752 ORD. XLVI. Liliacee, = = ALLIVuM SATIVUM. 
and its febrifuge power has not only been experienced in pre- 
venting the paroxysms of intermittents,’ but even in subduing the 
plague. § 
Another virtue ascribed to Garlick is that of an anthelmintic:" it 
has likewise been found of great advantage in scorbutic cases,’ and 
in calculous disorders, acting in these not only as a diuretic, but. 
in several instances manifesting a lithontriptic power.* That the 
juice of alliaceous plants in general has considerable effects upon 
human calculi, is to be inferred by the experiments of Lobb;' and 
we are abundantly warranted in asserting, that by a decoction of 
the beards of leeks, taken liberally, and its use persevered in for 
a length of time, has been found remarkably successful in calculous 
and gravelly complaints.” 
¥ Vide Celsus 7. c. p. 142. De Hen Rat. Med. P. it. p. 57. sq. Rosenstein 
Barns sjukd. p. 317. “Bergius. ‘Vide M. M. p. 255. where he ae “¢ in febribus 
quoque lik prectara—identident Vidi plures 
eodem curatos, etiam quos quartana vexaverat. ye a * pulbulo unico 
mane & vesperi, sed quotidie unus bulbulus superaddendus, usquedum 4 rel 
5 bulbulos sumserit eger qualibet vice. Si febris tunc evanuit, diminuenda crit ~ 
dosis, & sufficit postea sumere unicum, vel etiam binos bitbulos, mane & = 
per plures septimanus. 
€ For this purpose it is to be given in such a way as to excite a copious 
diaphoresis. See the authors cited by Zorn. Botan. Med. p. 40. Chenot (De 
peste. p. 108. sq. and others, 
» By Hoffman, Rosenstein, Taube, and others. 
* See Tiiurembery App. plant. 1. 1. p..22. Lind. on scurvy, p. 182. 188. 224. 
* Vide Hoyer Ephem. nat. cur. Cent. i. p. 126. Goetz. Act. nat. cur. vol. 2. Pp: 
434. Moéhring Commerc. Nor. 1735. 220. 
" De Dissol. calc. cap. 10. 
" A boy, six or seven years old, had for a considerable time suffered by a 
calculus in the urinary bladder, which had been discovered on sounding; he had 
recourse to this decoction, which very soon relieved the pain; after which his 
urine became extremely turbid, and constantly deposited a copious clay-like 
sediment for several weeks, when it resumed its natural appearance, and the boy: 
has ever since been free from complaint. Another case similar to this has also 
‘been reported to us, of the truth of which we have not a doubt. 
