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rdeners. This, like fome other fpecies o 
the clematis, is 
extremely acrid, and hence the name Flammiila* The recent leaves 
upon being chewed, excite a, burning heat of the tongue and fauces 
in the mouth, produce blifters and 
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and if retained Ion 
but, by drying, this acrimony is confiderably diniiniflied :: the flowers 
Ulceration ; 
iikewiie 
poiTefs a iliare of acrimony, though in a lefs de 
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Flammula Jovis, although mentioned by Dale and fome others as an 
external remedy, was hrft recommended to the attention of pradi- 
tioners by Baron Stoerck in 1769, as an ufeful medicine in 
obftinate complaints, if He publiihed feveral cafes of its fuccefsfut 
exhibition, particularly in inveterate fyphilitic difeafes producing head- 
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aches, pains in the bones, nodes, ulcejs, cutaneous affeftions^ &c.* 
Whether this plant .really deferves the 
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which the 
arort 
has thus, attempted to 
1,, by ftating its 
uniform fuccefs in 
, twenty-tv/o cafes out 'of tv/enty-four, in which it was tried, refts 
folely upon his own authority \ and it is with concern we obferve, 
■ that the medical -fads at Vienna are not very confidently received \)j 
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t was ufual for 
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toerck to 
employ the leaves and flowers, as well as an extract prepared from. 
the former, yet the preparation which he chiefly recommends is aa 
lion of two or three drams 
of 
the 
le 
aA^es m a pmt 
of boiling 
water \, of which he gave four ounces three times a day, while the 
powdered leaves were applied as an efcharotic to the ulcers.. 
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aches, not proceeding from this caufe, the Flarnmula Jovis is faid to have been like.wife 
fuccefsful ; and in his Lib. de Pulfat. p, 57. we are told^ of its remarkable efficacy in a. 
cafe of melancholia triftiffima. It generally a6i:'ed as a diuretic or diaphoretic. , 
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