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troducecT into the meatus auditorius, has been found an efFi 
remedy 
Garlick may be adminiftered in different forms; fwallowing the 
clove entire, after being dipped in oil, is recommended as the molt 
efFedual,or where this cannot be done, by cutting it into pieces without 
bruifing it, may be found to anfwer equally well, producing thereby 
no mieafinefs in the fauces. On being beaten up, and formed Into pills 
le a&ive parts of this medicine foon evaporate: this we notice on 
of Dr. Cullen, who thinks that Lewis has f 
grofs error, in .fuppofmg dried Garlic more a&ive than frefh. 
The fyrup and oxymel of Garhck, which formerly had a plaee i 
the Britilh Pharmacopoeias, are now expunged. 
* Bergius for this purpofe recommends the juice of Garlick dropped on cotton. I.e. 
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MENTHA PIPERITA. PEPPER-MINT. 
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K**l 
STNO NTMA. Mentha piperitis. Pharm. Lend. & Ed 
ino\ 
Mentha fpicis brevioribus & habitioribus, foliis menthae fufcae, fa- 
pore fervido piperis. RaiiSynop.p.i^. Hift.v.iii.p. 284. Mentha 
piperita. Hud/on Fior. Ang. p. 251. Withering Bat. Arrang. p. 
599. Relhan Fior. Cantab, p. 223. Icon. V. Knigge Dif.de mentha 
piperitide. 
Didynamia. Ord. Gymnofpermia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 713. 
Gm Ch. Corolla ■ fubssqualis, 4-fida, lacinia latiore ema: 
Stamina erecla. dift. 
g 
Sp. Ch. M. fi or. capitatis, fbLovatis petiolatis, iiaminibus corolla 
brevioribus. 
THE root is perennial, creeping, and furnifhed with many fmall 
tores : the Hems are ereci:, fquare, jointed, ftriated, fomewhat branched 
towards the top, and rife about two feet m; height : the leaves 
egg-fliaped, ferrated, pointed, nerved, of a dark green colour, and 
itandm pairs upon footftalks : the flowers are fmall, purple, and pro. 
duced 
