The Complete Herbalist; Or, The People Their Own Physicians by the Use of Nature's Remedies: And a New and Plain System of Hygienic PrinciplesThe Author, 1867 - 408 pages |
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Page 54 - Of three specimens from an inch and a quarter to an inch and a half in length...
Page 3 - The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth; and he that is wise will not abhor them.
Page 7 - LINAIRE, who had been educated at Oxford, and having travelled in Italy, and spent some time at the court of Florence, returned to England, and succeeded in founding medical professorships at Oxford and Cambridge, from which circumstance was laid the foundation of the London College of Physicians. Thus chemistry, after having been employed in various pharmaceutical processes, was applied to physiology, pathology and therapeutics. The chemical doctors were very wild and extravagant in advancing unnatural...
Page 220 - He gives to all life, and breath, and all things; and has made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation...
Page 236 - He knew that mankind in general required to be cheated, gulled, cajoled, even into doing that which is to benefit themselves. He did not, therefore, tell the sultan, who consulted him, to take exercise, but he said to him : 'Here is a ball, which I have stuffed with certain rare, costly, and precious medicinal herbs.
Page 83 - Hamamelis virginica grows in almost all sections of the United States, especially in damp woods, flowering from September to November, when the leaves are falling, and maturing the seeds the next Summer. The bark and leaves are the parts used in medicine ; they...
Page 229 - If, then, wine contains some nourishment, it must depend on the solid particles suspended in it Now, if you evaporate a glass of wine on a shallow plate, whatever solid matter it contains will be left dry upon the plate, and this will amount to about as much as may be laid on the extreme point of a penknife blade...
Page 178 - Description. — This plant has a herbaceous stem, about a foot in height, with acute, toothed leaves, and bright white flowers.
Page 54 - Chelidonium, from the Greek word Chelidon, which signifies a swallow; because they say, that if you put out the eyes of young swallows when they are in the nest, the old ones will recover their eyes again with this herb.
Page 213 - Take a leg of well-fed pork, just as cut up, beat it, and break the bone. Set it over a gentle fire, with three gallons of water, and simmer to one. Let half an ounce of mace, and the same of nutmegs, stew in it.