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continued for fome time, they have often proved falutary in begin« 
ning obftru@tions of the vifcera, in jaundices, cachexies, hypochon- 
driacal and other chronical diforders.” ¢ 
A decoction of this herb, with others of the like kind, in whey, 
and rendered purgative by a fuitable addition of polychreft falt, 
was found an ufeful remedy in cafes of biliary calculi,° and promifes — 
advantage in many complaints requiring what have been termed 
attenuants and refolvents: The virtues of Succory, like thofe of 
dandelion, refide in its milky juice; and in moft of the plants of the 
order Semiflofculofe, a juice of a fimilar nature is to be found: 
therefore what has been before obferved of the effects of taraxacum, | 
will, in a great meafure, apply to the Cichorium; and we are war- 
ranted in faying, that the expreffed juice of both thefe plants, taken 
in large dofes, frequently repeated, has been found an efficacious 
remedy in phthifis, pulmonalis, as well as in the various other 
affections above mentioned. 
The feeds of the Cichorium, which are fmall, angular, and of a 
brown colour, are reckoned among the four fmaller cooling feeds, 
@ Lewis. 1. c. 
* Van Swieten. Comment. T, iii. p. 137 
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