The great importance and proper method of cultivating and curing rhubarb in Britain, for medicinal uses : with an appendix / By Sir William Fordyce.

  • Fordyce, William, Sir, 1724-1792.
Date:
1792
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Credit: The great importance and proper method of cultivating and curing rhubarb in Britain, for medicinal uses : with an appendix / By Sir William Fordyce. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    named, concur in rendering extraor^ dinary aids to digeftion neceflary. But what aids To natural, fafe, or efficacious, as Vegetable Bitters, as well as Vegetable Acids ? Convinced that the former are pectin liarly calculated, when properly combined with other ingredients, to fupply the defi¬ ciency of Bile, and of the Pancreatic Juice, I was led to bellow particular attention upon the culture of Rhubarb, after the lights I had received concerning it: and a fample of its roots, which grew in my own garden on Putney-heath, I took the liberty of exhibiting to the Society, en¬ couraged by a Certificate from the Drug- gifts in the City, that they had found it of fuperior goodnefs, as well as the Firft Englifh Specimen which they had feen of true marketable Rhubarb, or the Rheum Palmatum