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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    1 [ 21 '] bafin of this fhould be drank warm three times 9 a day. ' ‘ 7 ** The patient fhould alfo have fome of the * ' ' n -* * Leaves dried and cut fmall, and fmoke them as tobacco. This is a practice as old as the % * time of the Romans; and prefent experience fhews it right, and excellent. Few things will do fo much toward curing a Confumption, as Coltsfoot, ufed conflantly * thefe two ways. Here let us flop a moment, and adore the goodnefs of the Divine Providence \ which makes the beft things the moft common! The Seg- groms, which can do only mifchief, are found but in a few places : this, fo full of excellence, grows at our doors \ and we tread it every where under our feet, ?