Shetland there are several native popular medicines. Scurvy grass, for instance, is used in cutaneous complaints, butter-milk in dropsy, the shells of whelks calcined and pounded for dyspepsia, and a variety of steatite named in the country kleber for... Liberty Hall, Oxon - Pàgina 141per William Winwood Reade - 1860Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| Sir David Brewster, Robert Jameson - 1822 - 458 pàgines
...medicines. Scurvy grass, for instance, is used in cutaneous complaints, butter-milk in dropsy, the shells of whelks calcined and pounded for dyspepsia, and a variety of steatite named in the country kleber, for excoriations. But the mode of letting blocd, known from time... | |
| Samuel Hibbert - 1822 - 670 pàgines
...medicines. Scurvy grass, for instance, is used in cutaneous complaints, butter-milk in dropsy, the shells of whelks calcined and pounded for dyspepsia, and a variety of steatite named in the country kleber, for excoriations. But the mode of letting blood, known from time... | |
| Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 798 pàgines
...medicines. Scurvy grass, for instance, is used in cutaneous complaints, butter-milk in dropsy, the shells of whelks calcined and pounded for dyspepsia, and a variety of steatite named in the country kleber for excoriations. But the mode of letting blood, known from time... | |
| 1830 - 530 pàgines
...remedies. Scurvy grass, for instance, is used in cutaneous complaints ; buttermilk in dropsy ; the shells of whelks calcined and pounded, for dyspepsia; and a variety of steatite, named in the country, kkber, for excoriations. But the mode for letting blood, known from... | |
| 1860 - 498 pàgines
...and that of deaths, 11,703. MEDICINES OF THE SHETLANDERS. — Their popular recipes are scurvygrass for cutaneous complaints, buttermilk for dropsy, shells...calcined and pounded for dyspepsia, and a variety of steatite for excoriations. — London Lancet, July, 1860. 282 Editorial Department. [July, EDITORIAL... | |
| 1860 - 556 pàgines
...that of deaths, 11,703. MEDICINES OF тнк SHETLANDERS.— Their popular recipes are scurvy -grasa for cutaneous complaints, butter-milk for dropsy, shells of whelks calcined and pounded for dy<pepsia, and a variety of steatite for excoriations. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY JAMES HERALD, 24 ANN... | |
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