36 ORD. ITV. . Composite. CENTAUREA BENEDICTA, 
good effects in this way have now as little credit as those of its 
external'use, by which cancers and carious bones are said to have 
been healed‘  Bergius reports, that it is antacida, corroborans, 
stomachica, sudorifera, diuretica, eccoprotica; and that it ts useful 
in Anorexia, Cachexia, Cephalalgia sympatica, Arthritis, Febres 
intermittentes. We might however, with equal propriety, attribute 
these virtues to many other simple bitters, from which the Carduus 
does not seem to be peculiarly different. In loss of appetite, where 
the stomach was injured by irregularities, the good effects of the 
Carduus have been frequently experienced* | Formerly it was a 
common practice to assist the operation of emetics, by drinking an 
infusion of the Carduus;~-but the flowers of chamomile have since 
been substituted for this purpose, and probably may be advanta- 
geously done for several others in which the Carduus is recommend- 
ed. The seeds have also been employed in emulsion with the same 
intention as the leaves. 
4 J. Bauh. hist. tom. 3, p. 79. Arnold de Villa Nova pract. c. 44. 
* Duncan Edinb. New Dispens. 
Toeemmeneiimmmemieiens sn eee 
ACHILLEA MILLEFOLIUM. COMMON YARROW; 
Or, MILFOIL. 
SYNONYMA. Millefolium. Pharm. Edinb. Millefolium vul- 
gare album. Bauh. Pin. p. 140. Millefolium terrestre vulgare. 
Gerard. Emac. p. 1072. Millefolium vulgare. Park. Theat. p. 
693. Rati Hist. p.345. Synop. p. 183. Achillea foliis pinnatis, 
pinnis longe zqualibus, pinnatis, pinnulis trifidis et quinquefidis. 
Hal. Stirp. Helv. n. 107. A. M. Wither. Bot. Arrang. p. 941, 
Curtis Flor. Lond. 6. t. 61, Huds, 374. Smith. Fl. Brit. 908. 
Class Syngenesia. Ord. Polygamia Superflua. Lin. Gen. Plant. 971. 
