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The name Camomile is fuppofed to be expreflive of the fin 



the 



the av^^^is 



C ham-on 



y^xiAd^i^iXov, quonlam odorem mah 



hab 



It is referred 



of Diofcorides, and to the ^v V^v of Theophraftus. M 



Corn Feverfew 



fim 



the Anthemis nobil 



d is 



general appearance 



fled for officinal ufe by moll of 



the foreign pharmacopoeias ; but the plant which we have here figured 

 has a more fragrant and a more powerful odour, yields more effe 



oil, 



d of courfe is the more effi 



A double-flower' d 



ety 



o 



Camomile is very common, and 



ufually kept in the ihops, but as the odorous and fapid matter chiefly 

 refides in the difc, or tubular part of the florets, the ^.ondon College 

 therefore judicioufly prefer the fimple 



flowers 



which this matter 



mofl: abund 



Both the leaves and flowers of this plant have a flrong though 



the b 



grateful fmell, and a very b 



confiderably 



nd 



laufeous 

 aromatic 



tafl: 



but the 



" Camomile flowers 



irive out their virtues both to water and redifled fpirit : when the 



flowers h 



b 



dried fo as to be pulverabl 



the 



fufions prov 



more grateful than whe 



y 



are frefli or but moderately dried 



Difliilled with water, they impregnate the aqueous fluid pretty ftrongly 



with their fl 

 peration, is large 



if the quantity of camomil 



fubmitted 



th 



(Tential oil ' feparates and rifes to the fur- 

 flice of the water, in colour yellow, with a caft of greemfti or brown 



of a pungent tafle, and a fl:ro 



> 



camomi 



Redifled 



bring 

 leave 



over likewife a p 



^^ fmell, exadly refembling that of the 

 drawn off" from the fpirituous tindure, 



of the chamomile, but 



of the fl 



nfiderable part behind in the extrad 



The fmell is m 



p;reat meafure covered or fupprefl^ed by the fpirit, in all the fpirituous 

 preparations ; but the tafte both in the fpirituous tindure and extract, 



onfiderahle fl;ronger than in the watery 



Pi, 



L 



C. 21. 



. ^ The tubes of the florets appear befet 

 the effenti ' oil. 



lands, which probably fecrete 



d 



oil. 



Baume obtained from 82}fe of the flowers 13 drams, and once^iH 

 But from a like quantity of the herb, without the flowers, on.y hail a u 



ofeffi 



procured 



See BnK' M. M. p. 695 







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