folitary, large, and of the compound kind; they are mod commonly white, but the outfide florets are more or lefs tinged with a beautiful carmine red, and the center is yellow. Flower-cup : compofed of feveral (from 10 to 20) fmall, pointed leaves, placed in a double row. Blossom: compofed of numerous florets, which in the center are of a tubular figure, notched at the mouth, and furnilhed with both chives and pointals. In the circumference or outfide, flat, pointed, very (lightly marked with three notches, and furnilhed with pointals only. Chives: five; they are hair-like, very (hort, and united by the tips. Pointal: the feed-bud is egg-(haped, the (haft (lender, and the fummit, notched at the end, but the (hafts in thofe florets which produce only pointals, are furnilhed with two fummits to each. Seed-vessel: wanting. Seeds: folitary, egg-lhaped, flattilh, and unfurnifhed with] a feather. It is common in meadows and paftures, where it continues to flower from March till the latter end of September. The leaves are (lightly acid ; the roots poflefs a penetrating pungency, and are confiderably aflringent. A ftrong decoc- tion of them is an excellent medicine in fcorbutic complaints, but the ufe of it mull be continued for a confiderable length of time before its clfedls will appear. T 2 DAIS Y.
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