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He alfo made ufe of a tindure, prepared of two ounces of the 



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frelli root digefted in fourteen ounces of fpirit of wine ; of this 

 twenty to fifty drops, two or three times a day, were, fuccefsfully 

 prefcribed in epilepfies, &c. and when joined with fteel, this root 

 we are told, was of great fervice to chlorotic patients. 



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The Didamnus undoubtedly is a medicine of confiderable power • 

 but, notwithftanding the account of it given by Stoerck, who feems 

 to have paid little attention to its modus operandi,, we may fllll 

 fay with Halicr, " Nondum autem vires pro dignitate exploratus 

 eft." 1. c. '" 



CANELLA ALBA, LAUREL-LEAVED CANELLA 



STNONTMJ. Canella alba. Fbarm, Lo?id, ^ EdinL Winterania 



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Canella. Lin, Supp, /. 247. Arbor baccifera laurifolia aromatica, 



fru£tu viridi calyculato racemofo. Shane s Jamaica^ voL ii, p, 87. 



/. iQ^i,f, 2. Catejhys Carolina^ vol, ii, p, 50. t, 50. Canella foliis 

 . oblongis obtufis nitidis, racemis terminalibus. Browne s Jatnaicay 

 ■ p, 275. /. 2j, f, 3. CafTia lignea Jamaicenfis Laureolae foliis fub- 



cinereis cortice piperis modo acri. Pluckenet Almag, p. 89. /. 81. 

 I. Lin, Spec, Plant, p, ^'^6, Conf, Swartz. Botanical Hijlory 



of the Canella Alba, Linnean TranfaEt'ions, p, 96. 



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Clafs Dodecandria. Ord, Monogynia. Lin, Gen, Winterania, p, 598 



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EJf, Gen, Ch, Gal, 3-lobus. Pet. 5. Anthers 16, adnatse nedario 



urceolato. Bacca 3-locularis. Sem, 2. 



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THE ftem of this tree rifes very flraight, from ten to fifty feet m 



height, and branched only at the top ; it is covered with a whitifli 

 bark, by which it is eafily diftinguiflied at a diftance from other trees in 

 the woods where it grows : the leaves are placed upon Ihort footftalks, 

 and Hand alternately : they are oblong, obtufe, entire, of a dark 



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