166 HORSE-CHESTNtJT. 



Notwithstanding the value set upon this bark by the authors 

 just cited, it has now fallen greatly into disuse. In decoction, 

 however, it is occasionally employed as a lotion to phagedenic 

 ulcers * ; and if a small quantity of the powder be used as an 

 errhine, it produces a discharge from the nose, which, in some 

 complaints of the head and eyes, is found of considerable 

 benefit f. 



The roasted nuts have been found beneficial in atonic ute- 

 rine hemorrhages. For this purpose tliey are pulverised, and an 

 ounce and a half boiled in six ounces of water reduced to three, 

 which the patient takes in two doses, before and after dinner J. 



The dose of the powder is from two to four scruples every 

 three hours. 



* Coste et Willemet Diss, de Cort. Hippocast. 1763. 



t Woodville's Med. Bot. vol. ii.p. 35]. 



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