Hool, 1922: Common Plants and their Uses in Medicine.

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Were mankind as ready and willing to investigate, comprehend, appreciate, and acknowledge, as they are to doubt, disbelieve, condemn, and repudiate, there would be more truth and harmony in the affairs of life. - R. L. Hool under Sea Holly.

Also check out Hool's other book on this site, Health from British Wild Herbs.

Title page.
Publishers' Note to Readers.

Contents.

Biography of R. L. Hool
Section I.

Rambles of a Botanist from January to October

Common Plants and their Uses (illustrated)

• Common Barberry
• Great Burdock
• Bur-Marigold
• Chickweed
• Coltsfoot
• Marsh Gentian
• Horehound
• Common Hyssop
• Lobelia
• Purple Loosestrife
• Maple Tree
• Meadowsweet
• Mistletoe
• Common or Broad-Leaved Plantain
• Sea Holly
• Shepherd's Purse
• Great Water Dock
• Yarrow

Notes on the Cultivation of Herbs

Section II.

Diseases and their Treatment

• Fevers—(1) Typhoid Fever
• Fevers—(2) Scarlet Fever
• The Lungs, Their Diseases and their Causes
• The Liver
• Stomach and Bowels
• Venereal Diseases
• Influenza

Sundry items

• New Treatment for Wounds
• Multiple Sclerosis
• Vegetable Dyes
• Poison Remedies
• Alcoholic Liquors v. Barley Water
• Nettles

Correspondence

• Sore Eyes.
• Swollen Feet, &c.
• Thin Hair.
• Scarlet Fever.
• No. 6 Powder.
• Neuritis.
• Constipation.
• Fistula.
• Dysentery.
• Cancer Causation and Cure.
• Camomile.
• Acid Tincture of Lobelia.
• Gathered Finger.
• Hernia or Rupture Treatment.
• Remedy for Goitre.
• Enlarged Prostate.

Questions and Replies

NAMH

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Common Plants and their Uses in Medicine was written by Richard Lawrence Hool, F.N.A.M.H., in 1922.