38 FLORA HOMM@OPATHICA. 
History.—No notice is given in the earlier authors on medi- 
cal botany, of the Arnica montana, although by some (Chaume- 
ton, Flore Médicale) it is supposed that the Arousz of Dios- 
corides, commented on by Matthiolus (lib. iii., exlvii.), is 
identical with this plant. However, Dr. Adams (Supplement to 
Dunbar’s Lexicon, 8rd. edit.), a good authority on these sub- 
jects, says, that Adius is the same as Acuacwwoy, as expressly 
stated by Galen (lib. iii. p. 154). R. Stephens calls it Plantago 
aquatica, and it is so acknowledged by Cordus, Sibthorp, and 
Sprengel; but the description given by Dioscorides is more 
like the Doronicum than the Plantain ; Clusius (Plant. Rariores, 
p- xviii.) describes a plant under the name of Doronicum Pan- 
nonicum, which agrees in most respects with the Arnica montana. 
The same plant is mentioned by Gerarde (lib. ii. p. 742) as the 
German Marigold, or Chrysanthemum latifolium; by Gesner 
as Caltha alpina; by Dodonzus as Chrysanthemum latifolium ; 
by Pena and Lobel as Nardus celtica altera; and as Ptarmica 
montana (Daleschampii in Eisior. Lugd., p. 1169). It was not 
brought into use till the beginning of the last century, when it 
was extolled by a German physician, of the name of Fehr, as 
the panacea for contusions and bruises ; hence it obtained the 
name Panacea lapsorum. Dr, Collin, of Vienna, used it exten- 
sively in the Pazman Hospital in that city for four years, 
from 1771-74, with, as he relates, most unprecedented success, 
and through its agency hundreds of patients were snatched 
from the jaws of death. He used it extensively in intermittent 
and putrid fevers, supposing it to possess tonic and antiseptic 
qualities in the highest degree, and also in malignant dysentery. — 
It was observed that on first giving this medicine, it frequently 
produced vomiting and uneasiness at the stomach 3 when given 
improperly, and in too large doses, it excites great anziety, 
shooting and burning pains, and even 
vomiting, vertigo, and coma. : 
It has also been recommended and given in paralytic disor- 
ders ; chronic rheumatism ; retention of urine from paralysis of 
dangerous hemorrhages, 
