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of Anemone. The first, or ^egor, is, according to Sprengel. 

 the A. coronaria; the second, or ayg«a, is the A. stellate; and 

 the third, with dark leaves, the A. nemorosa. He also divides 

 them into the cultivated and the wild. He recommends them 

 principally as external applications, as for foul ulcers, in inflam- 

 mation of the eyes, et subdita autem in pesso menstrua ciunt. 



The Arabian physicians employed them for the same purposes 

 as Dioscorides. 



Pliny (HblL Trans., book ii.) recommends all kinds of the 

 u wind floure tree, in headache and inflammations thereof ; cures 

 the infirmities of the teeth; and laid to the eyes as a cataplasme, 

 represseth the vehement flux of watery humours thither. 



** The magicians and wise men attribute much to these hearbs, 

 and tell many wonders of them; namely, that a man should 

 gather the first that he seeth in any yeere, and in the gathering 

 to say these words : I gather thee for a remedie against tertian 

 and quartan agues, which done, the partie must lap and bind 

 fast in a red cloth the same floure, and so keepe it in a shadie 

 place, and, when need requireth, to take the same and either 

 hang it about the necke, or tie it to the arme or some other 

 place. The root of that anemone which beareth the red floure, 

 if it be bruised and laid upon any living creature whatsoever, 

 raiseth a blister by that caustic and corrosive vertue which it 

 hath, and therefore it is used to mundifie and cleanse filthie 

 ulcers." 



Cullen (Mat. Med., vol. ii. p. 215), writing of Pulsatilla 

 nigricans, says : €€ This is one of the remedies which we owe 

 to the benevolent industry of Baron Storck ; but he has ascribed 

 to it so many wonderful effects that his credit is hurt with 

 many persons, and has made many neglect to give this remedy 

 a frequent and fair trial." He classes it under the head of 

 stimulants. 



It was upon the authority of Baron Storck (LibelL de Usu 

 Medico Pulsat. Nigr., 1771) that this plant, with several 

 others of great activity, was received into medical use. He 





