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minute glands, which secrete an essential oil, and are easily dis- 
covered on holding the leaf betwixt the eye and the light. Both 
the leaves and the flowers," but especially the former, have been 
in great estimation as a remedy for epilepsy, and various other 
convulsive disorders. Westerhoef, who seems to have first made 
public this virtue of the leaves, about thirty years ago, transmitted 
an account of their efficacy to De Haen,* who also experienced 
their good effects; after which they became a favourite remedy 
at Vienna, and numerous instances of their success in these com- 
plaints are published by several German physiciars.° 
Their employment, however, in this country has been attended 
with less success; proofs of which are given by Professors Home? 
and Cullen. The dose of the powdered leaves is from half a 
dram to a dram, two or three times a day, and proportionably 
in decoction. : . 
The young unripe fruit formerly had a place in the Edinburgh 
Pharmacopeeia, under the name of Aurantia curaslavensia, or 
Curasso oranges. The Limon Bergamotta of the Italians, from 
whom we have the essence so named, approaches more nearly to 
the Orange than to the lemon, as its leaves have winged footstalks. 
= Bergius states the former to be tonic and the latter analeptic. Af. M. vol, é. p. 638. 
» Rat. Med. T. 6. p. 305. sqq. 
° Locher, who gave this medicine to fifteen epileptic patients, says, that nine 
were evidently much relieved by it, though not cured. Obs. Pract. p. 47.—See 
the authorities cited by Murray. /. c. 
® Clinical Experiments. p. 211. 
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