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this charming unilobed plant in the national botanic garden 



at Nancy. It requires to be kept during winter in the hot- 



houfe. 



MEDICINE. 



Doctor Lentin, a celebrated phyfician of Germany, has 

 lately publifhed, in the Tranfactions of the Royal Society of 

 Gottingen, fome obfervations on Caries of the Bones, and the 

 cure of that difeafe. In his opinion it depends on a chemical 

 decompofition of the phofphat of lime, produced by the pu- 

 trefaction of the gelatinous matter contained in the bones. 

 In confequence of this idea, he was authorifed to believe 

 that the phofphoric acid adminiftered externally might be 

 ufeful in that difeafe; and experience, from what he relates, 

 feems to confirm it. He gives internally from ten to twenty 

 drops in any proper vehicle ; and externally, one part of the 

 fame acid with feven parts of diftilled water. He fays, he 

 obferved that the peculiar fetid odour of carious bones was 

 in a little time removed, and that a cure fpeedily followed. 

 He, however, adds, that perfons afflicted with hemorrhoidal 

 fymptoms, as well as women when fubject to their courfes, 

 were a little irritated by this remedy. 



Knakfted has published, in the Memoirs of the Inftitute 

 of Peterfburgh, for the treatment of the fick, that the root of 

 common elecampane [Inula helenium), given both internally 

 and externally, is a very efficacious remedy for tetters, the 

 itch, and other cutaneous difeafes. 



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