in-euring scrofula; and the accounts above mentione: 
with no other view than to communicate: all I have nett able-to: 
learn relative to it. 
| William Withering, Esq. editor of the 5th edition of his fathers 
work on British plants, says; “ the whole plant yields a strong aro- 
“ matic odour.* ‘This seems remarkable, because the British plant 
is represented as being extremely fetid. That of the United States 
differs some little, though perhaps not specifically, from the foreign 
vegetable, and is certainly not fetid, though possessed of a peculiar, 
and, to most people, a disagreeable odour. The smell has nothing 
aromatic in it. I have heard that the flowers (in which the aroma 
resides, if there be any in the plant) have been collected, dried, and 
mixed with the common chamomile of the shops, for sale. 
From the experience I have had with this plant, I am induced. 
to believe, that it can be made useful as a bitter only ; and it is in- _ 
deed a strong and active bitter. Like some other articles. of this 
class, as the common chamomile, a strong decoction, given in the 
dose of a tea-cup full, will produce copious vomiting and sweat- 
ing. This circumstance induced me to use it as an assistant ope- 
rative drink, after the administration of an»emetic. And im this 
way I have found it extremely beneficial, uniformly encouraging 
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* Vol. 3. p. 910. 
