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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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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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    [ 23 ¥ We have in this, and the fucceeding Plant, a ftriking inftance of the value of Latin names. @thenui or Cineraria, belongs to both thefe ; and each has, under thefe names, a juft diftinction by its fecond term ; the one by Integrifolia, and the other by Paluftris. The name Othonna be- longs to no Britifh Plant befide thefe two ; and will be underftood, not only here, but in all nations: Whereas the Term Seggrom, which is diftinétly and truly the name of thefe Plants, is in our language applied alfo to the common -Ragwort, ae Herb of our Paftures, and to | Groundfell, a Weed of our Gardens: and, to en- creafe the confufion, it is, in common fpeaking, not given to either of thefe two ; for cuftom calls one of thefe Ragwort, and the other Fleabane. Many words would be needful to explain thefe equivocal expreffions, if ufed in directing the Plants for Medicine; and perhaps, after all, at would not be done well: but the Latin name removes all doubt at once: it belongs to nothing _ elfe, and it is known univerfally nor will any