TRUCRIUM CHAMADRYS. ORD. XIX. Verticillate. 359 
dissolve the bitter matter more perfectly than pure spirit, the 
watery extract being stronger in taste than the spirituous;* though 
the quantity of both extracts, moe to Cartheuser’s experi- 
ments, is very nearly alike. 
The Chamezedrys has been esteemed chiefly in the character of a 
mild aperient and corroborant: it is recommended in uterine ob- 
structions,” intermitting fevers,‘ and in the rheumatism and gout. 
Of the last mentioned complaint, Charles the Vth is said to have 
been cured by a vinous decoction of this, with some other herbs, 
taken daily for sixty successive days. * 
Other and less equivocal evidence of the good effects of the 
Chamedrys, in this disorder, are recorded by different authors, who 
appear to have employed it in various forms and combinations, of 
which the celebrated antiarthritic, or Portland powder, is an 
instance. 
According to Murray the virtues of this plant should be nearly 
allied to those of the Marrubium, and therefore promises to be 
equally useful in asthmatic affections, coughs, and infarctions of 
the lungs. However, while we admit this conclusion, we consider 
the virtues of both as somewhat problematical. 
* Lewis. l. c. > See Ray. t. c. 
© Alpinus. Med. Avgypt. p. 316. Riverius. Observ. Cent. 4.—82. Chomet. Us. 
#.139. Seguier. Pl. Veron. T, i. p. 319. 4 Vesal. Rad. Chin. 111. 
eee EE 
Many other medicinal plants of the order Verticixiats still remain unnoticed: 
but considering the great number of this class here figured, it has been thought 
that the medical reader will not regret the suppression of the following: 
Lin. NaME, OFFICINAL. ENGLISH. 
Ajuga ae awe Consolida media Mountain Bugle 
Teucrium ¢ Polium cretic Poley of Candia 
vate ch mamepitys Chamzpit Ground pine 
Polium montanum Mountain a ong 
Melicis Melssophyll Melissophylum Bastard 
Meliss. intha Calaminth: Calamint 
ace concen St as French Lavender 
Satureja hortensis Satureja Summer Savory 
Nepeta Cata Nep tmrint 
Origanum creticum Yriganum creticum Marjoram of Candia 
Salvia Sclarea Sclarea r 
Leonurus Cardiaca Cardiaca other-wort 
pci vulgaris Prunell Self-heal 
m album Lamium album Dead-nettle 
