30 On the Medical Virtues of the 



The accommodations at the Hot- Springs are reck- 

 oned (in 1800) the best of any which are found at the 

 various watering-places in this part of Virginia. The 

 lodging, however, is only tolerable, and as the com- 

 pany is all entertained in one house, there is always 

 a necessity of being in a crowd when out of a lodg- 

 ing-room ; and it is not possible, even in it, to avoid 

 disturbance from the noise occasioned by the com- 

 pany. 



VIII. On the medical virtues of the Humulus Lupulus, 

 or Common Hop. Communicated to the Editor, by 

 Anthony Fothergill, M. D. 



AT our late conversation respecting the medi- 

 cal virtues of the Common Hop, on which you did me 

 the honour to request my opinion in writing, I shall 

 very willingly lay before you the result of my expe- 

 rience. At this distance, however, from my notes 

 (which, on relinquishing practice, I left in England), 

 I can give you but a very imperfect account, and that 

 merely from memory. 



Several years ago, I was induced to give it a trial, 

 from observing its effects in well-hopped ale, used as 

 a common beverage, and afterwards to prescribe it as 

 a remedy, in certain cases, in preference to other 

 bitters. 



Formerly, in some parts of Europe, it was prohi- 

 bited as a noxious weed of deleterious quality, and 



