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This plant produces its flowers in May and Jun^ 
and grows in meadows and low ground 
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b 
t IS a native 
t the feeds 
of Britain, 
of the cultivated plant are faid to be larger, more oily, and of a more 
are hot and 
agreeable flavour than thofe of the wild pi 
acrid. 
which 
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Caraway feeds are well known to h 
pleafant 
d a warm aromatic tafte 
d on th 
y fmel 
ceconomical purpofe 
fed for various 
u 
They give out the whole of their 
i 
by moderate digeflion, to rectified fj 
Watery infufions of thefe 
feeds are ftronger in fmell than the fpirituous tindure, but weak 
taft 
giv 
peated infufion, in frefh portions of water, they Hill 
after r( 
a confiderable talle to 
• elevates all the aromatic 
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diftill 
or evaporation 
extract is almoft infipid, and thus difcovers, th 
part of the Caraways : the remaining 
Carawavs there 
lefs. th 
a 
oft of the other warm feeds of European growth, of 
a bitterifh or ungrateful matter j 
with the aqueous fluid there arifes 
ed 
to the aromatic 
Along 
in diftillation a very confiderabl 
quantity, about one ounce from thirty, of efl^ential oil ; in tafte hotter 
and more pungent than thofe obtained from moft of our other warm 
feds.'"" 
The Caraway feeds are 
be carmin 
dial 
and 
ftomachic, and 
ecommended in dyfpepfi 
flatulen 
cies 
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fymptoms attending hyfterical and hypochondrial diforders 
d other 
: they 
are alfo reported to be diuretic, and to promote the fecretion of milk. 
They formerly entered many of the compofitions in the Pharmaco- 
are now lefs frequently employed. An eflential oil, 
from them by the 
poeias 
and a 
but 
a diftilled fp 
London College. 
are direded to be 
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efit 
C 
e pane feminibus Carui & cerevifia co£lum. D 
Ruftlcl noftrates 
Carui utuntur in reaificatione fpiritus frumenti, ut ille acuatur oleo ftellatitio carui, 
aitpote calefaciente, unde fpiritus fortior apparet, &c. 
oil as colourlefs as water. 
nds of unbruifed caraway feeds four ounces of eiTent 
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RHEUM PALMATUM, 
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