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flowers, by drying them in the summer, and, in the 

 time of vintage, mixing them with grapes when, 

 pressed. This wine is prescribed in cephalic dis- 

 orders ; and also as a cordial in the cardiac passions, 

 and lipothymy. 



The flowers as well as the roots, when dried and 

 pulverized, are a celebrated P tannic. Rail. His. 

 Plant. Its errhine properties are held in estima- 

 tion at the present day ; when snuffed up the nos* 

 trils it excites a discharge of mucus, and affords 

 great relief in all affections of the head ; and its 

 operation this way is gentle, though it sometimes 

 induces sneezing. Ettmuller, a celebrated physi- 

 cian and botanist of Leipsic, who flourished about 

 the end of the seventeenth century, gives the follow- 

 ing exellent formula for a cephalic snuff. 



" Of the dried flowers of the Lily of the Valley, 

 and of the leaves of majoram, a drachm each, in 

 powder, mix them well together with half a scruple 

 of the essential oil of majoram, and use it as snuff." 



Of the virtues of the Lily of the Valley, Ettmuller 

 goes so far as to say, 



Quod specijice armalit importentes maritos ad helium venerum. 



Dr. James says, " these flowers being analyzed, 

 after a long maceration, yield several acid liquors, 

 a good deal of concreted volatile salt, and a great 

 quantity of oil. Thus we may believe they contain 



