Found to be very difficult of digeftion m the ifomach, for if 
raw, or imperfeaiy boiled, they ufually pafs through the body wi 
fullering any material change.* It 
is on this account, probably, that 
raw carrots have been given to children as a vermifuge. The expreffed 
juice, or a decodion of thefe roots, has been recommended in cal- 
com 
>laiat&, and as a gargle for infants in apthous affed 
-or excoriations of the mouth ; b and a poultice of feraped carrot h 
application to p 
j uiaU 
ia 
been found an ufeful 
cerous and pu 
The feeds J of wild Carrot, which obtain a place in the Ma 
"Medica, have a light aromatic fmell, and a warm acrid tafte. " Water, 
<digefted on the feeds, becomes impregnated with their fmell, but takes 
up very little of their tafte: in diftillation or evaporation, it elevat 
whole of their fmell and aromatic warmth : on diftillinp- laree 
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quantities, a frmall portion of yellowifh effential oil is obtained, of a 
ely pungent tafte, and fmeiling ftrongly of the daucus. 
m 
/ 
Redified fpirit takes up the whole of their virtue by digeftion, and 
elevates little in diftillation : the remaining extrad fmells weakly, and 
iaftes ftrongly of the feeds." 4 Thefe feeds poifefs, though not in a 
very confiderable degree, the aromatic qualities common to thofe 
of moft of the umbelliferous plants, and hence have long been deemed 
and emmenagogue ; but they are chiefly efteemed for 
ar m i n 
\ 
■#*, 
their diuretic powers, and for their utility in calculous and neph 
complaints, 6 in which an infufion of three fpoonfuls of the feeds 
pint of boiling water has been recommended ; or the feeds may be 
"* 
fermented in malt liquor, which receives from them an ag 
flavour, refembling that of " 
On which account I have employed them as a means of afcertaining the tim< 
Which food takes to pafs through the trad of the alimentary canal." Withering^ L c. 
b V. Rofenftein andBofch. 
This ufe of the Carrot poultice was firft difcoyered by Sulzer, (fee Journal dt 
P- 68.J fince which its good effects are related by Gibfon fin Med, 
Mt 
Obf & Inquir. vol. 4. J and others who have very generally found it to mitigate the pain 
and abate the ftench of foul cancerous ulcers. 
a Lewis, M. M. p. 271. 
• In oppofrtion to this opinion, Dr. Cullen fays, « We have (een the femen dauoi 
lyiyeltns employed in calculous cafes in confiderable quantities, and for a length of time, 
&ut never found its diuretic power any wife remarkable," M. M. vol it, p. 552. 
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