I was conducted into the kitchen, bright with copper pans and the marmite-it was as sweet and clean as a dairy; the resources of the still-room were displayed to me, and the confitures and spices were not more remarkable than the domestic pharmacy in which the herbs of the field had been distilled by Madame's own hands to yield their peculiar virtues, rue for liver, calamint for cholera, plantain for the kidneys, fennel for indigestion, elderberry for sore throat, and dandelion for affections of the blood.
"Leaves from a Field Note-Book"
J. H. Morgan
The land here is of an excellent soil, and the climate is quite healthy; the soil being full of good herbs, as mints, calamint, plantain, ribwort, trefoil, scabious, and such like.
"A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. VIII."
Robert Kerr
The calamint contains a camphoraceous, volatile, stimulating oil, in common with the other mints; this is distilled by water, but its virtues are better extracted by rectified spirit.
"Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure"
William Thomas Fernie