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- The leaves of this plant are apparently very watm and aromatic; 
of an agreeable fmell, and hot biting tafte. They impart their 
virtues both to water and rectified fpirit. Diftilled with water, they 
give over a moderately ftrong impregnation to the aqueous fluid ; 
from which, if the quantity of Dittany be large, there feparates, as 
Neuman obferves, a {mall portion of a yellowith effential oil, of a 
highly pungent aromatic tafte and {mell, and which ¢ongeals in the 
cold into the appearance of camphor.* 
Both the Greek and Roman writers have fabled this plant into 
great celebrity ; of which a fingle inftance, related by the Latin Poet, 
affords a beautiful illuftration.” | 
Though rarely ufed at this day, it certainly poffeffes, in a very con- 
fiderable degree, the ftimulant and aromatic qualities which characterize 
this clafs of plants; and has at leaft an equal hare of emmenagogue, 
carminative, and ftomachic virtue. : 
«Lewis. dec. , 
> Hic Venus, indigno nati concuffa dolore, 
Di&amnum genitrix Creted carpit ab Ida, 
Puberibus caulem foliis, et fore comantem 
Purpureo: non illa feris incognita capris — 
Gramina, cim tergo volucres hefére fagitte. 9 
: 7 fen. Ly, xat. grt. 
No. 7.—Part II. TEUCRIUM 
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