\ 
409 
7 
for its mod eflfed 
agia, and in immoderate uterine evacuations: and 
t> 
lions of foreign 
Ham 
k 
£> 
phyfi 
thefe 
pi 
* 
we h 
LA, 
i 
but alfo tho 
ve not only the afl 
e of Doctors W 
d 
» 
The flowers, which are extremely fragrant, and much ufed in r>e 
fumes, have a warm tafte, accompanied 
nefs. " They yield their flavour by 
d 
dined 
gree of b 
i 
by 
diftillation both to fp 
d 
d 
> 
and 
the bitter matter is diffolved 
on 
evap 
the decodion, remains entire 
trad 
u 
An oil, diftilled from thefe flowers, is brought from It 
in th 
the name of 
ffent 
The 
of the Orange-tree have a bitterim tafte. and 
rubbed between th 
e 
fingers and thumb, manifeft confiderable fi 
t> 
grancy ; like the petals they are alfo befet with- minute gland 
fecrete an effential oil, and are eafily difcovered on holding 
betwixt the eye and the light. Both the leaves and the flow 
m 
have b 
gr 
eft 
fpecially the fo 
epilepfy, and various other convulfive diford 
feems to have firft made publick this virtue of the 
leaf 
but 
Wefterhoe 
remedy fo 
f, who 
bout thirty 
years ago, tranf mitted an account of their efficacy to De Haen," wh 
alfo 
penenced th 
favourit 
V 
g 
effecls : after which th 
b 
ecame a 
d numerous inftances of their fuccefl 
s 
thefe complaints are publiihed by feveral German phyficians. 
Tl 
ieir 
employment, h 
in th 
fs fuccefs 
Cull 
q 
the dof( 
} 
s country has b< 
iven by Profeftbr: 
the powdered leaves is from half 
proofs of which, are 
p 
d 
and 
to a 
dram, two or three times a day, and proportionably in decod 
The 
Pharm 
y 
unripe fruit formerly had a pi 
ceia, under the name of Aurantia curafl 
th 
Edinburgf 
or Curaflc 
* 
oranges. The Limon Bergamotta of the Italians, from wh 
th 
fie 
fo 
approaches 
f* 
K, 
arly to the Orange th 
the lemon, as its leaves have winged footftalks 
1 See his Works^ p. 662. k De prax. reg. p. 20. „ 
called oleum diftillatum florum naghae. m Bergius ftates the former to b< 
\at+ Med. T. 6. p. 305. fqq 
Difp. p 
latter analeptic. M. M. vol il. p, 638 
139. Alfo 
tonic and the 
fift 
e 
by M 
No. 
/, 
by 
c. 
? 
37 
Clinical Experiments, p 
6 M 
Obf.Pracl.p.^. — S 
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