309 



<* The writers of the Edinburgli Medical Commentaries take notice 

 tliat the decoaion of cabbage-bark always excites vomiting. We find 

 no fuch effed from it here, and may account for it by their receiving 



It in 



mouldy ft 



A fyrup, therefore, is 



g 



there with better 



e 



ffea:. They obferve alfo that it has a diuretic virtue, which we have 

 taken notice of here 

 This bark purges pretty brifkly, efpecially in powd 



r 



thirty 



way 



forty grains working as well as jallap by ftool ; but in this 

 does not feem to kill w-orms fo well as in decodion. 



« Five grains of the extrad made a ftrong man fick, and purged 

 him feveral times ; but, by frequent ufe, he took ten grains to produce 

 at length the fame efFed. 



It muft not be concealed that fatal accidents have happened from 



dofing 



the imprudent adminiftration of this bark, chiefly from 



the medicine 



bark, fince the beft medicines, when abufed, become deleterious 



But this cannot detrad from the merit of the cabbag 



and 



even our beft aliments, in too great quantity, prove deftrudive. Upo 

 the whole, the cabbage-bark is a moft valuable remedy, and I hop 

 will become an addition to the materia medica,'^ 



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PASTINACA OPOPANAX. 



OPO PANAX, 

 Or, ROUGH PARSNEP. 



\ 



Opopanax, gummi-r efin a . Pharm, Lond, 



Sr NO NT MA 



Panax coftinum. Baub, F, 



Heracleum. 

 1 676. /. 2 8 



56 



Panax 



Morris Hift, /. ///. p, 315. Boccone^yourn, des Sf. 



Gerard Emac, p 



3 



Rail Hlfl, p, 4 



Hera- 



cleum alterum, five peregrinum Dodonaei. FarL Tbeat. p. 948 



t'aftinaca fylveftris altiffima 



^ouan 



> 



Ilhift^ 



Tourn. Jnjl. 



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P. Opopanax 



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3 



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4 



r^j 



Clafs 



