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POLYPODIUM VULGARE, ORD. LIL. Fikces. 799. 
employed as a. pugative, and thought tobe peculiarly viatels dn: 
expelling bile and. pituitous, bimotst ; therefore ‘much used in 
maniacal melancholical disorders ;, but to;act,as cathartic the root: 
must be exhibited.in itsrecent,state, and in.a large dose. Another. 
character-in which it has been recommended, and: for which from, 
its sensible. qualities it/seems to. promise: more advantage, is that 
of a demulcent, or pectoral ;: thus, joined with, liqu rice its good 
effects have been experienced.in coughs and. asthmatic affections. 
However it is now ‘rarely used: in: this. country ; nor have the. 
French authors, Poissoner, and Malouia,® who. have. cited instances 
of its. success in mania, been able to. restore,to it its angen TERIA : 
tion in this calamitous disord@rsis:<is odt yd dego hes? vitas: 
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_ Asplenium, ‘petiolis hirsutis, folio Jonge lineari lanceolata, in- 
tegerrimo circa petiolum exsicco. Hall. Hist. n. 1695. Asple- 
nium, Frondes lanceolate, &e, Scop. Fl. Carn. A. Scolo-. 
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