A new and complete American medical family herbal : wherein, is displayed the true properties and medical virtues of the plants, indigenous to the United States of America : together with Lewis' secret remedy, newly discovered, which has been found infallible in the cure of that dreadful disease hydrophobia, produced by the bite of a mad dog ... / by Samuel Henry ... ; with an appendix, of many choice medical secrets, never made known to the world before.

  • Henry, Samuel.
Date:
1814
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Credit: A new and complete American medical family herbal : wherein, is displayed the true properties and medical virtues of the plants, indigenous to the United States of America : together with Lewis' secret remedy, newly discovered, which has been found infallible in the cure of that dreadful disease hydrophobia, produced by the bite of a mad dog ... / by Samuel Henry ... ; with an appendix, of many choice medical secrets, never made known to the world before. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ANGELICA WILD, TEE GREATER. ANGELICA SYLYESTRIS. DESCRIPTION. This plant grows about four feet high, hollow stem, several leaves pinnated, pinnse, serrate, and ending with an odd one; flowers white, in large umbels, the general involucrum wanting; the root is biennial, long and thick, hung with many fibres. HISTORY. It grows in marshes, and by the sides of wet meadows ; the seed ripens in October. MEDICAL VIRTUES. The root is an excellent aromatic, carminative, emmenagogue. discutient, and sialagogue; and