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the apex, and yeilowlfli at the bafe ; the filaments are fix, four Ion 
and two fhort, invefted at the bottom with four nedareous glands ; 
the anthers are fmall, oblong, and placed upright upon the fummits 
of the iilaments ; there is no ftyle ; the germen is round, ilender. 
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about the length of the flamina, and becomes a long compreffed 
two valves, which, on opening, roll back in a fpiral manner. 
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and in the cells are contained many round feeds. It is common in 
meadows and moift paftures, producing its flowers in April and May. 
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This plant has the fame fenfible qualities as water-crefs, though in 
degree to it, and indeed to moft of that clafs of plants, 
inferior 
called by Dr. Cullen filiquofas, which comprehends both the orders of 
filiquofa and filiculofa of Linnseus, and the cruciform of Tournefort. 
It is the flower of the Cardamine which has a place in the materia 
medica of the Britifh Pharmacopoeias, upon the authority of Sir 
George Baker, who, in the year 1767, read a paper at the London 
College, recommending thefe flowers as an antifpafmodic remedy-, 
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which has fmce been publiflied in the Medical Tranfadions.^ . In this 
account Sir George relates five cafes *" wherein the flores cardamines 
were fuccefsfully ufed ; and in a P. S. to the fecond edition, he fays, 
" Since the firfl: edition of this volume, I have feen feveral inftances of 
the good effeds of flores cardamines in convulfive diforders." In 
Epilepfy, however, this remedy has been generally found unfuccefsfuL 
Greeding, who tried it in a great number of cafes, and in large 
dofes, experienced but one infl:ance of its good effeds.'' The dofe of 
the powdered flowers is from half a dram to two drams. 
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We find no account of the ufe of thefe flowers but by Dal 
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MSS. D. Tancred Robinfon, M. D 
Flos in convulfion 
Pharmacol, 204. 
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Medical Tranfa£l 
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with convulfions on the palfied iide, and a cafe of remarkable fpafmodic afFeaions o'f the 
lower limbs J the two firft were cured in lefs than a month; the two fecond were alfo 
happily removed : but in the laft cafe the patient had experienced fome relief from the 
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See 1. c. 
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Ludwig. Advers. Medico-praa. Vol. 3. P. 3. p. 564 
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