The Indian vegetable family instructer: : containing the names and descriptions of all the most useful herbs and plants that grow in this country, with their medicinal qualities annexed; also, a treatise on many of the lingering diseases to which mankind are subject, ... with a large list of recipes, which have been carefully selected from Indian prescriptions ... Designed for the use of families in the United States. / By Pierpont F. Bowker.

  • Bowker, Pierpont F.
Date:
1851
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The Indian vegetable family instructer: : containing the names and descriptions of all the most useful herbs and plants that grow in this country, with their medicinal qualities annexed; also, a treatise on many of the lingering diseases to which mankind are subject, ... with a large list of recipes, which have been carefully selected from Indian prescriptions ... Designed for the use of families in the United States. / By Pierpont F. Bowker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Hawk Weed 153 Hyssop 157 Herb True Love, or One Berry 177 Hemp 184 Horsetail 187 Indian Milkweed, sometimes called Bitterroot 67 Indian Umbil, called also Ladies' Slipper, Nervine, &c. 99 Inner bark of Hemlock 100 Indian Wormwood 192 Jill grow over the ground 6 Juniper Bush 7 Jacob’s Ladder 120 King’s Evil Weed 64 Loose-stripe or Willow Herb 9 Lavender Cotton 10 Lemon Balm 23 Lavender 26 Low Mallows 30 Lung Wort 74 Ladies’ Smock, or Cuckoo Flower 80 Ladies’ Thistle 165 Large Golden Thread 189 Master Worff 13 Mosses 14 Marigolds 15 Maidenhair 52 Meadow Fern 76 Marsh Mallows 96 Mullein 104 Mouse Ear, or Puddle Weed 109 Melilot, or Seneca Clover 110 Marsh Rosemary 116 Mountain Ash 117 'Meadow Saffron, Colchicum 127 Motherwort 129. May Weed 182 Moon Wort 190 • Noble Liverwort 47 Nail Wort, or Whitlow Grass 178 P