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aromatic flavor, besides a small share of their proper- 

 ties ; but by the habitual use of these liquors all the 

 good effects are destroyed. The hop-beer made with 

 molasses, hops and yeast, is a better liquor still, and 

 an agreeable, refreshing, tonic beverage. 



As a medicinal article hops have been praised by 

 many physicians, and employed in Nephritis, Gravel, 

 Gout, Phrenitis, Alopecia, Luxations, articular Rheu- 

 matism, Dyspepsia, Scrophula, Rachitis, Eresypelas, 

 Debility, Strangury, Hysteric and Nervous com- 

 plaints. Cancer, &:c. As tonic, stomachic and corro- 

 borant, they are available in diseases depending on 

 debility or a loss of tone in the stomach ; but their 

 powers are weak in this as well as all the other pro- 

 perties ascribed to ihem, which, however, may ren- 

 der them useful vvh"en imTtTfemedies are Teqttired. 

 As a narcotic and sedative they operate mildly, and 

 are often preferable to opium : they induce sleep with- 

 out producing the bad effects of opium. Even the 

 external application of hops, produces thesame effect, 

 and a pillow of hops is a popular mode of promoting 

 sleep Poultices and fomentations of hops are common 

 applications for painful swellings. Their antilithie 

 and diuretic property is questionable, they can at ut- 

 most act as palliative, and are sometimes injurious; 

 but available in the strangury produced by Cantha- 

 rides. Besides allaying pain and producing sleep, 

 hops have been found to reduce pulsations from 96 to 

 60, while rendering the pulse more firm. They are 

 useful in the weakness and watchfulness of hysteric 



patients. An ointment of hops is a palliative in the 



