PIMPERNEL. 5M 



brain are disturbed, the Pimpernel is said to be 

 an efficacious medicine. 



Tragus pronounced it a remedy for the plague ; 

 others recommend it in all convulsive disorders, 

 hysteria, hypochondriasis, St. Vitus's dance, ^c. 

 In the early stage of consumption, the decoction 

 of Pimpernel is said to be a most invaluable re- 

 medy. Externally, the juice, or decoction, is em- 

 ployed for cleansing foul ulcers, and Geoffrey 

 commends it against the bite of the viper, or a 

 mad dog, in which cases he says they should be 

 copiously drunk at the same time. Simon Paulli 

 mentions a cataplasm of Pimpernel, as a remedy 

 for the gout. 



Most writers agree in the opinion that this 

 plant is very detersive, and having a heating and 

 drawing quality, is good to draw out thorns and 

 splinters from the flesh, and upon the whole has 

 the virtue of drying without mordacity. 



