262 FLORA HOMCOPATHICA. 
the anthers opening by two pores at the extremity, and the roundish 
berry of two or more cells (Bazter). 
Spec. Cuar.—Stem shrubby, zigzag, without thorns. Leaves heart- 
shaped, upper ones hastate. Clusters cymose. 
History.—According to Percira, the first undoubted notice of 
Dulcamara occurs in the works of Tragus (Spreng. Hist. Rei 
Herb., vol. i. p. 227). Dodonzus and Hardouin (ad Plin. H. N. 
t. xxv. p. 68) consider that the KuxAzusos ersgz of Dioscorides 
is the Solanum Dulcamara. Sprengel (op. cit.) states it to be 
the same as the Cilocatra of the Abbess Hildegard of Bil- 
gen; whilst others again (Christ, Disp.) have confounded the 
Auxedos ayoia, or Vitis sylvestris of Dioscorides, with the Bitter- 
sweet. As a medicine it was first brought into notice by Boer- 
haave, who recommended it in phthisis, peripneumonia, scor- 
butus, icterus, jaundice, as a sudorific and tonic. Murray 
(App. Med., vol. i.) orders the juice from the younger branches 
to be used, and says that it promotes all the secretions. Haller 
observes that it partakes of the milder powers of Belladonna. 
Bergius (Mat. Med., 131) “pellens urinam, sudorem menses, 
lochia sputa mundificans;” he chiefly recommended it in rheu- 
matismus, retentio mensium, et lochiorum. It was recom- 
mended in different diseases of the skin, by Linnzus, Carrere, 
Rayoux, and others; and Sir Alexander Crichton states that 
out of twenty-three cases of lepra grecorum, only two resisted 
its action. Bateman also declares that it is a most effectual 
remedy in this disease; and Rayer (Treat. of Dis. of Shin, 
Willis) has used it with advantage in eczema and _ psoriasis, 
Pereira (op. cit.) found it useless in these diseases. De Haen 
(Val. Med. Tom.) employed it in cramps and convulsions. 
Carrere and Starke, in coryzas and diseases produced by damp 
and wet. Chronic catarrh by Vogt. In hysteria and hypo- 
chondriasis by Geoffroy, Hartmann, Boecler, Kiihn, etc. In 
fluor albus by Carrere and Kiihn ; and by others in catarrhal 
fever, blennorrheea, inflammation (erysipelas) of the skin, 
