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• The compleat herbal of physical plants : Containing all such English and foreign herbs, shrubs and trees, as are used in physick and surgery. And to the Vertues that are now in use, is added one Receipt or more, of some Learned Physician. The Doses or Quantities of such as are prescribed by the London-Physicians, and others, are proportioned. Also Directions for making Compound-Waters, Syrups Simple and Compound; Electuaries, Pills, Powders, and other sorts of Medicines. Moreover. The Gums, Balsams, Oils, Juices, and the like, which are sold by Apothecaries and Druggists, are added to this Herbal; and their Virtues and Uses are fully described. The second edition, with the addition of many physical herbs, and their vertues. By John Pechey, of the College of Physicians in London
  by: Pechey, John
  Published: (1707)
• A compendious herbal. Or the names of most of the physical herbs, trees, and fruits. In English and Welch
  by: Roderick, John
  Published: (1737)
• Culpeper's English physician; and complete herbal : To which are now first added upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult properties, physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind. To which are annexed, rules for compounding medicine according to the true system of nature: forming a complete family dispensatory, and natural system of physic. Beautified and enriched with engravings of upwards of four hundred and fifty different plants, and a set of anatomical figures. Illustrated with notes and observations, critical and explanatory. By E. Sibly, M.D. Fellow of the Harmonic Philosophical Society at Paris; author of the Complete illustration of astrology
  by: Culpeper, Nicholas
  Published: (1793)
• Virtues of British herbs : With their history, and figures, and an account of the diseases they will cure; containing, cures-of consumptions by coltsfoot tea; of hectic fevers by the ... of colics by leaves of chamomile; of agues by its flowers. And a case, of the hooping cough, cured by a tea of the fresh root of elecampane. Cures-of the gravel by a tea of golden-rod; of the scurvy by ...; of the piles by yarrow; an account of the eminent virtues of petasite root in pestilential and all other fevers, and the plague itself: of tanzy for the worms; consound as a vulnerary; and an instance of a stomach-complaint cured by a tea of the flowers of sweet feverfew. By John Hill, M.D. member of the Imperial Academy
  by: Hill, John
  Published: (1772)
• Virtues of British Herbs. With the history, description, and figures of the several kinds; an account of the diseases they will cure: the method of giving them; and management of the patients in each disease : Containing the cures of consumptions by coltsfoot tea, hectic fevers by the daisy, colics by leaves of chamomile, and agues by its flowers. A recommendation of the Bidens cernua to supply the place of the Ceylon Acmella, so celebrated in the gravel; but not to be had with us. And a case, with all its cicumstances and symptoms, of the hooping-cough, cured by a tea of the fresh root of elecampane. The whole illustrating that important truth, that the plants of our own country will cure all its diseases. To which are added, cautions against the two Othonnas, destructive of sheep. A work intended to be useful to the sick, and to their friends; to private families; and to the charitable, who would help their neighbours. By John Hill, M.D. member of the Imperial Academy
  by: Hill, John
  Published: (1770)