100 MADDER. 



fluids, many have prematurely concluded that it ought to 

 possess prodigious influence over diseases of the bones, hence 

 Glisson* and others mention it as an available remedy for 

 rachitis, and even for giving stability to the union of frac- 

 tures. On the contrary, Du Hamel states, that it renders 

 the bones more fragile, and Bohmer and others assert, that 

 young animals in particular are materially injured by being fed 

 exclusively on this root for some days together f. 



Madder formed one of the five greater aperient roots, and 

 was given in substance from half a drachm, and in decoction 

 from one to four drachms, but it is almost entirely laid aside by 

 practitioners of the present day. 



* Gliss. de rachit. p. 405. 



•f See the works already quoted. 



