The virtues of wild valerian in nervous disorders ... With directions for gathering and preserving the root; and for chusing the right kind when it is bought dry. Shewing that the uncertainty of effect in this valuable medicine, is owing to adulteration or ill management / [John Hill].

  • Hill, John, 1714?-1775.
Date:
1772
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Credit: The virtues of wild valerian in nervous disorders ... With directions for gathering and preserving the root; and for chusing the right kind when it is bought dry. Shewing that the uncertainty of effect in this valuable medicine, is owing to adulteration or ill management / [John Hill]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    { t 7 ] for every dram of the other: andv as they are greatly inferior in their qualities, the phyfician is difappointed who depends on them. Not only the virtues; but the ftature, - colour, and whole afpedl of the plant are' altered by this watery nourifhment: and though in reality thefe are only varieties, - occafioned in the common courfe of nature, by the different foil; and feen in other herbs as well as this; yet they are fo confiderable in the prefent inftance, that Ray and others have given the heath or mountain Valerian, a diftinct place in their catalogues of plants; accounting it a really different fpecies from that growing by waters. In woods it affumes a form diftindl from both ; and properly is of a middle kind be¬ tween them. Its virtues are alfo of a middle degree ; inferior to the heath, and fuperior to thofe of the water Valerian, / I * The excellence of the firft of thefe kinds is fuch, that no other Ihould be ufed; and * there is enough of it for the demand : fo the gathering the wrong kind fhould be difcou- raged. The diftindtion is obvious, as will appear by the fucceeding characters : and as the term wild belongs equally to the wood and water kinds, as well as the true, per-'