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make it up into balls, which are brought to 

 London and other remote places, as being the 

 best that the world affords." 



Mustard-seed is one of the strongest pun- 

 gent, stimulating, diuretic medicines, that 

 operate without exciting much heat. By its 

 acrimony and pungency it stimulates the 

 solids and attenuates viscid juices ; and hence 

 stands deservedly recommended for exciting 

 appetite, assisting digestion, promoting the 

 fluid secretions, and for the other purposes 

 of the acrid plants called antiscorbutic. 



This seed has often been given, unbruised, 

 with good success to those afflicted with pa- 

 ralytic, cachectic, and serous disorders ; and 

 its powder is also applied externally to sti- 

 mulate benumbed and paralytic limbs or 

 parts affected with rheumatic pains : it is 

 generally used with a few bread crumbs and 

 pounded garlic, made into a cataplasm with 

 vinegar. 



The flower of mustard curdles boiled milk, 

 and gives all its pungency to the whey. 



Dale, after Schroder, observes, that mus- 

 tard heats and dries, incides, attenuates, and 

 attracts. 



We agree with Boerhaave, says Dr. James, 

 that mustard, and other acrid vegetables, 



