334- PHYSICAL HERBS. 



pagated by slips in March or October, or raised 

 from seeds . sown soon after they are ripe. The 

 leaves have a strong offensive smell, and a very 

 bitter nauseous taste; the flowers are equally bitter, 

 but less nauseous. 



Wormwood is a moderately warm stomachic and 

 corroborant : and for these purposes it was formerly 

 in common use, but it has now given place to bit- 

 ters of a less ungrateful kind. Wormwood was 

 formerly much used by brewers instead of hops, to 

 give the bitter taste to their malt liquors, and to 

 preserve them. This plant very powerfully resists 

 putrefaction, and is made a principal ingredient in 

 antiseptic fomentations. 



