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therefore to them this pulp is rarely given alone, but ufually conjoined 
with fome of the brifker purgatives. It has been obferved by Vallif- 
nieri, that its purgative quality is remarkably promoted by manna ; 
but this effect was never difcovered in the trials made by Dr. Cullen, 
in whofe opinion the Caflia pulp is much of the fame nature as the 
fructus acido dulces ; and he fays, " it would certainly be proper 
for our country apothecaries to know that the pulp of prunes might 
be employed in the place of the more expenfive and precarious 
By the ufe of Caflia, it has been remarked, that the urine becomes 
of a green or blackifh colour;* 1 but Bergius relates, that a young man 
took an ounce three fucceffive mornings without producing the leaft 
change in the colour of his urine. 1 
The officinal preparation of this drug is the electuarium e cafli 
it is alfo an ingredient in the eledhiarium e fenna, or e. 
vum 
g M. M. vol. it. p. 506.. 
* By Senncrtus, Lofecke, Boerhaave, Lewis, &c. 
1 M. M. p. 341. Gmeiin alfo denies this effeti of Caffia. Dijfi de Rbab. p. 30.- 
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ORIGANUM VULGARE. WILD MARJORAM 
SYNONYAIA. Origanum.. Pharm. Lond.- Origanum fylveftre 
Bauh. Pin. p. 223.- Origanum anglicum. Gerard Emac. p. 666 
Origanum vulgare fpontaneum; J. Bauh. Hift. til. p. 236. Rai 
Hift. p. 539. Synop. p. 236. Origanum foliis ovatis, umbelli; 
coloratis, ftaminibus exfertis. Hall. Hift. Stirp. Flelv. n. 233. Orig 
num vulgare.. Hud/. Flor.Ang. p. 262. ed. 2d. Light/. Fl 
317. Withering BoL Aw. p. 62.1. Curtis Flor . Lond. 338., 
Clafs Didynamia.. Ord. Gymnofpermia.. Lin. Gen. Plant. 726. 
* 
EJ/l Gen. Ch. Strobtlus tetragonus,. fpicatus, calyces colligens. 
Sp^ Ch t - O- fpicis fubrotundis paniculatis conglomeratis, bracleis 
calyce longioribus ovatis, 
THE 
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