f 



229 



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tafte It mamfells a notable fweetnefs of the liquorice kind, together 



and a flight roiighnefs covered by the 

 •eat part both of the bitter and fweet 



th a conhderable bitternefs 



f\Areet m 

 fubftanc 



It 



ives out 



y . and fp 



g 



men 



1 



a 



m 



watery decodion a confiderable quantity of refi 

 which does 



water, but is readily taken lip by fp 



or 



the 



not mingle with the remaining extract 



evaporatin 



matter feparates, 



nor diilolve in 



moft perfed: diffo 



of its -dCu 



tindure and extrad are in tafte ftronger than the 



whence fpirit appear 



Both the fp: 



parts 



atery 



»? e 



The fads adduced on the utility of radix pareirse brav^ in neph 

 and calculous cafes, are principally thofe by H 



G 



Lochner : th:r firfl fee 

 GeofFroy attribut 

 mucus to which the fab 



think that it ads 



oy 



ntnp 



and 

 but 



s 



power of diilolvina; the indurated 



matter adhe 



mended 



hui 



ul 



It has alfo b 



jaundice,' afthma, and fome other ch 



cers of the bladder, fiuor albus, rheumatifm 



difeafes. The accounts 



iven of the fuccefsful employment of this root by the French 

 writers, induced phyficians to try its eifeds in this country; but we 

 find no reniarkable inilances of its efficacy recorded by Britifh prac 

 titioners ; and as a proof of its being fallen into difrepute, the £din 

 burgh College has expunged it from the Materia Medical The dofe 

 of the powdered root is from one fcruple to two. Geoifroy direds 

 two or three drams of the root to be bruifed and boiled in a pint and 



half of water till only a pint 



which 



dofes 



be divided 



Mat. Med. p. 48 q 



' Vide 1, c. in note ( ^ ) 



s And Bergius fays, « Certe vidi ego calculofos, arthritiGos & rheumaticos plures, 



ufum ejus abfque fucceflli 



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Mat, Med. p. 815 



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