On the virtues of sage, in lenthening human life. With rules to attain old age in health and cheerfulness / [John Hill].

  • Hill, John, 1714?-1775
Date:
[1763]
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Credit: On the virtues of sage, in lenthening human life. With rules to attain old age in health and cheerfulness / [John Hill]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    dry, and rugged places; for with me the plants of the fame fpecies that have grown on a dry gravelly foil, have far higher vir¬ tues than fuch as have taken their nouriih- ment from a moid pure mould. Mine is a garden into which no manure is admitted, becaufe I would fee every thing in a date of nature : how much inferior then to the word: of mine, muft be the Sage which is commonly raifed with dung in kitchen gar¬ dens ? Of the heft kind of Sage growing in the foil mod favourable to its virtues, I tried with care, not the leaves only, but the roots and feeds. The leaves are bed for ufe a little before the flower dalks rife: this is in May. They were therefore right who told our ancedors to eat them at that feafon. Thofe who would ufe them condantly, fliould dry them at that time for the red of the year. I gave them in large dofes, and at¬ tended to their operations carerully. They are lightly cordial, drengthening, and Ao- machic. There are in them more virtues than