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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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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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    ■ r io4 ] attention in its effects; and made ftronger when it is found that might be borne. The caution is needful; for Cordus, a care¬ ful obferver, fays the herb is fo acrid and hot as to make the mouth fore. Some ftrength is required in fuch a medicine; and perhaps this has it. Where there is great efficacy, as in fteel medicines, there is alfo great power of mifchief: and we fhould wifh to have many different things, to fuperfede their ufe. Diofcorides gives great praife to Baccharis j attributing to it warm and attenuating qualities. It would be worth a very careful attention if it were poffible we could by any means be fure this was the Baccharis he meant: but unhappily there is here that great confufion before lament¬ ed about the names of fome of the plants, of which he had experience. X » We have been falling into the fame mifchief now $