Modern superstition is woven into the beautiful scene, where Hadda Padda, with heroically mastered despair, meets the Herborist who talks of her plants in a calm poetic manner, reminiscent of the way Ophelia speaks of the flowers she has picked and collected.
"Hadda Padda"
Godmunder Kamban
The author almost always rejects the Greek recipes, and doctors as an Herborist....
"Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles"
Daniel Hack Tuke