Observations and experiments on the Humulus lupulus of Linnaeus : with an account of its use in gout, and other diseases, with cases / by A. Freake.

  • Freake, A.
Date:
1806
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Credit: Observations and experiments on the Humulus lupulus of Linnaeus : with an account of its use in gout, and other diseases, with cases / by A. Freake. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I accordingly did, but before the process was finished, the ship on which he was to embark, unexpectedly sailed, and he was obliged to de- part without the medicine. This circumstance I consider fortunate, for otherwise, in all proba- bility, I should not have made trial of the Lupulus ; but having the preparation complete, after due examination of what different authors had written respecting it, I determined to employ it whenever a fair opportunity should occur, being convinced from what I had read, as well as from its known use in the preparation of malt liquors, that a careful administration of it could not injure my patients, even though it should not answer my expectations of affording them relief. „ The Humulus Lupulus, says Chambers, ap- *' pears to have been brought into this country from the Netherlands, in the year 1524. It is first mentioned in the English statute book 1552, viz. in the fifth and sixth of Edward B 2