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nevertheless contains in certain vessels a 

 sweet juice, which sometimes exudes on the 

 surface. By drying, it loses all its acrimony, 

 becoming first sweetish, and then almost 

 insipid: if kept in a cool place in sand, it 

 retains its qualities for a considerable time. 

 Its medicinal effects are, to stimulate the 

 solids, attenuate the juices, and promote the 

 fluid secretions. It seems to extend its 

 action through the whole habit, and to affect 

 the minutest glands. It scours the cutaneous 

 glands, and breaks through such little stop- 

 pages there, as occasion deformities, and all 

 the symptoms of the scurvy. This root is 

 also powerfully diuretic, but most so when 

 joined with acids. Its great activity and 

 warmth also make it good in all such nervous 

 cases as arise from cold and viscid juices ; and 

 induce heaviness of the senses, or inaptitude 

 to motion ; in the same manner as mustard 

 and all such stimuli. 



Sydenham, who has been called the father 

 of physic among the moderns, recommends 

 it likewise in dropsies, particularly those 

 which follow intermitting fevers. It is also 

 extolled in cases of the stone. Thomas 

 Bartholin affirms, that the juice of horse- 

 radish dissolved a calculus, or stony con- 



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