I he Foeniculum of the Latins is fuppofed to be the M*f«V» of tne 
i 
Greeks, by whom it was highly efteetned for promoting the fecretion 
of milk, c an opinion which the experience of fome modern authors 
has tended to confirm. The feeds are alfo fuppofed to be ftomachic 
and carminative, but thefe, and indeed all the other effects afcribed 
to Fennel, as depending upon their ftimulant and aromatic qualities, 
muft be lefs conliderable than thofe of dill, anife, and 
though termed one of the four greater hot feeds. 
caraway, 
chAlfion fays maybe called alimentum medicamen- 
tofum, was by Boerhaave thought to poffefs all the virtue of Ginfeng, 
now wholly 
one of the five 
penent roots, is 
(=> 
fweet, with 
ry little aromatic 
._ d which ranks 
difregarded. To the tart 
and faid to be pectoral and di 
By the London Pharmacopoeia a fimple diftilled water is directed 
to be prepared from the feeds of Fennel, which alfo enter fome other 
officinal compoiitions* 
■• Hippoc. DeMorb. Mul. Lib. I. Se£l. $. p. 60S. Fees. Diofcorid. M. M. Lib, 
3. c. 81. p. 205. Sarac. 
d 
Bergius, Nov. Aft. Up/, vol. i. p. 104. c Left, on the M. M. vol. i. p. 385. 
-m .,'..("w'-*i*^ wn**^; 
DAUCUS CAROTA 
WILD CARROT, or BIRD's NEST 
SYNONYMS 
Daucus fylveftris. Pharm. Lond. & Edin 
• 
Paftinaca fylveftris tenuifolia Diofcoridis 
Daucus officinarum 
Bauh. P, 
5 
vulg 
Paftinaca fylveftris 
ifol 
Raii Synop 
Theat. p. 9 
Gerard Emac. p 
8 
218 
Park 
« 
Rait Hift. p. 465. Daucus involucris, cavis com 
ttmnibus pinnatis, peculiaribus lineari lanceolatis. 
Helv . n. 
Scot. p. 
746 
56. 
Daucus Carota 
Hudf. Ang 
Withering Bot. Arr, p 
Hall. Stirp. 
Lightfl 
74 
112. 
fc. Fkr. Dan, p. 723 
Re I h an, Cantab, p 
* 
Paftinaca 
