DICTAMNUS ALBUS. ORD: XXVI. Multisilique. A67 
tinctures, remains entire in the extracts: the aqueous extract is in 
much larger quantity than the spirituous, and proportionably 
weaker in faste.” 
Formerly this root was used as a stomachic, tonic, and alexi- 
pharmic, and was supposed to be a medicine of much efficacy in 
removing uterine obstructions, and destroying worms;‘ but its 
medicinal powers became so little regarded by modern physicians, 
that it had fallen almost entirely into disuse, till Baron Stoerck 
brought it into notice by publishing several cases of its success,’ 
viz. in tertian intermittents, worms, (lumbric1) and menstrual 
suppressions. In all these cases he employed the powdered root 
to the extent of a scruple twice a day. He also made use of a 
tincture, prepared of two ounces of the fresh root digested in 
fourteen ounces of spirit of wine; of this twenty to fifty drops, 
two or three times a day, were successfully prescribed in epilep- 
sies, &c. and when joined with steel, this root, we are told, was 
of great service to chlorotic patients. 
The Dictamnus undoubtedly is a medicine of considerable 
power; but, notwithstanding the account of it given by Stoerck, 
who seems to have paid little attention to its modus operandi, we 
may still say with Haller, ‘“ Nodum autem vires pro eget 
exploratus est.” I. c. | 
> Lewis, M. M. p. :274.. 
© See Geier, Dictamnographia. Buchner Diss. de Frarinelta. Matthiolus says, 
*¢ ad multa utilis est.” p. 523. . ara, 
# Vide libell. de Flammula Jovis, Dictamno albo, §c. 
