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proof fp 
fro 
a pound and a half of the dried 
on of 
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b 
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perhaps lefs efficacious, 
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alfo flop vomiting, depend 
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n the . ftomach 
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cafes of vomiting in which it 
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f. 
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aggravates the difea 
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h 
d 
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of mint in warm water, atrrees b 
d I think jnflly 
i 
n. 
t> 
than the diflilled water, which is often fomewhat empy 
er with iiiQ itoma 
• 
h 
L 
obfer 
«* « 4-1 
that 
of milk : and hen 
faid by fome to prevent th 
ce 
has been recommended to be ufed alone; 
diets, and even in catanlafms and fomentations for refolving 
coagulated milk in the breafts : upon experiment, th 
digeifed in a flrong infufi 
of mint, could 
d 
be perceb 
f 
y otherwife affecled than by common water ; b 
be 
ch 
mm 
were f< 
ricerate, 
qua! quantity of the 6 
ii 
nnk kept 
d not coagulate n 
ear 
r 
oo n as 
r lhe offi 
prep 
t*'1 ^"* 
fun pi 
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* In proof of the emmenagogue pov/er of mint, Linnaeus Informs us, that a woman,, by. 
the frequent ufe of it, became fub|e£t to monorrhagia. Vide DtJJlde Mentha uju, p, 9; 
b 
1 
' Lewis } M.AL p. 419* 
Cullen r M. M. vol. ii. p. 149. 
d 
jL*» £ ♦ 
fig* as thev will d 
iC 
e We are told, that " when cows have eaten the mentha arvei 
argety at the end of fummer, when the pailures are bare, and hunger diftrefles-thetn, 
thed 
ds 
be made to yield cheefej a circumft 
With* U c. 
MENTHA 
