[ Chinese Raddish Oil ]
Date: Recorded after June 1808.
Source:
Manuscript Notebook of Dr. William James Almon
Institution: Nova Scotia Archives
| Source Origin: Almon Family Fonds
| Reference: MG 1 / Microfilm Reel 10,045
Description of the benefits of the hardy and abundantly seeding Chinese radish in treating rheumatism and pulmonary afflictions, p. 102. Transcribed from the Literary and Fashionable Magazine of June 1808.
Chinese
raddish Oil
from
Literary
and fashionable
Magazine
IN
June 1808
The Chinese radish (rasphanus sinensis) is
preferable to any kind known, not only for culin-
ary purposes, and giving light but also in Medicine
From the experiments made lately by Dr. Francis
de [Heric--], it is extremely useful in Rhuma-
-tic & pulmonary affections, and has [been]
employed with much success in convulsive
coughs -- it is not liable to {...} spoil by keepering
like other oils _ the plant is not injured by
the strongest frosts _ in May & June the
Seed is gathered which is very abundant _
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