Virtues of British herbs. With their history, and figures, and an account of the diseases they will cure; containing, cures-of consumptions by coltsfoot tea; of hectic fevers by the ... of colics by leaves of chamomile; of agues by its flowers. And a case, of the hooping cough, cured by a tea of the fresh root of elecampane. Cures-of the gravel by a tea of golden-rod; of the scurvy by ...; of the piles by yarrow; an account of the eminent virtues of petasite root in pestilential and all other fevers, and the plague itself: of tanzy for the worms; consound as a vulnerary; and an instance of a stomach-complaint cured by a tea of the flowers of sweet feverfew. By John Hill, M.D. member of the Imperial Academy

People / Organizations

• John Hill (Author)
• John Nourse ("printed for")

Imprint

London : Printed for R. Baldwin, J. Ridley; J. Nourse; Dilly; T. Becket; P. Elmsly; J. Campbell; Millan; Robson; Hookham; Donaldson; Gardner; Bladon; Hooyer; Wheble, and Pearce, M.DCC.LXXII. [1772]

Publication year

1772

ESTC No.

T50937

Grub Street ID

278475

Description

[2],v-x,[1],12-106,[4],50,[2]p.,plates ; 8°.

Note

P.vii is misnumbered vi

In three parts

Nos.1-2 are reissues of the 4th edition, 1771

No.3 has a separate half-title, and titlepage with an imprint and date reading: 'London: printed for the author, and sold by R. Baldwin; J. Ridley; .. M.DCC.LXXII

Also issued as part of: 'Medical and botanical tracts', London, 1772.