The great importance and proper method of cultivating and curing rhubarb in Britain, for medicinal uses : with an appendix / By Sir William Fordyce.

  • Fordyce, William, Sir, 1724-1792.
Date:
1792
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Credit: The great importance and proper method of cultivating and curing rhubarb in Britain, for medicinal uses : with an appendix / By Sir William Fordyce. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    an article of commerce in our own Iflancf* and not, as before, merely a matter of curio- fi ty. The Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, had offered a premium to the perfon who fhould, in a fatisfaCtory man¬ ner, defcribe the procefs of curing it. But the offer was confined to South Britain. I ufed the freedom, however, to affure Sir Alexander, that the liberality of Englifh- men would not permit them to fuffcr an objedl of fuch general importance, to be purfued fuccefsfully in another part of the Ifland, without fome mark of their appro¬ bation \ and I undertook to lay his memo- rial on this fubjedt before the Society. On confidering it, they very readily got over the obftacle of form, and voted him the Gold Medal, which I had the pleafure of trans¬ mitting to him. Whence