INTRODUCTION. 



Containing general rules for the gathering 

 and preserving herbs, roots, barks, sleds, and 

 flowers ; together with the me1hods of 

 making such preparations from them, as may 

 best retain their virtues, or be moit usefui 

 jo be kept in families 



CHAP. I 



The design and purpose of this work, and the me- 

 thod observed in it. 



npHE intent of the author in publishing this 

 JL book, is to inform those who live in the 

 country, and are desirous of being useful to 

 their families 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 

 they may be able to supply this necessary assis- 

 tance, in places where apothecaries a;c not at hand ; 

 and that they may be able also to do it without 

 putting themselves to the expense of medicines 

 of price, when the common herbs, that mav be 



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