The book of herbs : giving descriptions of medical plants, and directions for gathering and preserving them, with a full account of their properties and doses : the whole written for family use / by John B. Newman.

  • Newman, John B.
Date:
1847
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Credit: The book of herbs : giving descriptions of medical plants, and directions for gathering and preserving them, with a full account of their properties and doses : the whole written for family use / by John B. Newman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    deriving- benefit from them : such as the proper time of collecting- the separate parts, and preserv- ing them when, collected. Although separate di- rections will be given under each head, it is well to mention, as a general rule, that medical roots should be taken up in the fall, win it the leaves beg-in to decay, or else in early spring, before they make their appearance. Herbs should be gathered while flowering-, and immediately dried, and kept, if possible, in tin boxes. The doses are in all cases intended for adults, and when given to children, should be diminished in proportion to their ages; a child of ten or eleven years old, for instance, taking but half the quantity mentioned. Remedies are given for poisoning by vegetables, and general directions for avoiding noxious plants, and not mis- taking them for others. The last part contains remarks on collecting medicinal herbs, and the propriety of cultivating such gardens as Shen- stone describes at the head of this article.