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SOLANtJM DULCAMARA. 
mustard -seed, when taken whole, is gently to stimulate the stomach, 
and excite the peristaltic motion of the intestines ; hence, the good 
effects resulting from its use, in some cases of dyspepsia, and when 
the bowels are in a torpid state ; as in paraljsis, &c. Infused in 
water, and taken in small doses, it often proves diuretic and aperient ; 
in larger quantities it creates nausea and vomiting, and is a useful 
remedy where opium and other narcotic poisons, have been taken. 
Of late years, the white mustard-seed has become a very fashionable 
medicine ; and by some practitioners, it has been extolled in all 
tlie glittering costume of quackery, as a general specitic. The flour 
of mustard, (as a topical remedy,) combined with bread crumb and 
vinegar, is well known for its stimulating effects;* an acrid oil, ob- 
tained from the seeds after the common mild oil has been expressed, 
is recommended as an embrocation in chronic rheumatism. The 
popular and well known patent raedicine,|called Whitehead's Essence 
of Mustard, is a combination of flour of mustard and other stimu- 
lating ingredients.! 
Off. Semina. 
Off. Pp. Cataplasma Sinapis. Loud. 
. Sinapeos. Dub. 
^ 
SOLANUM DULCAMARA. 
Bitte?^ Siueet.^, 
Class Pentandria. — Order Monogynia. 
Nat. Ord. Solan ace£. Linn. Juss. 
Gen. Char. Corolla wheeled. Anthers subcoalescent, gaping 
at top, with a double pore, ^^rry 2-celIed. 
* Dr. Underwood recommends an ointment composed of equal parts of flour of 
mustard, sulphur, and staves-acre, in tinea. See his Treatise on the Diseases of 
Children, Vol. ii. 
t Whitehead's Essence of Mustard. 01. terebinth, camph. spt. rosmarini, to which 
is added farina sinapeos. (Gray's Supplement, p. 422.) 
t In the annexed illustration, Fig. a. represents a sprig of the natural size, h, A mag- 
nified anther, c. The pistillura magnified. 
