rt 



o 



anitnts 



the 



germen 



is roimdiili, placed below the corolla, and 



the fruit is a round 



with obtufe ftigmata : 



fupports a cloven flyle, 



fliining red berry, of one cell, feparated into two receptacles, and 



containing many roundifli feeds. It is a native of Britain, and 

 ufually grows in dry woodlands. , 



As the white Currant-tree is merely a variety of the red, the fruit 

 of both, whether confidered in a botanical or medical fenfe, is per- 

 fediy analogous ; therefore what is obferved here of the latter will 



apply equally to the former. 



It is well known that the red Currant is abundantly cultivated in 

 our gardens, whence we are plentifully fupplied with the fruit, which, 



rateful acidity, becomes univerfally acceptable, either as 



Its 



from 



nature prefents it, or variouHy prepared by art' with the addition of 

 fugar. By Dr. Cullen, this fruit is claiTed with the alimentary plants, 

 and from being generally and exclufively confidered as fuch, it v/as 



of the Materia Medica till that 

 publifhed in the laft edition of the London Pharmacopoeia. 



The medicinal qualities of red Currants appear to be fimilar to 

 thofe of the other fubacid fruits, which are . efteemed to be mode- 



not received in the Britifli catalogues 



~i 



rately refrigerant, antifeptic, attcnuant,* and aperient. They may be 

 ufed with confiderable advantage to allay thirft in moft febrile com- 

 plaints; to leffen an increafed fecretion of bile j'' and to corred a putrid 

 and fcorbutic ftate of the fluids, efpecially in fanguine temperaments : 

 but in conftitutions of a contrary kind, they are apt to occafion flatu- 

 lency and indigeftion. 



^ 



« " The juice is a moft agreeable acid in punch. If equal weights of picked curr; 



■o 



be 



jelly 



ng 



fire, t 

 Th 



oft 



J 



Hoffman and Boerhaave had great confidence 



obftlnate vifceral obftruaions 



rgeat, or lemonade. 



in the efEcacy of thefe 



Jb 



See Madurg on the Bile, where the eifeas of the vegetable acid are confidered 



*-... 



RIBES NIGRUM. 



