656 OBD. XL. Oleracee. SALSOLA KALT. 
especially when dissolved in lime water, by which its efficacy is 
considerably increased; for it thus becomes a powerful solvent of 
mucus, which an ingenious modern author supposes to be the chief 
agent in the formation of calculi: it is however only in the 
incipient state of the disease that these remedies promise effectual 
benefit; though they generally abate the more violent symptoms 
where they cannot remove the cause. With Boerhaave, soap was 
a general medicine: for as he attributed most complaints to 
viscidity of the fluids, he, and most of the Boerhaavian school, 
prescribed it in conjunction with different resinous and other sub- 
stances, in gout, rheumatism, and various visceral complaints. 
Soap is also externally employed as a resolvent, and Abies name 
to several office sad Samaras 
cease 
CHENOPODIUM VULVARIA. STINKING GOOSE-FOOT, 
on Or, ORACHE. 
> WSS W 
SYNONYMA. . Atrip] tida. Pharm. Edinb. Bauh. Pin. p. 
119. Atriplex olida.. Gerard. Emac. p. 327. Raié-Hist; p. 198. 
Blitum feetidum Vulvaria dictum, Rati Synop, p.156. Atriplex 
olida sive sylvestris foetida. Park. Theat. p.749. Chenopodium 
caule diffuso, foliis obtuse lanceolatis.. Hal. Stirp. Helo. n. 1577. 
- Chenopodium olidum. Curt. Flor. Lond, Chenopodium Vulvaria. 
’Huds.'Ang. p. 107. Lightf. Scot. p. 149. ens Bot. Arr. 
20p. B55. nl - 
Class Pentandria. Ord. Digynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 309. 
Ess. Gen. Ch. Cal. 5=phyllus, 5-gonus. Cor. 0. Sem. 1, lenti- 
culare, superum. 
‘Sp. Ch. °C. foliis integerrimis thomboideo-ovatis, floribus conglo- 
meratis axillaribus, 
