SAVORY. 213 



be of good service in the stone and gravel, 

 and other nephritic disorders.* 



Savory is of a very hot, penetrating, and 

 aromatic taste, whence it is of service in all 

 diseases in which water and an inert phlegm 

 are predominant. It is an excellent season- 

 ing for farinaceous foods, as beans, and the 

 like; and is accounted one of the best anti- 

 scorbutics, and highly commended against 

 pituitous diseases, and the dropsy. It is a 

 very serviceable plant in affections of the 

 stomach, or crudities and loss of appetite, 

 and sharpens the sight. Externally, it eases 

 pains of the ears, and discusses cold tu- 

 mours, "f- 



This plant was formerly used in the com- 

 position of cakes, puddings, sausages, &c. 

 and was thought inferior to none of the 

 European aromatics, for pleasantness of smell 

 and flavour. 



* Prosper Alpinus de Plantis Exoticis. 

 f Hist. Plant, ascript. Boerhaave 



