I rena ce 
crocus sativus. - ORD. XLVI. Liliacee. — 767 
putrid disease. Saffron has also been employed as a diaphoretic, 
and for the purpose of throwing out variolous pustles, and other 
exanthemata; but this practice seems to have originated from a 
mistaken notion of the action of Saffron, as well as from a fallacious 
pathology, which is now utterly exploded. In short, though the 
sensible qualities of this medicine are pretty considerable, it ap- 
pears to us to possess no other power than simply that of an aro- 
matic: and Dr. Cullen declares, that he “ has not been more 
puzzled upon any occasion, than in ascertaining the medicinal 
qualities of this substance,”? so that the words of a very classical 
writer may still be applied to it, ‘though with a contrary view : 
“* Nec poteris croci dotes numerare, nec usus.” 
At present very little’ confidence is placed in this medicine, 
though it enters several officinal compositions. The Edinburgh 
College directs a tinctura ssa but that of London only retains a 
syrup of this drug.’ . 
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a a ‘* 
— haga 
OO cogent sets . 
: 2 
. * 
ALOE PERFOUATA, SOCOTORINA,  SOCOTORINE ALOE. 
TE 
S YNON YMA. Aloz socotorina, Pharm. Lond. & Edinb. . Aloe 
Americana anane floribusque suave rubentibus. Pluk. Almag. 
t. 240. f. 4. ‘Aloe (vera) foliis longissimis et angustissimis, 
marginibus spinosis, floribus spicatis. Mill. Dict. 
Class Hexandria. Ord. Monogynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 430. 
Ess. Gen. Ch. Cor. erecta, ore patulo, fundo nectarifero. Filam. 
receptaculo inserta. 
Sp. Ch. A. foliis caulinis dentatis amplexicaulibus vaginantibus, 
floribus corymbosis cernuis pedunculatis subeylindricis. 
* A, S. foliis longissimis et angustissimis, marginibus spinosis, 
floribus spicatis, 
