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of a yellowish box colour of the inside, and the fruit or berries 
are black when they ripen.” 
Pereira (Elem. Mat. Med., vol. ii. p. 1153) makes the Auzedos 
werave of Dioscorides the Tamus communis; but as we have 
noted before, the berries of the one are always black, of the 
other invariably red. 
Dr. Adams, in his Commentary on Paulus A’gineta, vol. iii., 
says: “The wild vine is evidently the Tamus communis, the 
white Bryony the Bryonia dioica, and the black the Bryonia 
alba of Linnzeus.” | 
Mesne recommends the use of Bryonia alba in many diseases, 
and extols it highly; and Serapion ascribes to it, amongst other 
virtues, that of producing a great flow of milk. Galen (De 
Simplic., lib. vi.) says, “ the virtues of the Vitis nigra (Bryonia 
alba, Linn.) are the same as that of alba (B. dioica), but weaker.” 
Bryonia seems to have been used formerly extensively in 
many diseases, although at the present time it +has fallen into 
disuse. Dioscorides employed it in epilepsy, vertigo, and 
melancholia. Galen in gout, especially podagra, hysteria, and 
hypochondriasis, Czlius Aurelianus in jaundice. Sydenham in 
disorders of the mind, delirium, mania, insanity, and imbecility. 
Trautman in arthritic hemicrania. Alexander Trallian in 
deafness and hypochondria, diarrhea, dropsy, pleuritis, stitches in 
the side, sciatica, white swelling and white tumour of the knee. 
Hartmann in diseases of the womb and tardy delivery. Loniger 
in asthma, pain in the neck, in hemorrhages and spitting of 
blood. 
To those conversant in homeopathy, the foregoimg enumera- 
tion is particularly interesting, as the benefit derived from 
Bryonia, in all these cases, arose from the property it has of 
producing symptoms similar to these diseases on persons in 
health ; and Paulli (Quadrip. Botan., Argentorati, 1667, p. 35), 
in allusion to its effects on the uterus, says: “‘ Recensiones prac- 
tici tanquam, specifico in uteri morbis omnis generis radicibus 
utuntur, vel ut menses moveant mulierum, vel ut iis fotum 
