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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    [ 8 ] haps it will be proper to diftingullh that hereafter, by the name Heath Valerian, ' As all the three are in reality only varie¬ ties, or different ftates of the fame fpecies of, plant, one general defeription will ferve for it, in all thofe ftates ; and after its form and charadlers are thus imderftood, it will be the eafier to explain the particular dif- tinftions under thofe three feveral appear¬ ances. CHAP. II. Defeription of the Plant, ♦ The root of wild Valerian is compofed of many long fibres ; joined to a fmall head. The ftalk is ereft, round, and hollow. The leaves ftand in pairs; and each is compofed alfo of many pairs of fmall leaves joined to a long rib, with an odd one at the end. The flowers are fmall and reddilli; and they ftand in large tufts at the top of the ftalk and branches. Each flower, as in the other Valerians, is formed of one piece; and is tubular at the bafe, fwelled out on one fide ; and cut-into five parts at the rim. It has no cup j and it is followed-^, by a Angle feed. This is the form and figure of the plants in whatever foil or fituation it grows: but the %