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foils. “ It gives out its aftringent matter equally to watery and {pi- 
rituous menftrua; its aromatic part moft perfectly to the latter. In 
diftillation with water it yields a {mall quantity of a whitifh concrete 
oily matter, of a very grateful fragrance.” * 
According to Buchhave it yields a greater proportion of watery 
than of refinous extract. - 3 
This plant, though little ufed in Britain, is held in great eftimation 
on the Continent, where its virtues have been long confidered as 
extremely various: but the character in which it has been lately 
received, and moft particularly celebrated fince the year 1780, is that 
of a febrifuge; thus Buchhave,’ Aafkow, Callifen, Bang, Schénheyder, 
and Tode, alfo Weber and Koch, Anjou,‘ &c. all bear teftimony of . 
its efficacy, adducing numerous inftances of its fuccefsful exhibition 
in obftinate intermittents, many of which yielded to the root of this 
plant, after the Peruvian bark had failed. , 
It is faid that a tincture of this root, made in the proportion of 
four ounces of the root digefted with a quart of brandy in a fand 
heat, and given tothe quantity of half an ounce or more, two, three, 
or four times a day, feldom failed to cureagues. Others gave it with 
equal fuccefs in decoction, powder, or eleCtuary, in the proportion 
in which the Cinchona bark is commonly employed. © 
This root has alfo been found an ufeful medicine in feyeral chronic — 
diforders, as a general tonic and aftringent ; and experiments made. by 
Buchhave fhow its antifeptic power to exceed that of Peruvian bark. 
a Lewis. l..c. > Ob. circa radicem Gei urb. 
© Diff. de nonnullorum febrifugorum virtute, et peciatim Gei urbani redicis efficacia. 
« Diff. de radice Caryophyllata. 
~ Medicinal planes of this order not introduced into this work, are 
SYSTEMATIC . OFFICINAL Encuisn NAME 
3 ilipendula. Filipendula Dropwort 
ee Come Ulmaria Meadow-fweet 
Geum rivale oe Geum rivale: Water Avens 
Potentilla Anferina — ted Cinquefoil 
ia vefca _Fragaria Strawberry 
phn cai ee Alchemilla TY aities- Mantle 
Alchemilla vulgaris 
DUMOSE. 
