Excerpt from A Complete Dictionary of the Whole Materia Medica, Vol. 1 of 2: Containing an Experimental History of Every Natural and Artificial Substance Made Use of in Medicine Plants which bear drying, are commonly hung in a warm airy fplace, defended from the fun. The colours 0 herbs and flowers are for the moft part changed or deflroyed, in drying, by the fun's beams; but that their medicinal virtue fuffers a like diminution, does not appear. Thus much is certain, that a heat of culinary fire, equal to that of the fun in fummer, does them no injury in either refpeci: and that both flowers and leaves, when thus baflily dried by fire, preferve the livelinefs of their colour, and their fmell and taf'ce, more perfectly than' by] flow 'exficcarion. The leaves of moderately juicy plants are reduced, by drying, to about one, fourth of their Origihal weight. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.