"Now the doctors had it all their own way; and to work they went in earnest, and they gave the poor professor divers and sundry medicines, as prescribed by the ancients and moderns, from Hippocrates to Feuchtersleben, as below, viz.:-
1. Hellebore, to wit -
Hellebore of Aeta.
Hellebore of Galatia.
Hellebore of Sicily.
And all other Hellebores, after the method of
the Helleborizing Helleboreists of the
Helleboric era. But that would not do.
Bumpsterhausen's blue follicles would not
stir an inch out of his encephalo digital
region.
"He then banteringly advised them to import six shiploads of hellebore of the very best quality, and on its arrival distribute it among the citizens, at least seven pounds per head, but to the senators double that quantity, as they were bound to have an extra supply of sense." - prologue to first edition of 'The Robbers' (Die Räuber), Friederich Schiller, 1781. Translator unknown.
Here's a hellebore:
"Now the doctors had it all their own way; and to work they went in earnest, and they gave the poor professor divers and sundry medicines, as prescribed by the ancients and moderns, from Hippocrates to Feuchtersleben, as below, viz.:-
1. Hellebore, to wit -
Hellebore of Aeta.
Hellebore of Galatia.
Hellebore of Sicily.
And all other Hellebores, after the method of
the Helleborizing Helleboreists of the
Helleboric era. But that would not do.
Bumpsterhausen's blue follicles would not
stir an inch out of his encephalo digital
region.
_from Water Babies - Charles Kingsley, 1937
I love hellebores.
"He then banteringly advised them to import six shiploads of hellebore of the very best quality, and on its arrival distribute it among the citizens, at least seven pounds per head, but to the senators double that quantity, as they were bound to have an extra supply of sense."
- prologue to first edition of 'The Robbers' (Die Räuber), Friederich Schiller, 1781. Translator unknown.