The New family herbal and Botanic Physician

- The government of Herbs by the sun, moon, and planets, has been exploded by modern science; and is now regarded by persons of ordinary capacity to be absurd in the extreme. He who would now connect Astrology with Botany would stultify himself, and hold himself up to public contempt. Botanical knowledge has been greatly augmented of late years, and some medical men and Herbalists have very ably written upon it. The properties of Herbs, by scientific study, and by Medical experience, are now better understood than they were in the days of Culpeper, and others. While, therefore, the Botanic system of Medicine is making rapid progress.