T84 ORD. XLVIII. Orchidew, ORCHIS MASCULA. 
articles, with two quarts of boiling water, will be sufficient sub- 
sistence for one mana day.* Dr. Percival not only recommends 
the use of Salep as other authors have done in diarrhoea, dysentery, 
dysury, and calculous complaints ; but he thinks “ in the symto- 
matic fever, which arises from the absorption of pus, from ulcers 
in the lungs, from wounds, or from amputations, Salep used 
plentifully is an admirable demulcent, and well adapted to resist 
that dissolution of the crasis of the blood which is so evident in 
these cases.” 
The supposed aphrodisiac qualities of this root, which have been 
noticed ever since the time of Dioscorides, seem to be founded on 
the fanciful doctrine of signatures. ° 
4 Percival]. c. See also Lind’s Appendix to his Essay on 1 the Diseases of Hot 
‘Climates. 
“ Salep ex orchide morione in Suecia paratum citius solvi se passum est, quam 
Persicum, et tam tenacem mucilaginem exhibuit octo — grana in aque fervide 
unica una h. e. radicem in 60-plo aque solvendo, ut per pannum linteum non 
perfecte transigi posset, sed affundi insuper deberet aqux fervide uncia dimidia, 
quo auxilio mucilago ista densitate equavit alteram ex Salep Persico uncia una 
aque elicitam: remansit vero residui ex isto Suecico Salep granum 12 et Persico 
gr.i. Murray l.c. See Vet. Acad. Handl. 1764. p. 245. sq. 
* Orchis, i. e. Ogxis, Testiculus, habet radices instar testiculorum. 
