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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    cle of a grcenifh or pale hue furrounding tha pith. This is the Gorona before meBtion- cd, and contains the full virtue gf the The tafte of this root differs from the other much more than the colour or form : .it is highly aromatic, and really agreeable. It is not without the foetid hogOe of the other j but the aromatic flavour overcomes it. 1 This is the root, and this only, which fhould be gathered for medicinal ufe, and it is indeed a very valuable and noble medi¬ cine. A phylician of diftinguiflied abili¬ ties, one of the cenfors of the college, has told me, that in a late fearch they found this true Valerian Root at one, and only one jfhop in London : the powder of it was of an olive brown, and the fceM arothatic and agreeable; at other places, the powder was of a yelloWifli brown, and the fmell offen-« five. This true kind is liable, like the falfe, to have thofe runners mixed among the real fibres, and they fhould be feparated : it alfo will fliew when the plant has been in ftalk at the time of its being gathered j and in that ftate fhould be rejedled; 'Tis only' in pcrfedlion when it is preparing for fhooting up