56 ORD. XXVI. Multisilique. RANUNCULUS FLAMMULA. 
flies, and has this decided warentnge in many cases, that it does not affect 
the urinary passages. 
The acrid principle of this plant, rises in distillation with water, which, 
taken into the stomach, acts almost instantaneously asa vomit.* Dr. Wither- 
ing says, “I feel myself authorized to assert, that,in the case of poison being 
swallowed, or other circumstances occurring, in which it is desirable to make 
the patient vomit instantaneously, itis preferable toany medicine yet known, 
and does not excite those painful contractions of the upper part of the sto- 
mach, which the white eis sometimes does, ther oby defeating the intention 
for which it was given.” 
* Some years ago a man travelled through several parts of England, administering 
vomits, which operated almost the instant they were swallowed. The distilled waters of 
the ranunculus flammula proved to be his medicine. 
