15^ 
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r 
pletely than water. The fp 
\ 
fiderabl 
part 
of the odoriferous matter 
of 
alfo m dlftill 
the leaves. 
d 
P 
of that 
f th 
flowers : leaving in the infpiflated 
re 
£ls 
ft 
a 
moderate pungency and bitternefs, with very little fmell 
d 
Lavender has been an officinal plant for a conliderable time, though 
we have no certain accounts of it given by the ancients : its medicinal 
virtue refides in the efTential oil, which is fuppofed to be a gentle cor- 
roberant and ftimulant of the aromatic kind," and is recommended in 
^ 
nervous debilities and various affed 
proceeding 
from a want of 
cc 
ergy 
wheth 
m 
th 
" lant to tl 
a 
«c 
(C 
a 
a 
named Cephali< 
beft title to it." 
mal functions, 
illy applied or g 
^ous fyitem ; an 
8, the Lavender 
And he further fay 
Accord 
to Dr. GuUen, it 
iven internally, a powerful ftir 
d amdne the others of this ord 
has a 
is 
.^n^ 
b 
c 
ry good and perhaps the 
t appears to me probable, 
that it will feldom go further than exciting the energy of the br 
to a 
anim 
fuller impu 
of the 
power 
the nerves of th 
^ 
fundions, and feldom into thofe of 
vital. 
It 
may 
" however' be with g 
propriety 
5 
that ProfeiTor Murray has 
^^ diffuadecl its ufe where there is any danger from a ftimuhis applied 
u 
to th 
p 
*' Lavende 
(C 
ic 
u 
a 
th 
y b 
It is however ftill probabl 
only 'ftimulates the nervous fyftem only 
fanguiferous fyftem 
more 
fafe 
pecially if the Lavender b 
or along with heat 
oma 
done 
th 
afe of the fpirit 
th 
and 
palfy than the warmer aromatics, 
given in a fpirituous menftruum, 
which however is commonly 
. The 
\ 
vendula^ compofit 
"f 
officinal preparations of Lavender, are the eflential oil, a fimple fpirit 
and a com^pound tincture. , 
d Lewis's Mat. Med. p. 371. 
• Bei-glus fays, FIrtus : nervina, refolvens, tonica, emmenagoga. Ufus : externus 
M. M. p, 513. 
rMat. Med. vol. ii. p. 148. 
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