I would like to take a moment and remind anyone considering gathering any wild specimen that there are many poisonous plants and mushrooms in the wild. When I was about six years old I saw a hippie commune that had gotten poisoned by eating a soup made with some kind of weed that they mistook for wild onions. So be careful. She was a midwife of sort and about the only so-called doctor in that part of the country during the Civil War. Here are some of the diseases that the book lists and the herbal remedies that it suggests.
Treatment calls for a mixture of lard, gunpowder, sulphur and alum.
A pill used called for sulphate of zinc, cayenne pepper, rhubarb and ipecac. Symptoms include vomiting, great thirst and a continual discharge of saliva. Red chickweed with two quarts of strong ale is also mentioned. Here's one for you history buffs. It's fragrant posies filled with herbs and flowers used to ward of unpleasant odors that one might encounter in his or her daily affairs.