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nal qualities. Its extract forms a very neat pre- 
paration, and is by no means unpleasant to the 
taste. Dr. Fothergill tells us, that “in tedious 
chronic coughs, incident to people i in years, a de- 
coction of it has been of service. It consists of a 
lubricating mucilage combined with some degree 
of aromatic warmth, ” 
Ginseng i is principally ‘sold 2 our druggists 
as a masticatory, many people hayi ‘ing acquired an 
habitual fondness for chewing it. ‘At is certainly 
one of the most innocent articles for this purpose. 
BOTANICAL REFERENCES. 
_Panax quinquefolium, Lin. Sp. pl.—Mucnavx, Flora, ii, 256. 
—Porsu, i i. 191.—Woopvinte, Med. Bot. i. t. 58.—Botanical 
Mag. t. 1025.—Aureliana Canadensis, Caressy, Car. Suppl. 2g : 
16.—Breynivs in Prod. rar. p. 52.—Araliastrum foliis: ternis 
quinquepartitis, Ginseng sen Ninsin_ officinarum.—Trew, Fir. 
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. MEDICAL REFERENCES. | 
-Bovrvetin, Hist. de? Acad. 1797.—Jarrovx, tr.in Phul. Trans. 
xxviii, 237.—Larrreav, Memoires concernant la precieuse plante 
de Ginseng. Paris, 1718.—Sarrasin, Hist. Acad, 1718.—Katm, 
travels, tr. iii. 114,—OsBEck, China, p- 145.—HEBERDEN, Med, 
Trans, iii. 34,—FOTHERGILL, Gent. Mag. xxiii. 209.— CULLEN, 
Mat. Med. Vol. ii. &ee 
