38 ORD. Ill. Composite.  acaruzna MILLEFoLIUM: 
and pungency by the latter; and both of them equally by a mixture 
of the two. The flowers, distilled with water, yield a penetrating 
essential ell, possessing the flavour of the Milfoil in perfection, 
though rather less agreeable than the flowers themselves,”* 
This plant appears to be the Srgahwrns xiduograros || of the Greek writers, 
by whom it was esteemed an excellent vulnerary + and styptic, and 
was generally employed internally as an useful astringent in all 
hemorrhagic complaints. | Instances of its good effects in this way* 
are likewise mentioned by several of the German physicians, particu- 
larly, by Stahl and Hoffman,‘ who also recommend it. as an effi- 
cacious remedy in various other diseases: the former found it not 
only an astringent, but also a powerful tonic, antispasmodic, and 
sedative. In took of the last mentioned quality, we may remark, 
that in some parts of Sweden it is used-in.making beer, in order to 
render it more intoxicating’; and Sparrman has observed, that it is 
employed for this purpose in some parts of Africa. The leaves and 
flowers of Milfoil are» both directed, for medicinal use in the 
Edinburgh Pharm. In the present pracge however this plant, we 
believe, is wholly setssign: 
* Vide Lewis’s M. M. | p- 424. | Vide Stratiotes, Matthiol. in Dioscorid. 
+ Vulneraria insuper habetur sub externo usu, jam ab Achille, ut ferunt, ‘sana. 
tione yulnerum, subjectorum sibi militum, auctorato. Murray App. Med. vol. 1. 
p- 167. 
> Hemoptysis,: Epistaxis, Menorrhagia, et Hemorrhois. 
© Stahl Diss. de Therap. pass:'hypoc. Hoffman, De prest. rem. §. 18. 
* 
¢ Vide Linn, Flor. Suec. p. 299. 
