Gerarde says: "The great part of the root seemeth to be bitten away: old fantasticke charmers report that the Devil did bite it for envie, because it is an herbe that hath so many good vertues, and is so beneficial to mankinde.
The Laurel being sacred to Apollo as well as to AEsculapius, was used in the temples of both these divinities, partly to induce sleep and dreams, partly to produce beneficial effects in various diseases.
On this principle, diverse colours were said to cure diverse humours in the human body; for example, Tripolium, Panacaea, and Triphera were considered beneficial for all humours.
Philosophy is beneficial in cultivating the heart and the mind.
Finally, what idea would we form of the foolishness of the common man who, in spite of this confession, would continue to pay very high for remedies which will not be beneficial to him?
Beneficial variations of all kinds have been preserved and injurious ones eliminated.
This would, no doubt, through the laws of inheritance, be beneficial in producing animals of greater vigor and more perfect health.
That the system was beneficialto the State by tending to secure healthy offspring is probable; but Lycurgus took other means of bringing about this result.
This change took place only a few months ago, and already its beneficial effects are clearly manifest.
The grounds about them were improved and beautified with flowers and shrubs, and the change was very beneficial and agreeable to us all.
He was one who lived the gospel which he preached, and unconsciously diffused a beneficial influence all about him.
That its influence has been in some respects beneficial is also incontestible.
Although we have only viewed the institution of chivalry in its outward and more attractive aspects, yet it inculcated a high code of personal morality, very beneficial in the feudal ages.
The feudal institutions gave birth to chivalry, which exercised so predominant a sway through the middle ages, and in what light soever it is regarded, was beneficial in its influences.
The beneficial effects which followed were not always owing to the purest motives, or the benevolence of the Church; but more frequently from the desire of maintaining its own privileges and wealth.
But the relatively more modern towns, such as Brussels and Antwerp, were ready to accept the beneficial protection of the princes.
From the general point of view of the country's prosperity, the change was beneficial and the princes showed wisdom in supporting it.
Such measures would have been beneficial to Belgium, but they needed a deep knowledge of and sympathy for local conditions to be carried out successfully.
The rule of the dukes was equally beneficial to the smaller towns and villages of the country-side.
The technique then was to work out an artificial culture that would be most beneficial for a planet, then bend it into the mold.
We no longer attempt to guide cultures towards what we consider a beneficial goal.
Yates, president of the Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association; and Terence V.
The poet's name will go down to future ages as the idol of his countrymen; may the beneficial effect produced by a mind like his upon the character and aspirations of the world be enduring!
The Literary Gazette says: "It is a book for which the time is ripe, and it cannot fail to produce the most beneficial results, directly and indirectly, on our national architecture.
The society of this distinguished man produced the most beneficial effect on him.
He saw the wars, which had yielded him laurels and enriched his state, subside into a peace still more beneficial to his subjects and conducive to his tastes.
Let your feathered pet lie for half an hour in this beneficial bondage, and then replace it in the cage, scattering some powder upon the floor.
A sheet of thin white paper fastened against a window-pane is also useful; and the simple plan of dabbing the glass with putty will have a beneficial effect in softening the light, when the window has a southern aspect.
Various dry grains, such as barley, oats, and Indian corn, are useful to the rabbit; and dry peas are also beneficial if sparingly given when the creature has been partaking largely of green food.
It is also useful in the development of muscular strength, as well as highly beneficial to the nervous system, and repairs the vital functions when falling into decline.
This exercise, within the reach of everybody, ought to be placed among the number of those which are direct conservators of health, and which have the most important beneficial effects upon our mental and moral economy.
For I had trial of their beneficial operations in the case of those scorpion-stung, nor less in the case of bones stuck fast in the throat, immediately, by an incantation thrown up.
The water is under the tutelage of the Saint, and to this day held to be extremely beneficial in the falling sickness.
The husk was therefore used for scalp wounds, the inner peel for disorders of the meninges, and the kernel was beneficial for the brain and tended to resist poisons.
We also know that mental influence may, in fact does, have an indirect but no less beneficial influence in the cure of tuberculosis.
Quacks and philosophers know that if the bones of any skeleton were put in the place of the saint's bones, the sick would none the less experience beneficial effects, if they believed they were near veritable relics.
Meanwhile, be it known to you that your union and friendship with the Russian Government will be beneficial to the latter, and still more so to you.
The conversion of feudal Chiefs into ordinary law-abiding subjects is a process which, however beneficial to the many, is certain to be strenuously resisted by the few.
Environment is always capable of modification, and, when improved, the result is invariably a beneficial one for those concerned.
H - Is it beneficial from an hygienic point of view?
Under which the prisoners are not allowed to associate with each other, but receive frequent visits from gaolers, warders, chaplains, and other persons who are likely to bring beneficial influence to bear upon them.
I did not formerly sufficiently consider the existence of structures which, as far as we can at present judge, are neither beneficial nor injurious; and this I believe to be one of the greatest oversights as yet detected in my work.
That this atonement might be made with money was as beneficial to humanity as useful to the Church.
The political brotherhood which philosophy inculcates is more beneficialto us than the purely spiritual brotherhood, for which we are indebted to Christianity.
They are foods which, to be beneficial to the system of the consumer, require a great deal of muscular exertion on his part.
That the increased volume of currency thus supplied for the use of the people was needed and that beneficial results upon trade and prices have followed this legislation I think must be very clear to everyone.
The work of the State Department during the last year has been characterized by an unusual number of important negotiations and by diplomatic results of a notable and highly beneficial character.
Good faith demands that if the United States accepts the lands ceded the beneficial construction of the act given by our agents should be also admitted and observed.
It is not to be expected that the banks having these deposits will sell their bonds to the Treasury so long as the present highly beneficial arrangement is continued.
Some of these measures were enacted at so late a period that the beneficial effects upon commerce which were in the contemplation of Congress have as yet but partially manifested themselves.
All in all, the rest was beneficial to the navy, and many defects were remedied and reforms inaugurated.
I think it is a general opinion, and one to which I have long come, that the beneficial effects of Christ's death extend to the whole human species.
We were very idle, and stayed to wash our feet in its crystal waters, dressing them with common soap, which we had always found very beneficial as a salve.
Fontanges, Archbishop of Toulouse, possessed also the Queen's confidence; but none of the endeavours which were made on the spot produced any, beneficial result.
But the beneficial results of the scientific method in both philanthropy and medicine are already sufficiently apparent to enable us to see that it will do much more for humanity than the kind but blind benevolence of the past.
