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n d it lias been given fuccefsfully in mania, and in rabies canina. 
piftilled and neutralized with volatile alkali, it. forms the aqua ammo- 
nia acetate, or ipiritus Mindereri, a medicine of common ufe in 
fevers. By diftillation, however, the vinegar generally contrads an 
empyreumatic tafte, and is feldom found in a rightly concentrated 
ftate; when required to tie of great ftrength, it may be rendered fo 
by freezing it, after the manner we have directed for concentrating 
the juice of lemons. 
Vinegar is alfo much employed as a menilruum, or for extracting 
the virtues of other medicines. 
Mir- 
SACCHARUM OFFICINARUM. COMMON SUGAR CANE. 
Saccharum non purificatum, & purificatum. Pharm. Lond. 
STNONTMA. Arundo faccharifera. Baub. Pin. p. 18. Park 
■ 
Tbeat. p. 12 10. Arundo faccharina. Gerard. Emac.p. 38. Rat 
Hlji. p. 1278. Conf, Shanes Jamaica, torn, i. p. 108. /. 66 
Rumph. Herb. Amb. torn, 5. p. 186. /» 74./^ I. Hughes's Barbadt 
p. 244. /. 23.^ 1. Browne s Jamaica, p. 129. Ca%audinPhiL 
Tranf. vol. 69. P. I. /. 3. 
Clafs Triandria. Ord. Digynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 73 
Effl Gen. Ch. Cal. 2-valvis, lanugine involucratus. Cor. 2-valvis. 
* 
Hort. Kew. 
* 
Sft. Ch. S. floribus paniculatis, foliis planis. • ■ 
THE root is perennial, knotted, and fibrous : the ftem is fimple, or 
undivided, jointed, fmooth, about two inches in diameter, and rifes from 
eight to eighteen feet in height : the leaves are long, fimple, fword- 
fliaped, and embrace the ftem : the flowers are fmall, and produced in 
rminal loofe panicle : the calyx is a gluma of two valves, which are 
ong, or lance-fhaped, pointed, erect, concave, equal, and the bafe 
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