The great importance and proper method of cultivating and curing rhubarb in Britain, for medicinal uses : with an appendix.

  • Fordyce, William, Sir, 1724-1792.
Date:
1792
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    entangling. Thus fecured, let them be hung up in the form of a feftoon, without delay, in the warm air of a Kitchen or Laundry, till the fuperfluous moilture is exhaled, in order to prevent their beco- ming mouldy, or any way mufty. They may he afterwards fufficiently dried at more leilure, then wrapt feparately in cot- ton, and put into a bottle with a wide mouth. r Let it be obferved here, by the way, that the tap-roots, next to the roots them- felves, make excellent tinctures : of them too, as well as the parings dried and pow- dered, I have frequently given half an ounce, with double the quantity of Cream of Tartar, to my horfes each day, on finding the cruft of their blood deeply tinged with bile, and that for three or four days running. Of fuch blood every D2 race-