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f 
beneatli greenifli : tHe two ftyles are tapering, fpreading, and a little 
fhorter than the ftamina ; ' the ftigmata are fimple and obtufe. 
The 
flov^' 
rs 
appear in May and July 
Mafterwort may be confidered as a native of Scotland, Mr. Liehtfo 
g found it growing in feveral places on the banks of the Clyd 
It is frequently 
ardens ; but the root» which 
part direded for medical ufe, is greatly inferior to that produced in 
the South of Europe, efpecially in 'mountainous fituations : hence 
the ^ lliops are commonly fupplied with it from the Alps and 
cs» 
This 
root has a fragrant 
fmell 
and a bitterifh 
pung 
glowing warmth in the mouth for fome time after 
Its virtues are extraded both by watery and fpi 
tafte, 
t has 
been chewed. 
menftrua, but more completely by 
This plant, as its name V imports, Was formerly thought to be of 
fmgular efficacy, and was preferred to moft of the other aromatics. 
for its alexipharmic and fudorific powers. In fome difeafes " it was 
employed with fo much fuccefs as to be dillinguifhed by the name of 
At prefent, however, phyficians confider 
merely as an aromatic, and it is of courfe fuperfeded by 
a 
divinum remedium 
many of that clafs of a fup 
character 
Half 
a dram of the 
fubftance, and one dram of it in infufion, is the dofe direded 
« cc 
Imperatoria ob raras & praeftantes facultates nominata fuit." Vide Bauh, 
Pin. f. c. 
''The difeafes, in which it has been chiefly recommended, are Hyfteria, Hydro 
Cohca, Paralyfis, Vermes, Febres intermlttentes. It has been alfo ufed as a fialagog 
C. Hoffman. Officin. L. 2. c. ii6. 
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