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HOREHOUND.— MARRUBIUM. 



Natural order, Verticillatce. A genus of the 

 Didynamia Gymnospermia class. 



" If the prophet had bid thee do some great 

 thing, wouldest thou not have done it ? how 

 much rather then, when he saith to thee, 

 Wash, and be clean ? " 



Naaman felt the justice of his servant's 

 rebuke, bathed, and recovered his flesh. 



Horehound has been recommended to us 

 by medical writers of all ages and countries, 

 as a safe and simple remedy for complaints as 

 dangerous to our existence as the leprosy 

 was to the Syrian captain' s. Like him we 

 answer, that we have skilful physicians, and 

 drugs collected from the most distant quarters 

 of the globe ; shall we not apply to them for 

 cure, rather than to an herb that bears affinity 

 to the nettle ? 



This medicinal plant is indigenous to most 

 parts of Europe, as well as to Britain ; and, 

 like many other herbs, the nearer it grows 



