Copy 1, Volume 1

History of cultivated vegetables; comprising their botanical, medicinal, edible, and chemical qualities; natural history; and relation to arts, science, and commerce / By Henry Phillips.

  • Henry Phillips
Date:
1822
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: History of cultivated vegetables; comprising their botanical, medicinal, edible, and chemical qualities; natural history; and relation to arts, science, and commerce / By Henry Phillips. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    GINGER. ye by 3 by the effect 1t had on my stomach ; if it made me hiccup, the dose was too large. I found occasionally, that it produced ardor urine ; but this went off without any ill con- sequences whatever. I have not yet found it necessary to increase the dose; but I use rather a coarser powder than I did at first which mixes more easily with the milk, and probably produces rather more effect than the fine.” “The late Lord Rivers took ginger in large doses, for more than thirty years, and at eighty was an upright and healthy old man. “T have, since I used the ginger, had one fit of the gout ; but it was confined entirely to my extremities, and never assailed either my head, my loins, or my stomach, and lasted only seventeen or eighteen days; but the last fit I had before I took the ginger, affected my head, my stomach, and my loins, and lasted, with intervals, from the end of October to January.” * The roots preserved or candied are an ex- cellent stomachic, and comforting ; boiled in wine, with a little cummin seed, ginger eases the pain of the stomach, and causes sweat ; * Sinclair’s Code of Health, vol. 1. page 233.