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drachm of the juice, in six ounces of water, may 
be taken with entire safety. | ee ny 
Dr. Withering, as quoted by Dr. Pulteney in 
the Linnean transactions, asserts, that the dis« 
tilled water of Ranunculus flammula is an emetic 
more instantaneous and less offensive than sul- 
phate of zinc. I know not in what publication of 
Dr. W. this statement is made, but the mace 
appears to me not improbable. Acrid substances. 
such as mustard, pepper, and horse-radish, if 
swallowed in large quantities, excite the stomach 
to relieve itself by vomiting. An objection, 
however, exists against the distilled water, owing 
to the uncertainty of its strength; which must 
yary in proportion to the quantity of the plant 
employed, the time occupied in distillation, and 
the subsequent time for which the fluid is kept. 
Krapf states that R. auricomus and R. lanugi- 
nosus are so free from acrimony, that they are 
eaten as greens or sallads. All the species lose 
their pungency in boiling, so that even the R. 
sceleratus, one of the most acrid, is used for the 
same purpose. | 
_ Grazing cattle pheigelly. adsl the ‘ae of 
this genus, which grow among grass, as far. as 
it is possible for them todo it. Accordingly we 
observe the flowers of Ranunculi left untouched, 
