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Figs are fuppofed to be more nutritious, by having their fugar united 



with a large portion 



thoug 



to b 



e 



of mucilaginous matter, which, from bein^r 

 of an oily nature, has been long efteemed an ufeful 



demulcent and pectoral 



d it is chiefly with a view to thefe effed 



that they have been medicinally employed 



Fig 



direded by the London Pharm. in the decodum hordei 



compofitum, and in the elediuarium lenitivum. Externally applied 

 they are fuppofed to promote the fuppuration of tumours, and hence 

 have a place in maturating cataplafms ; with this intention they are 

 alfo fometimes ufed by themfelves, as warm as they can eafily be 

 borne, to phlegmons of the gums, and other parts where a poultice 



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iently be applied 



AMOMUM REPENS 

 SEU CARDAMOMUM. 



OFFICINAL CARDAMOMw 



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STNO NTMA. >Cardamomum minus. Fharm, Lond, & Edinb. 

 Gerard, Emac, p, 1547. ParL T'beaL p, 1576. Car damomum: 

 fimpUciter in officinis didum. JBaiib, PIn,p./^i^, Cardamomum 



cum filiquis feu thecis brevibus. ^, Bauh, Hijl, vol //. /. 205. 

 Amomum repens, feu Le Cardamome de la Cote de Malabar. 

 Sonnerat Voyage aux Indes oriental, torn. It, p, 240. tab, I36> Alia 

 fpecies eft Amomum Cardamomum L.fcapo fimplicifrimo breviffimo. 



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Clafs Monandria. Ord, Monogynia. Lin. Gen, Plant, 2. 



E[f, Gen, Ch, Cor, 4-fida : lacinia prima patente. 



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Ch 



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A. fcapis ramofis elongatis decumbentibus. 



Smithy Syji, Veg, 



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ned, 



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THE root is perennial : the ftalks are fimple, fheathy, ered, grow 

 to a confiderable height, and befet with leaves, which are 



ihaped 



g 



entire, 



ely pointed 



lance 



bbed, and ftand alternately 



upon the iheaths of the ftalk : the flower fl:alk proceeds immediately 



from 



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