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than thefej and the Flowers are of a very pecu- 

 liar kind i they are difpofed together in a kind of 

 flat Form, and are very fmall and inconfiderable. 

 The Bed on which they are fituated is of an oval 

 Figure, and is called the Placenta of the Plant ; 

 it is of a pale Colour and thin. ' 



We are told of another Plant of the fame kind j 

 the Leaves of which are lefs divided, and the 

 Placenta is fquare, but the Roots of both are 

 allowed to be exadly alike, and it is therefore? 

 jnore probable, that this is not another Plant, but 

 the fame in a different Stage of Growth. 



We ufe the Roots, our Druggifts keep them. 



and they are the principal Ingredient in that ^sk 

 mous Powder, called from its being rolled up into 

 Balls, Lapis Contrayerva. It is an excellent Cor-^ 

 dial and Sudorific, good in Fevers and in nervous 

 Cafes, and a^ainft Indieellions, ChoUcs, and 



Weakneffes of the Stomach. It may be taken in 

 Powder or in Tin(5lure, but it is better to give if 

 alone, than with that Mixture of Crabs Clawl 



and other ufelefs Ingredients, which go into, the 

 Contrayerva Stone. In Fevers and nervous Dif' 

 orders, it is beft to give it in Powder, in Weak- 

 neffes of the Stomach, it is beft ir> Tin<5Vufe.' It 

 is alfo an excellent Ingredient in bitter Tiniflures, 

 and it is wonderful the prefent Practice has not put 

 it to that Ufe. AH the old Prefcribers of Forms 

 for thefe Things^ have put fome warm Root into 

 them, but none is fo proper as this, the moft 

 uflial has been the Galangul, but that has a moft 

 difagreeable Flavour in Tinclure : The Contray* 

 rrva has all the Virtues expefted to be found in 



that, and it is quite unexceptionable. 



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