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The present manual of our native herbal simples seeks rather to justify their uses on the sound basis of accurate chemical analysis, and precise elementary research. Hitherto medicinal herbs have come down to us from early times as possessing only a traditional value, and as exercising merely empirical effects. Their selection has been commended solely by a shrewd discernment, and by the practice of successive centuries. But to day a closer analysis in the ...
W.T. Fernie a notable British herbalist of the past century can be credited with a complete and referable compendium on herbal extracts. He is referred by one and all who wishes to venture into the world of time tested and effective herbal simples. His work has been adapted because of its most focused and complete, though biased to British Topography. The book takes into account British native Herbal Simples and seeks rather to justify their uses on the sound ...
In the following pages of the book Medicinal Plants and Plant-based medicines with their medicinal uses are reviewed alphabetically; whilst, to ensure accuracy, the genus and species of each plant are particularised. Most of these herbs may be gathered fresh in their proper season by persons who have acquired a knowledge of their parts, and who live in districts where such plants are to be found growing; and to other persons who inhabit towns, or who have no ...