44° 
flat, ft 
fl 
I 
P 
ar 
I furrounded with a membr 
June and Jul) 
g 
Tl 
ie 
s 
Ho 
plant, which is a native of Spain and Portugal, appears by the 
.tain by Mr, 
K 
h 
been 
ft cultivated in I 
Gerard in 
London 
7 
a 
T 
feeds 
D 
are 
e cl. e d f o 
fe by 
a 
d Edinburgh Pharmacopoeias; they hav 
avc 
a mo 
A 
war 
pun 
fte 
d an aromatic fn 
the 
tely 
but like that of the 
plant, not of the mod agreeable k 
a b 
u 
of their virtues eith 
boiling 
whole fl 
j 
ft 
d 
hales 
g 
Water extracts very ] 
on for many hours, 
with the watery vap 
In 
and may be collected by dift 
r i ii • _._ _.C 
fiderable portion oi pungent 
ife 
Thefe fe 
D'il 
but not by diftill 
extract 
s 
impart their fl 
Along with the water arifes a 
al oil, fmelling ftrongly of the 
<5tifted fpirit by digeftion, 
in th 
w 
a&ive part of the feed 
em 
e 
y> c 
The feeds and the plant itfelf were formerly much ufed in medi-i 
e. and from the time of Diofcorides have been efteemed for their 
carminative and hypnotic pow 
mended in flatulent colics, and < 
d 
? 
and therefore h 
b 
recom- 
from a laxity of the ft 
id 
ch 
a 
K* 
JL 
n 
fymptoms proceed 
&> 
They 
are 
th 
feeds of this clafs 
alfo faid 
promot 
o 
^ 
efFec- 
the fecretion of 
milk 
At this time however the feeds of Dill are feldom employed, 
though a fimple diftilled water prepared from them is directed both 
by the London and Edinburgh Pharmacopoeias. 
a Hort. Kew. 
r 
b Virgil does not feem to have been of this opinion 
NarciiTum & florem jungit bene olentis anethi. 
c Lewis, M.M. p, 58 
Foreftus fpeaks highly of their ufe in allaying vom 
Ecl. 2. v. 45 
Oper. Lib. 6 
obj: 29. w Lib. 18. obf. 
lurray, App. Med. vol. i. p. 289 
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ANETHUM FCENICULUM. 
