INTRODUCTION. 



Containing general rules for the GATUEnisa 



AND PRESERVING HERBS^ ROOTS, BARKS, SEEDS, 

 AND FLOWERS ; TOGETHER WITH THE SIETHODS 

 OF MA.KING SUCH PREPARATIONS FROM THEM, AS 

 MAY BEST RETAIN THEIR VIRTUES, OR BE MOS» 

 USEFUL TO BE KEPT IN FAMILIES* 



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TJie dcsis;n andpurpose of this work, and the mc^ 



thod observed in it. 



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HE inient of the author Id publishing this 

 book, is to inform those who live in the 

 country, and are desirous oi being useful to 

 their familins and friends, or charitable to the 

 poor in the relief of their disorders, of the virtues 

 of those plants which grow wild about them : that 



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the/ may be able to supply this necessary 

 tance, in places where apothecaries arc not at hand ; 

 and that they may be able also to do it without 

 putting" themselves to the cxpenre of medicines 

 of price, when the common herbs, thai may be 



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