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and carbuncles. Drunk e with honey and wine, it cureth the 

 jaundice. It is said that the very fume or smoke of this hearbe 

 will rid hens and such like pulleen of the pip." It was em- 

 ployed by the Arabian physicians for the same purposes as 

 mentioned by Dioscorides. 



Schrod (669) says: " In mensibus fortiter ciendis, foctu 

 ejiciendo, urina pellendu, asthmata medendo. Extrinsecus in 

 affectibus uterinis, ulceribus, serpentibus arcendis, scabie, pne- 

 cipue capitis infantum, exsiccarda ac curanda (cum cremore 

 lactis) in maculis faciei abstergendis. It is said to kill worms 

 in horses, cows, dogs, as well as in children. Oleum sabinae 

 ventri inunctum aut frondcs ejus tusse et umbilico impositce 

 vermes puerorum execant. Decoctum intro sumptum idem 

 prsestat. Verum usu ejus internum minus tutum putat Park- 

 insonus. It is commended also in the jaundice, dropsy, asthma, 

 gout, fluor albus, corns j also for vermis umbilicalis. Pene in- 

 fumis facta est apud nos, quod nobile aroaov sit apud vulgus. 

 But I doubt of its being so dangerous as is commonly believed 

 in pregnancy, though it cannot be often proper there" (Alston, 

 Led. on Mat. Med.) 



At the present time, in allopathic practice, it is chiefly 

 employed as an ingredient in some of the emmenagogues. 

 Pereira (op. cit.) states it to be the most certain and powerful 

 emmenagogue of the whole Materia Medica. As a topical 

 agent, it is frequently employed in the form of a cerate to make 

 perpetual blisters. 



Description. — Juniperus Sabina is a fine evergreen shrub, 

 sometimes disposed to spread horizontally, sometimes rising 

 erect to the height of eight or ten feet. It flowers in April and 



. Its trunk is sometimes a foot in diameter. It is covered 

 with a reddish-brown bark, and sends off many branches nume- 

 rously subdivided. The leaves are very small, numerous, and 

 erect ; opposite, pointed, of a bright green colour, and wholly 

 invest the younger branches, which terminate in sharp points. 

 The male catkin is conical, and consists of three opposite florets, 



