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mentioned : and the ifirft account of 
IV en 
by T 
Br 
botanical frardens 
no 
od 
t> 
L 1568 
It has 
and its virtues are extraded 
* and it now has a place in moil 
flron^ bitter naafecus tafte, but lit 
perfedly by aq 
of our 
more 
than by fpirituous menftrua. 
It has been obferve<l, that Gratiola refembles Digitalis both in the 
fhape of its flowers, and in its medicinal eiFeers : and hence it has been 
Diiritalis minima 
t> 
and operates with fuch 
It is certainly a powerful and adive 
d 
upon the ftomach, as 
g 
r H 
d on this account it is thought by Gh 
rally 
the 
more 
orous and robuft confti 
wever 
recommend 
Gr 
be a medicine adapted only 
tutions/ Many others, ho 
fedly fafe and ufeful purgative, declaring their repeated experience 
of its efficacy, without ever obferving any bad confequence to follow 
ufe. But as it is very uncertain in its efFed 
this med 
dofe 
Th 
P 
1 
requires the p 
has commonly b 
of 
a 
ufed 
d 
employment of 
eafe 
of its 
and in moderate dofes it is faid not only to ad as a hyd 
hydropical difeafes 
alfo to manifeft a diuretic charader 
T 
in afcites and anafar 
are 
wrj 
fici 
f 
\ 
Gefner 
dB 
dofe 
vomiting; others have 
dram, and even more.^ 
as m this quantity it frequently 
•agogue, but 
ctiid inilances of its good effeds 
d by many refpedable pradical 
found a fcruple of the pqvv^der a fuf- 
\ 
d 
naufea or 
^ 
g 
it to half a dr 
two fcrupl 
\ 
N 
T 
Herb 
He 
Kew. 
G 
Bemus 
Biji. PL Horu L. B. 
plant both in its recent and dried fkte. 
Epifi. Med. Lib. 3* ' Dodon. Pempt. p. 361. Boerh 
aave 
Mcd.p 
Thefe 
d 
UfuelL t. I. p. 48. ® Succus nimirum expreflus et infpifhitus ad dofm 24 vel^o 
granorum blande purgat abfque vomitu, fed lotium efficaciter pellit. Extra6i;um vero ex 
refiduo poft expreilionem aqua erutum et aniarius eft, et eadem dofi vioJentius purgat 
I 
Mt 
p> 200. 
^ Heurn 
Jcad. R. d. fc. 1705. p 
C 
Murray, Jp. Med 
Hi 
Med. &c. p 
\. 
Prax. Med. ~f. 332. 
Oper. torn, i, p. 716. Heluich. Mifc, Nat ^. ... 
Joel. Oper. Med. torn. 4. lib, 4/ Hartm. Oper. Med, Chym. p. „^.. 
_ • Chornel gave half a dram, Hermann two fcruples. Many emDioved the frelh 
m decoaion with the addition of cinnamon, mace, 
•^ee GeofFroy (M. M.) and others. 
Ettmul. 
ginger, anifeed 
An 
