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purpofe; and it is more effectually done by triturating the Cam 
phire with mucilage alone, or with a portion of fweet almonds 
and diffufing it again by means of mucilage into an emulfion. 
^ It has been thought that the virtues may be increafed by ex- 
hibiting along with it a portion of nitre ; but in many trials I have 
not been fenfible of the benefit derived from the nitre, which, in 
any quantity that can be conveniently employed, has' little effect 
the fyftem. It is with more probability alledged, that vinegar 
with Camphire is p£ fervice. Vinegar certainly gives 
" the beft means of correcting the tafte of Camphire, and feems 
" even to render it lefs difagreeable to the ftomach ; and we may 
allow that both by its refrigerant and antifeptic powers, it may 
contribute fomewhat to the virtues of the Camphire." k 
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SYNONYM J. Gentiana. Pharm. Loud. &f Edinb. Gentiana 
major. Gerard Emac. p. 432. Rati Hift. p. 716. Gentiana 
major lutea. Bauh. Pin, p. 187. Park Pamd.p. 350. Tournf. 
Inft. p. 80. Gentiana vulgaris major, Ellebori albi folio. J. Bauh. 
Hift. vol. Hi. p. 520. Gentiana caule foliofo, foliis ovatis nervofis. 
floribus rotatis verticillatis. Hall. Stirp. Helv. n. 637. Icon 
Miller s Figures, tab. 139. Jig. 2. 
Clafs Pentandria. Ord. Digynia. Lin. Gen. Plant 
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EJT* ^n. Ch. Cor. monopetala. Caps. 2-valvis, i-locularis. 
Reeeptaculis 2, longitudinalibus. 
Sp. Ch. G. corollis fubquinquefidis rotatis verticillatis, calycibus 
fpathaceis. 
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