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therefore is properly employed as a condiment with uur - 
food. If it be infufed in water, and a portion of this infor? 1 
" taken with a large draught of warm water, it readilv 
" emetic, and may cither be employed by itfelf to excite vn P v U * 
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con into the ltomach, it proves ftimulant to the nervous (Vft 1 
d is thereby ufeful in pally ; and if employed in large quantiTv 
f ( , • u - i Wh r le b ° dy : and heKh 7 « Proves often 
uleful in chronic rheumatifm, whether arifing from fcurv 
other caufes. Bergius e has given us a particular method 
proves heating to 
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biting this root, which is by cutting it down, without bruifi 
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into very fmall pieces ; and thefe, if fwallowed without chewW 
may be taken down in large quantity, to that of a table fpoonful 
and the author alleges, that in this way, taken every rooming for 
a month together, this root has been extremely ufeful in arthritic 
caies ; which however I fuppofe to have been of the rheumatic 
kind. It would feem that in this manner employed, analagons to 
the ufe of unbrmfed muftard-feed, it gives out in the ftomach its 
iubtle volatile parts, that ftimulate coniiderably without inflaming. 
™? matter of Horfe-radifh, like the fame matter of the other 
iiliquole plants, carried into the blood veflels, paffes readily into 
the kidneys, and proves a powerful diuretic, and is therefore ufeful 
in dropfy; and we need not fay, that in this manner, by promoting 
both urine and perfpiration, it has been long known as one of the 
molt powerful antifcorbutics.' , d 
i t S n if, B l ?« ™ aU Me {\ p ; 5S9 ' where ** adds > " Agit fecure, ventriculum vix cale- 
it, mil fob fine curs. Multos fcorbuticos hoc etiam regimineperquamlevatos^i." 
Th 
Mat. Med. vol. is, p 
• mat. Med. vol. is, p. 169. 
of Yht Stndtft^S S r ! nS }. *H an iBfUf ' 0n ° f Horfe - radi{h in milk makeS * 
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