Volume 1

Virtues of British herbs. With the history, description, and figures of the several kinds : an account of the diseases they will cure the family methods of giving them and the management of the patients in each disease ... [Nos. 1[-3] / by John Hill.

  • Hill, John, 1714?-1775.
Date:
1771-1772
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Credit: Virtues of British herbs. With the history, description, and figures of the several kinds : an account of the diseases they will cure the family methods of giving them and the management of the patients in each disease ... [Nos. 1[-3] / by John Hill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Lungwort is equally the Englifh Name of ,. a kind of Hawkweed, of a fort of Mofs, and of a Plant approaching to the nature of Hound’s- tongue: now when an Herb is directed under that Name, no one can tell which of all thefe ismeant. In Latin their Names are as different as their Nature; and in ufing thofe, there can be no miftake. A thoufand inftances of like kind might be produced : but one is as good as a thoufand. It will be happy, if, by the fame means, the knowledge of Plants alfo become more general. The ftudy of them is pleafant ; and the exercife of it healthful. He who feeks the Herb for his cure ; will often find it half effected by the walk: and when he is acquainted with the ufeful kinds, he may be more peoples, befide his own, Phyfician. — oad This knowledge is not to be fought in the. old Herbals; they contain but a {mall part of