368 ORD. XX. Personaie. VERONICA OFFICINALIS: 
to the taste, yet these qualities are so unlike those which ‘we dis- 
cover in the foreign tea, that the extremely high price of the 
latter, at that time, must have been the chief reason for causing a 
contrary opinion, and of reconciling Europeans to a substitute: SO 
imperfect as the leaves of Veronica. 
As a medicine also this plant has had a considerable share of 
fame. Francus® and Heffmann‘* ascribe to it numerous virtues, the 
former calling it Polychresta herba Veronica. . The disorders in 
- which it has been esteemed most useful are those of the lungs, as 
coughs, asthmas, consumptions, &c. in which it is said not only to 
prove expectorant, but by its extraordinary vulnerary power to 
heal internal ulcers. 
Its use has likewise been recommended by several authors in 
various other complaints requiring medicines of very different 
characters; but if we judge of the utility of the Veronica by its 
sensible qualities, it is only to be recognized as an astringent; and 
not sufficiently powerful as such to produce any considerable effect, 
and is therefore now disregarded by medical practitioners, 
> Vide Polychresta herba Veronica, published in 1690. 
* Vide Fr. Hoffmann in Diss. de infusi Veronice efficacia preferendaherbe Thee, 
Also Haller. l, c. 
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EUPHRASIA OFFICINALIS, COMMON EYEBRIGHT. 
SYNONYMA. Evuphrasia. Pharm. Geoff. iii. 454. Dale. 196. 
Alston. ti. 138. Rutty. 189. Bergius. 543. Murray. ii. 186. 
Lewis. 292. Cullen. i. 42. Edinb. New Disp. 187. Euphrasia 
oficinarum. Bauh. Pin. 233. Ger. Emac. 663. Park. Theat. 
1329. Raii Hist.771. Synop.?84. Euphrasia officinalis. Huds. 
Ang. 268. With. Bot. Arr.635. Curt. Flor. Lend. 335. 
Didynamia Angiospermia. Lin, Gen. Plant. 741. 
