44 8 
communicating to water and proof fplrit a brownim 
m 
I 
deep according to the proportions ; to rectified fpirit a fi 
Sen 
the A 
na, 
hich is in common ufe as a purgative, was firft know 
a 
G 
e 
by wh 
phylicians, Serapion and Mefue ; and the nrft ot 
r th 
ed is A&lu 
w h o 
d 
. .eaves- but foeaks of the fruit. Mefue likewife f< 
1 Q i 
the leaves, but ipeaks ot the truit. iYieme UKewne ieem.s ■ 
pod to the leaves, as being a more efficacious cathartic; 1 b 
not mention 
ns to nrefer the 
i 
contrary, tor it p 
the advantage of 
powerfully 
tl 
though 
fad 
it h 
as 
P 
the bowels, and of being without 
that naufeous bitternefs which the leaves are known to poflefs.* How 
bitternefs aids the operation of Senna is not eafily to be underfto 
but it is obferved by Br. Cull 
that " wh 
Senna was infufed 
fufum amarum, a lefs quantity of 
c 
was 
ffary for 
dofe than the limp 
lc 
fufi 
of 
>> k 
m 
rl 
\y 
e 
d 
that 
fr 
feldom op 
eouent ufe 
The fame author has 
without much griping. 
is a proof how much moft part of pracl: 
are 
ded by imitation and hab 
Senna however, when infufed 
large proportion of water, as a dram of the leaves to four ounces of 
ely ocean 
pain 
of 
bowel 
d to thofe who 
the 
Ser 
object to the bulkinefs of the dofe, may be found to anfvv 
purp 
c 
f 
or a coinm 
cath 
F 
g 
the tafte of 
Dr. Cull en recommends coriander feeds ; but for prev 
griping, he thinks the warmer aromatics 
rdamons 
inger 
> 
ould be more effectual 
- + 
Coll 
The formalae given of the Senna by 
iges, are thofe of an infufion, a powder, a tindhir 
echiary. Its dofe in fubftance is from a fcruple to a drar 
and an 
I 
h 
M. M. 
1 Folljculo quam foltis eft.efRcacior 5 praefertim (i is ex viridi nigricat, modice .amarus, 
fubadftringit abfolutus, recens, in quo femen amplum, compreflumj vetufiate enim 
exanimatur. Mefue D. Simp. L 2. c. 1.5. p. 65. 
* It has been an opinion generally received, that the footftalks of the leaves and 
twigs occafioned fevere griping ; but this Bergius denies, as in a number of inftances 
he found their effe&s uniformly fimilar to thofe of the leaves 
M. M. 
P>5 
L. c. 
1 L. c. p. 537 
Th 
C 
, v _jmmon Bladder Senna) are purgative, and 
may be fubftituted for thofe of Senna, according to Bartholin. Med. Dan. Domejt. p- 
126. Ed. 4. This is the more worthy of notice* as it is ufually cultivated for ornament 
: in this country 
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