245 



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7 



experience of 



I found it firft in ufe 



among our common people ; but I have fince prefcribed it to fome 

 of my patients in the manner following: I order half an ounce of 



frefh Broom top 



be b 



th 



7 



confumed, 

 hour till it 



d of this decodion I 



pound of water 



half of 



opei 



g 



by ftool, or till the whol 



two table-fpoonful 



taken 



feldom fails to operate both by ftool and urine, and by repeatin 

 exhibition every day, or every fecond day, fome dropfies h 



It 



ed 



d 



The afhes of Broom have alfo been much ufed in dropfi 



principally 



their good efFeds has been fmce 



thority of Sydenham," whole account of 



M 



nd other writers 



f 



firmed' by the teftimony of Dr 



We may obferve however th 



th 



efficacy of this medicine muft depend entirely upon the alkaline fal 



the vegetable from which it is obtained 



and 



th 



ft 



upo 



The feeds and flowers of Broom are faid to be emetic and cathartic 



but the evidence upon which this aflert 



efts 



wholly to b 



relied upon, as the former when roafted have been ufed as a fubftit 

 for cojEee, and the latter employed as a pickle.^ 



W 



Mat. Mi 



voL 



^^^ P'SU 



d 



Opera^ p. 497 



* He gave a dram divided into three dofes every day. 



Handl. 1762. p 



Dropfy^ p 



8 Purgat geniftag femen non minus potenter fQre quam Spartium aut Helleborus, &c. 



G 



, fffipius |ii decoao propinato eitra magnam contentionem le movifle fcribens. Verum flores 

 recens dccerptos fepiffime quampluritnos & per fe acetariis inditos vorat, ^inquit plcL^ecula 

 Arverna and Aquitanirc maxima copia innocuos non modo led etiam admodum guftui 

 fuaves ; nee quicquam vomitionis naufea^ve, aut commotionis mov.re folent. Quin 

 apud Brabantos, & nnglos non minus, gemmantes dum adhuc virides funt condiuntur 

 lale & aceto flores, menifque inferuntur, Capparum OJearumve pari commendatione. 



Ray I. c. 



afFedions 



MS 

 uary, with honey 



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