The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.
Time is an herb that cures all Diseases.
APOTHECARY, n. The physician's accomplice, undertaker's benefactor and grave worm's provider
In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?
Any British household with a scrap of land has always grown herbs for the kitchen. From the superb monastic herb gardens down to the humblest cottage, a supply of fresh herbs would have been considered essential.
Throw out opium ... throw out wine ... If the whole materia medica, as now used, could be sunk at the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes.
Every green herb, from the lotus to the darnel, is rich with delicate aids to help incurious man.
