CHAMOMILE. ItlV 



earnestly recommends Cliamomilein fevers, and Morton *, Hoff- 

 man f, and Heister J, found it more effectual than the Peru- 

 vian bark. Dr. Cullen § also observed that his countryman, 

 Dr. Pitcairn, was of opinion that the powers of Chamomile 

 were in this respect equal to the bark. 



Chamomile, especially when combined with ginger or other 

 aromatics, and the alkalies, is an excellent stomachic in indiges- 

 tion, flatulent colic, gout, chlorosis, periodical headaches, 

 bilious affections of the stomach attended with morning sickness, 

 flatulent colic, and in chronic debility of the intestinal canal. 

 In diarrhoeas it should not be used. A strong infusion of Cha- 

 momile is a very common and efficient emetic, and one which 

 may be given in the most delicate habits, as it does not leave 

 the stomach in a debilitated state, but, on the contrary, invigor- 

 ates that organ. 



Ettmuller commends it greatly for the relief of those pains in 

 the region of the kidneys arising from gravel and calculus, and 

 the after-pains following severe labours. Indeed its anodyne 

 properties, though little known, are very considerable ; and it 

 has in many cases procured relief from pain, where no pro- 

 pensity to sleep, or any other narcotic consequences were per- 

 ceived. This effect was so striking to Ettmuller in the cases 

 of severe after-pains, that he describes it as almost miraculous. 

 He administered a decoction of the flowers in beer, and affirms, 

 that to his knowledge, this decoction had procured almost im- 

 mediate relief, when opium and other anodynes had failed ||. 



Both Forestus and Ettmuller ^[ speak of the anodyne influence 

 of Chamomile over cardialgia, or severe burning pain at the 

 stomach, either exhibited in infusion or in the form of a tincture. 



* Exercit. I. de febr. interra. cap. 0. INIorton's celebrated powder was 

 composed of one scruple of chamomile flowers, ten grains of salt of worm- 

 wood, and ten grains of calx of antimony. — Thompson's Lond. Disp. 

 7th Edit. p. 1 77. 



•Y Diss, de prjestan. rem. dom. p. 29. 



ij: Diss, de Med. Germ, indig. p. 13. 



§ Woodville, Med. Bot. vol. ii. p. 285. 



II " The infusion of an ounce of Chamomile flowers in a pint of good beer, 

 which has just been made to boil, will be found sufficiently strong for most 

 purposes. The whole of the liquor will require to be squeezed out from the 

 flowers. From a wine-glass to a tea-cupful is a dose ; and this, in cases of 

 great pain, may be repeated every hour or two, till ease is procured." 

 Waller's Brit. Dom. Herb. p. 80. 



5f Geofl'roy, Tract, de Med. tom. iii. p. .301. 



