118 BUGLOSS. 



such as pleurisy and peripneumonia. Indeed the juice of them 

 combined, obtained by expression and clarified, in the dose of 

 four or five ounces at a time, was considered an absolute specific 

 in pleurisy. Ray considered them to possess anti-epileptic 

 virtues, and Chomel states that he found a decoction of the 

 leaves useful in dysentery. 



Bugloss is not yet banished from the Parisian and some other 

 pharmacopoeias ; an infusion, a conserve, and a distilled vpater 

 are directed to be made with the flowers. 



A preparation made from the root of this plant is used by 

 the Chinese, for promoting the eruption of the small-pox. 



