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Its medicinal properties have been celebrated by several of 

 the older writers, but httle credence appears to have been given 

 to them by modem practitioners : the catalogue of diseases in 

 which it was prescribed, is summed up by Ray in the following 

 passage : — "In tussi, asthmate, pleuritide, ictero, obstructio- 

 nibus Uenis prodesse creditur : quin et ad renum et vesicae do- 

 lores valere, * * * calculos et arenulas expellendo : 

 Matthiolus ad puerorum enteroscelas pulverisatum propinat : 

 Hoffmannus in scorbutieis affectibus commendat." — Syn. 137. 



