The American herbal - Tapa blanda

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1801 Excerpt: ...from fix to fiftsen grains. GINSENG. This it a fmj!l p'int growing in Canarb, Vermont, Virginia, and io-nc other par.s of America, The Ch ncfe cali the root a reftj;ati/c, and corroborant. Dr Wallis dallas it wiih the ftimuUnis; and Dr. Htaldr, with this antifpalmodicf. In China.aad Tartary they diink an infuftjn of V a O leavü Ii Common G fue, 2, Glove Glue, 3. Parchment Glue. But tbc two lait are more properly called fize. Glue it made of the fkini of anira 1. as oxen, com, alves, fhcep, &c. by fteeping them two or three days in water, waffling them clean, boiling them to the confidence of a thick jeilv, íiraihing of it whUft watm, and when freed from impurities and coaled.it is boiled a. gain, turned into moulds, which forrr:» ¡t into cake», ar.d afterwardi it it taken out, dried in the wind, in a fo t of net work, and at laft. it is lining up to complete the drying. It is u!od by carpenters, joiners, cjo.net такers, &c. but not in medicine. There are other kinds of glue, which I fliall not attempt to defcribe in this place. G О A T. Copra, or Caper? Their flcfh is very nouriflvng, and their'nv'k is '.he mod nutritious of all kinds, women's excepte'. Goat's whey is called aperient, ab!lcr¿;nt, alte in. n.-, and laxative. It is gensrally prescribed before ait orner wheyt. Vid, Milk. G О A T's RUE. Galega, Ruta Caprina, or Capraria, It is the galega officinalis of Lin. It is a nativo of Spain and Italy, ufed at food, but not 3.1 medicine. It is cultivated in America, if I miilake not. GOLD. Aunt m. It is the heavier! of all metalf, being, nineteen times fpecifically l.eavier than water. It ia not uied in medicine in the prcfent age. GOLD THREAD. Filum Aurum. it is a frr.all viney plant, wh...