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m dvotyfiesJ' and fome cutaneous 
a(51: of 
i 
difeaf< 
es. 
— 1 
k 
The water 
made after the manner dired:ed in the pna 
is one of the beft and fafefl: 
v_ J 
of it, 
copoeias, 
deiigned for a cathartic,- as it contains b6th the purgative and d 
parts of the Hellebore j it rnay be given in a dofe from 
a fcruple, or more. 
when 
'i 
A tindure of this drug is 
rains to 
alfo ordered in the 
pharmacopoeias, which is preferred for the purpofes of 
% V 
d deobjR:ruent ; of which a tea-fpoonful twice a day may be con 
/ 
fid ere d 
dofe 
/ 
^ f 
J^ 
V ' 
^ By Avicenna, Gefner, Klein, Milman, and Bacher wHofe- famous tonic pills are thiis. 
prepared : ]\r Ext. 
Helleb. Nig. Myrrhae 
Solutae aa ;^j pulv. Card, bened. '^iij M, 
F. f. a. Mailii. acre ficco exficcanda, donee formandis pilulis apta fit, fmgul. ad 
femifs. 
Diir. de le 
^ In the lepra Graecorum. Vide Aretasus Oper. ed. J3oerh. p. 136. Schmi 
?pra in Haller's collea. Difp. pra£l. T. 6. p. 83. And Hildanus mentions 
gran, 
del 
the 
cafe of a girj v/ho was cured of an obftinate fcabies of the face by this extraft. 1. c. 
* The irritating power of its adive matter being confidei-ably abated by the boilino-. 
Lewis's M. M. " ' ° 
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HELLEBORUS FOETIDUS 
FETID HELLEBORE, Or 
BEARVFOOT. 
STNONTMJ. He 
Pharm 
Helleborus 
Niger FcKtidus." ' Batih, Pin, 185. Hellebbrafcer maximus flore & 
femine prseg 
Lobel p. 679. Helleborafter maximus. Gerard, 
Herb. p. 977. Helleborus maximus five Confiligo. Park 
2 1 2 . 
Helleborus caule ramofo, multifloro, fol 
Hip 
Halle 
multip 
^ ■ 
ferr 
Stirp, Helv, p 
Elleborus niger fylveftris adulterinus etiam hy 
3. p. 880. Veratrum nigrum 3. Dodon. Pempt, ^ii. Great 
93 
y, Bauh. 
Black H 
Bear's-Foot 
P 
. Setterworty Rail Synopfu 
Withering' s BoLArran, 582. Relhans Flor, Cant., p. 2 1 8. 
Polyandria. Order Polygynia. Z. Gen, Plant, 702. 
EJf, Gen, Ch, Gal 
lata. 
Petala 5 f. pi 
Gaps, polyfpermse, erediufcul^ 
iV"^^^m bilabiata, tubu 
Ch 
H. caule multifloro foliofo, foliis pedat 
THE root is fmall, but befet with a prodisious number of flender 
dark 
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