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used in making stuffing for meat, in days when such stuffing 
was called a pudding. 
‘Let the corporal 
Come sweating under a breast of mutton stuffed with pudding.” 
Old Play. 
Treadwell tells that the Pennyroyal was especially put into 
hogs’ puddings, which were composed of flour, with currants, 
and spices, stuffed into the entrail of a hog. The fresh herb 
Pennyroyal yields about 1 per cent of a volatile oil containing 
oxygen, with other diffusible matters. Folk talk in Devonshire 
of “ Organ broth,” and ‘‘ Organ tea,”’ which are much in favour 
with women. The oil of Pennyroyal, if applied externally, will 
promptly relieve severe neuralgic pain. Dryden, in Ovid's 
Metamorphoses, writes to this effect :— 
“ They rubbed it o’er with newly-gathered mint, 
A wholesome herb that breathed a grateful scent.” 
“ Organ tay,” say the Devonshire peasants, “ sweentened wi’ 
’oney is a cabbical cure vur a cold ef yii putt’th a drap ov 
zometheng short in’t.” ‘“‘ Hillwort”’ was another old name 
oi the herb. 
Peppermint (Mentha piperita), or ‘“‘ Brandy Mint,” is of 
universal acquaintance among all classes through its “ sweeties,” 
drops, lozenges, and comforting, fragrant ‘ water,” being 
“familiar in our mouths as household words.” The herb is 
so called because of its peppery, pungent taste, and smell. 
Preparations of Peppermint when swallowed diffuse warmth 
in the stomach, acting as carminative stimulants, with some 
considerable power of allaying the distress of colic, flatulent 
distension, spasm, or oppressive food. This is through the 
potent volatile oil, of which the herb yields 1 per cent as Mint 
camphor. . 
** Anise and mint, with strong Molian sway 
Intestine storms of flatulence allay.” 
There are two sorts of the Peppermint herb—black, and white— 
of which the first furnishes the most, but not the best oil. As 
an antiseptic and destroyer of germs, this oil is rerfarkably 
efficacious; on which account it is advised for inhalation by 
consumptive patients, so that the volatile preservative vapour 
may reach remote diseased parts of the ultimate lung passages, 
and may heal by destroying the morbid germs which are keeping 
