Virtues of British herbs : With their history, and figures, and an account of the diseases they will cure ... / By John Hill.

  • Hill, John, 1714?-1775.
Date:
1772
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Credit: Virtues of British herbs : With their history, and figures, and an account of the diseases they will cure ... / By John Hill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    t I°3 ] and is of a ruddy brown ; brittle, dry, and branchy toward the top. The Leaves are rugged on the furface, of a coarfe dead green, and a little dented about the edges. The Flowers are of a dull yellow, and {land in a clofe tuft, at the tops on the ftalks. They blow in Auguft. The Leaves, when bruifed,fend forth a quick, and aromatic fcent: and to the tafte they are bit- terifh, with fome fharpnefs. Such tafte and flavour cannot but befpeak fome medicinal qualities; nor do the accounts which authors have given of its virtues, contradidl them: but they fhould be more afcertained. The old Tragus, (commonly very faithful) recommends it to promote the menfes: and indeed an innocent medicine of that kind is fo defirable ; and the obvious qualities of this plant are fo promifing, that I fhould recommend a very weak tea of it for careful trial. This might be watched with atten-