A new medicinal, economical, and domestic herbal: containing a familiar and accurate description of upwards of six hundred British herbs, shrubs, trees, etc. together with some of themost esteemed ... exotic plants ... / The whole compiled and selected from the works of Linnaeus, Bechstein, Withering, Dambourney, Barthollet, etc.

Date:
1808
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Credit: A new medicinal, economical, and domestic herbal: containing a familiar and accurate description of upwards of six hundred British herbs, shrubs, trees, etc. together with some of themost esteemed ... exotic plants ... / The whole compiled and selected from the works of Linnaeus, Bechstein, Withering, Dambourney, Barthollet, etc. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A N E W MEDICINAL, HERBAL. j^_DDEPc’s TONGUE.~-This small plant hath but one lenj, which grows with the stalk about four inches above ground, of an oval shape and a fine bright green colour; it is thick and soft, and without ribs or veins. I'he stalk, which supports the leaf, rises from a root composed of small strings or fibres, and seldom gro ws above four inches high. The spike of seeds reaches nearly the same height above it, and the tongue or seed vessel is notched on each side. The whole plant lies buried among the grass. Time of gathering is in April and May, as it dies soon after that time, and is no more seen till the ensuing spring. Medicinal Virtues.—It is a cooling herb; an ointment is mad^ from it which is generally allowed to be useful for wounds, and other outward inflammations. To form this ointment the leave? are chopped in pieces, four pounds are put into three pounds of suet, and a pint of sweet oil, melted together till the herb leaves are a little crisped, the ointment is then strained off', and ready for use. Some give the juice of the plant, or the powder of the dried leaves, for inward wounds and bleedings ; and an infusion of the plant is said to be useful for inflamed or watery eyes. AGH1MONY, (Common.)—Is an indigenous plant, which grows on hedge banks and by road sides, it grows from one to two feet high, the leaves are winged, hairy, of a pale green and notched or indented round the edges : the flowers are yellow and small, growing from the stalk which is single, round, and strong; the seed vessels which succeed the flowers are rough and wiU adhere to clothes, &c. Time of gathering and flowering is in July and August, and the seeds are ripe shortly after. Medicinal Virtues.—The leaves of this herb are said to strength- en the tone of the viscera, or bowels ; (a decoction being made them with wine) also in scorbutic and other disorders arising £rom weakness and debility.—Digested in -a hey, A Brim on y aTords B