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ing from the fenfible qualities of this plant, it may be fup- 
poied to poiTefs very adive powers, and on this confideration it is 
recommended by Wedelius " as an important remedy in 
medicines of a ftimulant,' aromatic, and 
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deobftruent quality ; and his opinion feems in fome meafure to have 
been fmce verified by adual experience of its efficacy, as appears 
from the infiiances of its^ fuccefsful employment by Linnssus, ^ 
■" ^ n--z ^^^ Pergius.'' The laft mentioned writer fays of it, 
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Ufus : Cachexia, Hyfteria, Debilitas nervorum.— -At prefent however 
Marum is here chiefly ufed as an errhine, and is an ingredient in the 
pulvis afari compofitus of the London Pharmacopoeia. The dofe of 
the powdered leaves is from a fcrupie to half a dram, which Murray 
advifes to be jriven in wine. . 
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® Difl de Maro refp. Hermar.no 1703. — Its cephalic efficacy is highly commended 
by Hermann (Cynos. Mat. Med, tun* 2. /». 349* j and Boerhaave {Htjl. Plant, hort, L. 
B. p. 262 J 
Of thefe we may mention Menftrua fupprefia, Apoplexy, Afthma, and various other 
pulmonary afFeclions. Vide 1. c. ^ 
5 Murray fayf, ^^ Litteris vero ad me datis, vir. illuftris perfcrlpfit, fe eaJem medela b. 
Rofenfteinio, diriffima et pertinaciffima tuffi cum diificillima refpiratione in ulthno morbo 
conflidlato, levamen attulifle exoptatiffimum." 1. c. 
^ He mentions the cafe of a lady who received a blow upon the head by falling from 
a carriage, v/hich brought on a fpecies of apoplexy, and was cured by this plant, after 
federal other means had been tried ineffedtually. M. M, p. 504, 
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