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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    Blossom: a Tingle petal, having a tube, which is ftiorter than the cup, and a flat border, divided into four or five unequal parts; the uppermoil fegment being largeft, and the lowermoft fmalleft. Chives: two; they are thinner at the bafe than towards the top, and terminated by oblong tips. Pointal: the feed-bud is flattened, the fhaft thread- fhaped,, as long as the chives, and crowned with a Ample fummit. SeeO-vessel: an invetfely heart-fhaped capfule, flattened at the point, and divided internally into two cells. Seeds: numerous, and roundifh. It grows plentifully in Ihallow ftreams, and flowers in June. The juice of Brooklime taken in the fpring is an excellent antifcorbutic, and fweetner of the blood and juices. It may either be taken alone or mixed with the juice of water-crefs, or any other plant whofe virtues are fimilar. An infufion of the plant in boiling water provokes urine, confequently is ferviceable in the jaundice, dropfy, &c. The leaves bruifed and applied to green wounds foon heal them ; made into a poultice and applied to the part they give eafe in the piles. BROOM. Spartium Scoparium, 17. 4. Roots: long, woody, and very rough. Stem: (hrubby, and four or five feet high. It is furnifhed with a profufion of young fhoots, which are angular, and of a green colour, but the bark on the main trunk is of a pale brown. Leaves : fmal], oblong, hairy on the edges, and produced by threes. Flowers : large and very numerous, they almoft cover the young (hoots their whole length, and are of a beautiful gold yellow colour. Flower-cup: formed of a Angle leaf, which is heart- fhaped, but tubular, and coloured. The upper margin is extremely fhort, the lower one divided into two or three fmall teeth. Blossom : butterfly-fhaped, and confifts of five petals, the flandard or uppermoft of which is large, inverfely heart-fhaped, and reflefted. The wings, or fide petals, oblong, fhorter than I 2 the
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