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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    *5 come bright red berries, something similar to cur- rants, and are of a bitter sweet taste. HISTORY. This climbing shrub grows common in low grounds and marshes. MEDICAL VIRTUES. The dulcamara is a powerful and useful medi- cine : it increases all the secretions and excretions, and excites the heart and arteries ; and is also be- neficial in all cutaneous affections, rheumatism, scirrhous swellings, ill conditioned ulcers, scrophu- la, whites, jaundice, and obstructed menses. Can- cers of the breast have been cured by the applica- tion of the juice over the cancer, and the green leaves applied over the breast. The celebrated professor Doctor Hallar, by this application, perfected a cure of the cancer, on the breast of a lady of seventy years of age. PREPARATION. Boil half a pound of the bark of the bitter sweet in eight quarts of spring water, to the consumption of one gallon : a gill to be taken three times a day : it is also good in fevers and sical swellings. The patient ought to take a dose of sal glauber once a week, while using the medicine,