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medicine procures deep almoft as certainly, and in an equal degree with 



opium j but the eyes feem diftended, and appear bright and fparkling as they gt 

 rally do before the eruption of the fmail pox and meafles, after the fleepy effects 



over. In a fhort time after this firft dofe is administered 



and begins to rife ; the fever 



the convulfions, if any, abate 



pulfe grows reg 



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appear more favourable ; and the worms are generally discharged in great quantities 

 by the ufe of the fubfequent purgatives, if not before : often above a hundred at 1 



time 



but when a few only come 



ay 



and thoft 



which feldom is the cafe 



the dofe muft be again repeated, and this fcarcely ever fails. 



I never knew this medicine ineffectual when there was the leaft probability of fu 

 cefs ; nay, have often found it ferviceable when there was not the leaft reafon to e 



peel: 



I have been however 



knew it at all hurtful 



ordering it for children ; for tho' I 



efpecially 



fibres 



effects upon the eyes are fuch as frequently deterred me 



weakly, and more (enfible of 



and the fev 





rifing from this fource in fuch fubjects, feldom fo violent as to hinder the adrninif- 

 tration of fome other medicine, that may prove equally as effectual when the fymp- 



toms are not too urgent. 



LISIANTHIUS I. ErecJus y Jo His lanceolatis jloribus Jingularibus ter- 

 minals bus. Tab. o. f. 1. 

 Lifianthius Etc. Thez. Zeyl. 145. 2. t. 67. 

 Rapunculus Fruticojus linifoltis, &c. Slo. Cat. 58. & H. t. 10 1* 



The larger Lifianthius with lanceolated leaves. 



Periantium. Pentapbyllum, Joliis anguflis acuminatis car inat is erecJo-conniven 



tibus, ad dorfum angulatis acutis &Jubalatis, marginibus membranaceis. 

 Corolla. Monopetala tubulata j tubus longus ad apicem calicis coar£latus> £? inde 



ad Jaucem gradatim ampliatus ; limbus patulus in quinque lacinias 

 lanceolatas divifus. 



Stamina. Filamenta quinque infimce Jloris parti adnata^ erecta £? tubo hngiora ; 



anthers oblongo-ovata. 

 Piftillum. Germen ovato-acuminatum, Jiylus fimpkx longitudinis Jlaminum, ftig- 



ma capitatum bilobum. 



Pericarpium. Capfula oblongo-ovata bilocularis, Jeminibus plurimis rejerta* 



This elegant little plant is not uncommon in the road to Sixteen-mile Walk ; and 

 frequently met with in the mountains of St. Ann's; t grows in a dry fandy but cool 

 foyl, and, rifes generally to the height of fourteen or fixteen inches or better : it is 

 not much divided, but all the branches moot commonly to the fame height, and 

 are furnifhed with oblong, pointed leaves difpofed in an oppofite order : the flowers 

 are large in proportion to the plant ; they are generally longer than the leaves, and 

 ftand at the extremities of the branches. The whole plant makes an elegant ap- 

 pearance in the woods. 



LISIANTHIUS 2 . Foliis cordato-acuminatis, petiolis brevibus y Jloribus 



terminalibus quandoque geminatis. Tab. 9. f.2 t 



• The heart-leaf 'd Lifianthus. 



plant may be deemed a variation of the foregoing j they are at leaft fo very 



the general make and habit, that the form of the leaves is almoft the only 



difference obferved between them ; I found this plant growing on the banks of Mam- 



mee River between the hills above Bull-bay. 





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