435 
Many dyfpept 
pi 
ftomach, are more effe&ually relieved by b 
though arifmg from debility of the 
Bark 
organs of digefiion. And the Gentian, joined with 
than by Peru 
hence may be inferred their iupeiior tonic power on th 
tormentil or galls 
we 
told by Dr. Cull 
b 
equ 
P 
g intermittents, if given in fufficient quantity 
ftantly fucceeded 
As a limple b 
the G 
is 
dered 
more grateful to the 
ftomach by the addition of an aromatic, and for this purpofe 
peel is commonly employed. The officinal preparations of th 
e 
fi 
comp 
the infufum gentiana? compofitum, 8c tin&u 
ph. L. and the infufum amarum, vinum amarum, tin&ura amara, 
ceias the extract 
five elixir flomachicum,*ph.E. and by both p 
civ 
directed 
9 
M. M. p. v. if. p. 7 
* Dr. Cullen obferves, that this is the fame as Stoughton's elixir. 
About forty-five years ago, a poifonous root was difcovered in fome of th< 
Gentian brought to London, not however before its fatal effe&s had been e; 
(See Dr. Brocklefky 
Th 
Tranf. 
45- P 
This root was probably 
G 
bitternefs, and 
ihed from the latter by having a ftrong fmell, and bein 
Th 
e 
CHIRONIA CENTAURIUM 
CENTAURY 
STNONYMA, 
Ce 
m 
- 
Pharm. Land. & Edinb 
• • 
an 
. 1092. 
taurium minus vulg 
Synop 
86 
Bauh. Pin. p 
C 
Park. Tbeat. p. 272. Centaurium p 
vum 
Gerard Emac.p. 547; Gentiana caule dichotomo 
fundibuliformibus, 
648 
Gentiana C 
uing. p. 102. 
Chironia Cer 
Flor. hojid. L 
Light/, Flor. Scot. p. 152. 
; iloribus 
quinquefidis. Hall. Stirp. Helv. n. 
Lin. Sp. Plant, p. 332. Pludf. Flor. 
Fl 
Dan. Icon. 6 
• 
Withering Boi. Arrang. p 
/ 
2 3 
1-1 
Cm 
s 
47 
Clafs Pentand 
