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off ftom the sildeaiine tincture, brings over likewise a part of the 
flavour of the camomile, but leaves a considerable part behind in 
the extract. The smell is in great measure covered or suppressed 
by the spirit, in all the spirituous preparations; but the taste both 
in the spirituous tincture and extract, is considerable stronger than 
in the watery.’”’* 
These flowers possess the tonic and stomachic qualities usually 
ascribed to simple bitters, having very little astringency, but a 
strong odour of the aromatic and penetrating kind, from which they 
are also judged to be carminative, emmenagogue, and in some mea- 
sure antispasmodic and anodyne. They have been long successfully 
employed for the cure of intermittents;* as well as of fevers of the 
irregular nervous kind, accompanied with visceral obstructions, for 
which we have the authority of Sir John Pringle.‘ 
That camomile flowers may be effectually substituted for Peruvian 
bark in the cure of intermittent fevers, appears from the testimony 
of several respectable physicians, to which we have referred; and 
to which we may add that of Dr. Cullen, who says, “I have em- 
ployed these flowers, and agreeable to the method of Hoffman, by 
giving several times during the intermission, from half a dram to 
a dram of the flowers in powder, have cured intermittent fevers. 
' } have found however that the flowers were attended with this 
inconvenience, that, given in a large quantity, ‘they readily run 
off by stool, defeating thereby the purpose of preventing the 
return of paroxysms; and I have found, indeed, that without 
joining with sapock an opiate, or an astringent, I could not common- 
ly employ them.” 
4 Lewis, M. M. p. 221. 
© Morton, (Exercit. 1.de febr. interm. cap, 6.) Hoflman, (Diss. de prestan .. 
rem. dom. p. 29. Zag — (Diss. de Medic. Germ. indig. p. 13.) found these 
flowers more €! in-the cure of intermittents than the peruy. bark: and Dr 
Cullen observes, that -his celebrated countryman, Dr. Pitcairn, was of onining' 
that the powers of Cam. flowers were in this respect equal to the bark. 
® Dis. of the Army, p. 216. tM M., vol. ii. p. 79 
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