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little 
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though fo highly extolled by Boerh 
A 
cording to Bergius it is " alexiteria, pellens, emmenag-oga, fudorifera 
rubifaciens." It is doubtlefs a powerful ilimul. 
fidered, like other medicines of the'fetid kind 
deobftruen 
adapted to 
d 
ifpafmodic power 
) 
phlegmatic habits 
3 
or we 
k 
and may be 
have attenuating, 
nd to be more peculiarly 
d hyfterical conftitutions, 
retions. ' In the London 
fuffering from retarded or obilruded fee 
Pharm. Ruta is direded in the form of an extrad, and it is alfo an 
ingredient in the Pulvis e myrrha compofitus. By fome it 
ployed in the way of tea. 
The opinion formerly entertained of this plant, maybe colleaed from the Schola 
em 
Salernitana, in which its virtues are thus celebrated. 
( 
N 
-/ 
37' P- 427 
V 
J 
I 
)bilis eft rutaj quia lumina reddit acuta; 
Auxilio rate, vir lippe videbis acute ; 
Cruda comefta rccens, oculos caligine purgat, 
Ruta viris minuit Venerem, mulieribus addit. 
Ruta facit caflum, dat lumen, & ingerit aflum. 
Codla & facit ruta de publicibus loca tuta. 
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CurienM.M.v.2.p.365 
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SALVIA OFFICINALIS 
GARDEN SAGE 
SrNONTMJ. Salvi 

Pharm, Lond, ^ Edtnh 
Gerard Emac, p. 764. Dodon, Pemp 
Zl 
Salvia major vulg 
P 
88 
Salvia major 
Bauh. Pin. p 
Park, Theat,^, 49v Salvia latifolia 
Bauh,Hift,^ iii. p. 304. Raii Hifl. p. 509. ^^o^^h rheophrajl, ^ 
Variet 
Biofcoridls exiftimatur efle 
■v 
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a 
Salvia maj 
C, Bauh 
AUorumque 
s. c 
Common 
^ Salvia minor, aurita et 
Greater Garden Sage 
non aurita. Baub, Pin 
- ji 
minor, feu 
f X 
guflifolia, ' AuBonim 
37 
Salvia 
Small Sage. 
Sage of Fir 
* 
1 
* Both thefe varieties are ufed medicinally 5 and the 
preferred to the broad. v j 
y 
Clafs Diandria 
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