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LILIUM CANDIDUM. 
them; by this means a most excellent water may be obtained 
for hypochondriasis and hysteria, which every one does not 
‘know. ‘The dose is from one to two or three spoonfuls, both 
for a preservative and a cure.” — Fr. Hoffm. 
The bulb of the White Lily, which consists of imbricated 
fleshy scales, is without odor, but has a peculiar, disagreeable, 
somewhat bitter and mucilaginous taste. It contains much 
mucilage,/and a small portion of an acrid principle, which is 
dissipated or destroyed by roasting or boiling. In the recent 
state, it has been employed with advantage in dropsy. Boiled 
with water or milk it forms a good emollient cataplasm, 
more useful in domestic and popular, than in the regular 
practice. 
“Gerard informs us, that William Goderus, Serjeant-Sur- 
geon to Queen Elizabeth of England, found, by experience, 
that the root of White Lily stamped and strained with white 
wine, and given to drink for three or four days successively, 
expelled the poison of the pestilence, and caused it to break 
out in blisters on the skin; that the same learned gentle- 
man had cured many of the dropsy with the juice of it, 
tempered with barley-meal, and baked in cakes, taking care 
that his patients did eat of it for a month or six weeks with 
their meat, and no other bread during that time.” 
Vegetation, when assisted by human contrivances, is the 
best possible means of improving the air, and rendering a 
country fitter for the abode of mankind. Cultivation removes 
