467 
fmell and tafle 
It 
active principle is an efTe 
oil, of a more 
than that of mint, coming over nattily with water 
beginning of the diflill 
d 
• , - * 
high ly-r edified fpirit 
when newly drawn, 
age turning brownifh 
riling alfo in 
L and of 
g 
tafle very pungen 
yellowifh colour, with a call of 
: part wit 
ftrong fmell 
Th 
Pulegium 
ly poffefTes th 
gen 
prop 
other mints : it is fuppofed, however, to be of lefs effi 
of 
flomachic, bnt more ufeful as a carminative 
cacy 
d emmenagogue, and 
is more commonly employed in hyflerical affections. We are told 
by Boyle, b and others, that it has been fuccefsfully ufed in the hoop- 
but the chief purpofe to which it has long been admi- 
g 
h 
niftered is promoting the uterine evacuation. With this 
Haller recommends an infufion of the herb with fleel, in white wine 
which he never knew to fail of fuccefs. c However 
the opinion 
of Dr. Cullen, mint is in every refpecl: a more effectual remedy than 
Pennyroyal ; and " nothing but the neglect of all attempts to eftablifh 
principles could have made phyficians 
medicine different from the other fpecie 
remark, it may he obferved, that this 
now than formerly. 
Its officinal preparations are a fimple water 
think of this as a peculiar 
and conformably to this 
: is lefs frequently ufed 
tial oil. 
9 
> 
and an effen 
Lewis > M. M, p. 524 
b 
See his Works, Vol. iv. 
quod me nunquam fefellet. 'Vide* I 
p. 475. Sauvages NqJqU T. 2. P. 2, p. 157 
c 
He Jay 
MaU Med* vol, ii» p, 150 
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