8 Fucus plumosus; es: a 
the others;) 9. Ulva clavata; 10. U 
ferent species of Ceramia, and other foreign su stances, 
which the fishermen raise with it, and which are difficultly 
Separated. All these plants are geficulated thread-like 
Alger, and being mixed with the Fucus Helminthocorton, 
account for its different effects. Helminthocorton | 
been used from time immemorial, by the inhabitants of 
Corsica, as an anthelmintic. When that island was re- 
united to France in 1775, the medical officers of the 
military hospital of Ajaccio, communicated the knowledge 
of the virtues of this plant to France, whence it spread — 
gradually throughout Europe; the Germans rely on it. 
Dose, in powder, 18 grains, to infants under 7 years; 3ss 
to 3jss to those past that age—in decoction 40z. to 6oz- 
water—also in syrup. sie 
No. 276.—Futico Licni. Wood-Soot. 
A tea made of this substance, is an old remedy. “ Soot-tea,’* 
Dr. Chapman says, ‘is used with advantage in flatulent 
colics of new born infants, and sometimes not less so in 
spasmodic affections of the stomach, in adults.” I really re- 
gret, that Dr. C. should have introduced this disgusting tea 
into his book—Can any thing be more repugnant to our 
ideas of the delicacy of a new born babe’s digestive func- 
tions, than to subject it, among its first subjects for action, 
to such trash? Besides this, it contains sulphate of ammo- 
nia, and is bitter—therefore totally unfit for such a pur- 
pose. Ihave noticed the subject, purely to drive it 
your practice. Equally repulsive to my ideas of a 
medicine, is the mixture of soot and hickory ashes, of 
which he recommends a hot infusion for dyspepsia at- 
tended with acidity and spasms. Surely our materia 
Medica is not so meagre as to oblige us to resort to such 
substances, by quarts and gallons, (as mentioned in the 
formula, of Dr. C.) And to assert, as he does, that this 
mixture is more useful than other alkaline mixtures, is 
really what the profession cannot bear him out in arse. 
I trust cobwebs, soot, and ashes, at least in their cru 
states, will be left out of the next edition of Dr. Chap- 
man’s work—though I have no’ doubt these substances, 
chemically refined, might be found worthy of notice. It 
__ is the coarse and empirical aspect of the article in Dr. C.’s 
_ book, which I object to, 
G. 
No, 277.—Gatanc# Rapix. See Kempferia and 
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