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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    under side: it grows on the mountains and high hills in the state of New-Jersey, and in many other parts of the United States. MEDICAL VIRTUES. The medical effects of this shrub depends en tirely on its astringent and tonic powers. It is used with success in various fluids arising from debi- lity, menorrhagia, fluor albus, cystirrhcca, diabetes, ennuresis, diarrhoea, dysentery, ^c. It has also been found beneficial in consumptive complaints, particularly in ulcerations of the kidneys and bladder. PREPARATION. After the leaves are dry, pulverize them and keep the powder in a bottle well corked. In the above complaints the patient may take a tea-spoon- ful of the powder, in honey or molasses, four times a day. The illustrious professor, Doctor Hallar, recom- mends the acid liquor distilled from the herb, as an effectual remedy in gravelly complaints. He says, that this acid doubly distilled, taken from half a gill to a gill four times a day, attacks the caculi, formed in the human body, reduces them to small pieces, and softens those that cannot be split or broken. Of one hundred and fifty of these ca- culi, which we submitted to this test, there was not one but what was acted upon by this acid liquor.