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flowers, of a bright pale yellow colour. This 

 plant is used as a warm deobstruent bitter, 

 in weakness of the stomach, and is good in 

 cachectic and hysteric disorders, and likewise 

 as an anthelminthic ; the seeds have been 

 chiefly recommended in this last intention.* 



Tansy contains an aromatic, oily, volatile 

 salt, loaded with a great deal of sulphur ; for 

 by the chemical analysis, it yields a great 

 deal of oil, a pretty considerable quantity of 

 earth, a little urinous spirit, and no volatile 

 concrete salt. Thus it is stomachic, febri- 

 fuge, sudorific, vulnerary, and aperient. -f 



It gives no tincture of red to blue paper. 



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