 | 1806 - 616 pages
...ulcers, pains, and emaciationsj which resisted the use of mecury. See Jourti. de. Med. t. hvi, p. 478. Bruised and agitated with water it raises a lather like soap, which washes greasy spots out of deaths. — Withering. It has been used by mendicant Monks for washing their cloaths ; and Bergius... | |
 | William Withering, William MacGillivray - 1830 - 428 pages
...part : flowers erect, flesh-coloured or white. The whole plant is bitter. When bruised and ngitated in water, it raises a lather like soap, which washes greasy spots out of clothes. Perennial : flowers in August and September : grows in meadows and in shady placee. Engl. Bot. vol.... | |
 | William Baxter - 1834 - 348 pages
...Northamptonshire by ÜERARDE ; and recently near Liverpool, by Dr. BOSTOCE. t Whole plant bitter. Biuised and agitated with water, it raises a lather like soap, which washes spots out of clothes, (whence called Fuller' s-herb). A decoction of it, applied externally, cures... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1838 - 442 pages
...part ; flowers erect, flesh-colored or white. The whole plaut is bitter. When bruised and agitated in water, it raises a lather like soap, which washes greasy spots out of clothes. Perennial ; flowers in July, August ; grows by road-sides ; naturalized. SARRACE'NIA. Side-saddleFlower.... | |
 | Irvin Eller - 1841 - 450 pages
...August. Saponaria officinalis, common soap wort : cl. 10, ord. 2. In the hedges of Harby, about the town. The whole plant is bitter. Bruised and agitated with...which washes greasy spots out of clothes. A decoction from the leaves and roots is a powerful medicine used either internally or externally. July — Sept.... | |
 | Irvin Eller - 1841 - 458 pages
...August. Saponaria officinalis, common soap wort: cl. 10, ord. 2. In the hedges of Harby, about the town. The whole plant is bitter. Bruised and agitated with...which washes greasy spots out of clothes. A decoction from the leaves and roots is a powerful medicine used either internally or externally. July — Sept.... | |
 | William Withering - 1863 - 518 pages
...part : flowers erect, flesh-coloured or white. The whole plant is bitter. When bruised and agitated in water it raises a lather like soap, which washes greasy spots out of clothes. Perennial : flowers in August and September : grows in meadows and in shady places, but is not indigenous.... | |
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Bruised and agitated with water, it raises a lather like soap, which washes greasy spots out of clothes. 