\ 
121 
to b 
plag 
a very powerful 
ph 
and 
and 
pab 
f 
of 
g the 
^ ber fevers of the moll malignant kind ;' but its good 
efieds in this way have nov/ as Httle credit as thofe of its external 
"^y r 
ufe, by which cancers and carious bones are faid to have been healed/ 
Bei 
diu 
ports, that it is antacida, corroborans, ftomachica, fudorifera 
It it is ufeful in Anorexia, Cachexia 
eccopr 
d th 
\ 
Cephalalgia fympatica, Arthritis, Febres intermittentes 
We 
however, with equal propriety, attribute thefe virtues to many 
ght 
fimple bitters, from which the Carduus does not feem to be peculiarly 
different. In lofs of appetite," where the ftomach was injured by 
been frequently 
irregulanti 
experience 
h 
d 
the good effeds of the C 
Formerly it was a eommon pradice to affift the op 
tion of emetics, by drinking an infufion of the Carduus ; but the 
fl 
of chamo 
nile have fmce been fubflituted for, this purpofe, 
and probably may be advantageoufly done for feveral others in which 
the Carduus is recommended. The feeds have 
emulfion with the fame intention as the 
* Matthiol. in Diofcor. p. 597. 
alfo been employed 
* J.^ Bauh, hift. torn. 3. p. 79. Arnold de Villa Nova praSf, c. 44. 
' . * Duncan Edinb. New Difpenf. 
"^ 
M©MORDICA ELATERIUM. 
WILD, Or SQUIRTING 
CUCUMBER. 
STNONTMA^. Cucumis agreflis. Fharm, Lond, Cucumis 
afminus. Gerard Emacp, (^12, Cucumis fylveflris afminus didus. 
Bauh* Pin, 314. Cucumis fylveftris five afminus. y. Bauh, i. /. 
248. 
Rait Hiji,'p,6^j, Cucumis agreflis five afminus 
Park 
Theat, 161. '^^■Avsayqm Grcecorum* Succus frudus infpiflatus, Elate 
" \. 
X 
rmm didus 
N 
Clafs Monoecia. Ord, Syngenefia. Lin, Gen, Plant, 1090 
u 
Ejf. Gen, Ch, Masc. Col, 5-fidus. Cor, 5-partita. Filamenta 3. 
Fem, Cal, 5-fidus. Cor, 5-partita. Stjhis 3-fidus* 
Pomum elailice diiTiliens. 
\ " 
^ ' ■ _ 
Sj). Ck -"M. pomis hifpidis, cirrhis nullis* 
jTHE 
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