lafl ed 
of our Pharmacopoeia 
L 
f. 
ys 
a 
th 
A 
fi 
eili an 
moderately dried roots were digefted in water, in wine, in proof 
an 
d 
m 
dified 
wi 
and without heat 
the 
eceived no colour, and little or no tafte. In dift 
any fenfible impregn 
fpirit nor water brought over 
liquors 
1 neither 
from the 
Arum 
whole 
The root, neverthelefs: lofes in thefe operations almoft the 
f its 
pungency 
5Jb 
The qu 
of this root are thus 
i 
enumerated by B 
incidens, diuretic 
ms 
Virtus recent. ficL 
r vehementiffima 
Dr. Culle 
d 
fee 
to confider it as a eeneral ftimul 
ftimulans, apei 
nutriens . 
mt. not 
»'c 
y 
nly 
be 
obfer 
iting the adivity of the digeftive powers, where they happen t 
'y in proof of this h 
d. but ftimul 
hole fvftem 
p 
that it has been ufeful in 
mittent 
ancient writers. 
much commended, both as an 
Arum 
[ and c 
remedy, and is faid that " Ratione particularum tenuium & 
um mucum 
;f. 
um 
& fpiffum ventriculi & intefti 
was prefcribed in all that 
pofed to proceed a fuccorum 
Colluvies pituitofa,. Anorexia. 
Cachexia, Febris intermitten 
ftimulant. ar 
num 
fs of 
parietibus adhj^rentem potenter incidit, attenuat, atque refolvit ;" and 
formerly fup- 
^rs it ufeful in 
Afthma humorale. 
B 
ms 
onfid 
Cephal^a fymp 
Arum is ce 
a 
d by promoting the fecret 
y powerful 
eoufly 
mployed in cachedic and chlorotic 
afes 
iFed 
we 
and in various other complaints of phle 
tions ; but more efpecially 
ilomacli 
root is 
youn 
occafioned by the prevalence of vifcid mucus 
iven m 
powd 
reat care ftiould b 
inly a ve: 
may be adv 
in rheumatii 
tic and torpid conftitu- 
or relaxed ftate of the 
If this 
that it be 
,ke 
d newly dried, when it may be ufed in the dofe of a fcrupl 
■ more twice a day : but in rheumatifms and other diforders req 
g the full effeds of^^ this medicine, the root ihould be given in a 
the 
ftate, and to cover the infupportable pungency it difc 
g 
Dr. Lewis advifes us to adminifter it in the form 
b 
■ U Tales 
M 
M. M.7 
M. M 
poteft acrimonia, mitigatur penitus ebullitione. Caeterum plures Ari fpecies apud varlas 
gentes efculent^ funt. N 
C) 
Bergius, 1. c. 
Bergius fpeaks highly of the efficacy of Arum in thefe headachs, which were of the 
root, which never failed to relieve them 
he employed 
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