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Title: Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure

Author: William Thomas Fernie

Release Date: September 22, 2006 [eBook #19352]

Language: English

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***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HERBAL SIMPLES APPROVED FOR MODERN
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Transcribed by Ruth Hart ruthhart@twilightoracle.com

Transcriber's notes:

While most of the book titles and non-English words are
italicized, not all of them are, and I have left the
non-italicized terms as is.

Page numbers have been placed in sqare brackets to facilitate
the use of the table of contents and the index.

HERBAL SIMPLES APPROVED FOR MODERN USES OF CURE

by

W. T. FERNIE, M.D.
Author of "Botanical Outlines," etc_

Second Edition.

"Medicine is mine; what herbs and _Simples_ grow
In fields and forests, all their powers I know."
DRYDEN.

Philadelphia:
Boericke & Tafel.
1897.

"Jamque aderat Phoebo ante alios dilectus lapis
Iasides: acri quondam cui captus amore
Ipse suas artes, sua munera, laetus Apollo
Augurium, citharamque dabat, celeresque sagittas
Ille ut _depositi_ proferret fata _clientis,_
Scire potestates herbarum, usumque medendi
Maluit, et mutas agitare inglorius artes."
VIRGIL, _AEnid_: Libr. xii. v. 391-8.

"And now lapis had appeared,
Blest leech! to Phoebus'-self endeared
Beyond all men below;
On whom the fond, indulgent God
His augury had fain bestowed,
His lyre-his sounding bow!
But he, the further to prolong
A fellow creature's span,
_The humbler art of Medicine chose,
The knowledge of each plant that grows,_
Plying a craft not known to song,
An unambitious man!"

[vii]

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.

It may happen that one or another enquirer taking up this book will
ask, to begin with, "What is a Herbal Simple?" The Eng