Some observations made upon the root called nean, or ninsing, imported from the East-Indies. Shewing its wonderful virtue, in curing consumptions, ptissicks, shortness of breath, distillation of rhume, and restoring nature after it hath been impaired by languishing distempers, and long fits of sickness. Publisht by a doctor of physick in York-shire, in a letter to Mr. Colwell, a member of the Royal Society, 1680.