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This fucculent plant is deftitute of odour, but to the tafte it is: 
bitterifh, and fomewhat acrid. Diofcorides * fpeaks of an ointment 
made of the bruifed herb, mixed with lard, as an ufeful application 
to difeufs ftrumous fwellings; and Gafpari,” an Italian, adopted a 
fimilar practice with great faccefs. He alfo informs us, that a decoc- 
tion of the plant, employed i in the,way of fomentation, was found 
to. be very efficacious in {wellings of the glands of the neck; which 
followed a certain epidemic at Verona. Dr. Cullen, howctet, relates 
that he tried the Aparine in fome glandular acme but without 
deriving any advantage,° 
It is faid by Mayerne, .that tliree ounces of the j juice. of the plant, 
taken twice a day in wine, were experienced to be an ufeful aperient 
and diuretic in incipient dropfies. But the character in which the 
Aparine has of late been chiefly efteemed, is that of an antifcorbutics, 
for this purpofe, a tea-cupful of its exprefed j juice is. to be taken, 
every morning for nine or ten days. When the frefh plant cannot 
be procured, it may be ufed in a dried ftate as tea.’ 
Other fpecies of Galium have been ufed: for the purpofes of medi-- 
cine, efpecially the G. verum, or yellow lady’ s bed-ftraw, the flowers: 
of which have been recommended in hyfteric and epileptic complaints. 
It has been afferted, that thefe flowers contain an acid, which coagu- 
lates milk; but neither Bergius, Cullen, nor Young, obferved this. 
effedt from them,, after repeated'trials.. 
* M. M. Lib. 3. cap. 104. 
» See Offervazioni Storiche,. Mediche, Sc. 173%. p. 17: 
te A, AG week 2s e375 
* See Med. &F Phil. Commentaries. vol..5. p. 326. Alfo Edward’s Treatife on the> 
Goofe-grafs, or Clivers, and its efficacy in - cure of the moft inveterate Scurvy. 
ee . 
Gis aiedictonl plants of this Order, are’ 
SysreMmaTic NAMES: Orricitat.. ss Wo rsu. 
Galium verum -Galium luteum _ Yellow Ladies bedftraw- 
Galium Mollugo. Galium album White ditto 
Afperula odorata : Matrifylva Sweet Woodroof. 
N .12— Patt Ik 2P  CONGLOMERATZ.. 
