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COCHXiEARIA ARMORACIA. 
name of Spirkus Antiscorbuticus, sive, Mixtura Simplex Antiseory 
butica, Drawizii,* AVas found by WerlhofF an useful remedy in 
paralysis, and other diseases requiring active and powerful 
stimulanJs.f Dr. CuUen observes, that the distilled spirit of scuxvy 
grass may probably be improved by the addition of volatile acid 
of tartar, as in the Spiritus Antiscorbuticus Drawizii, and in 
this state may be an useful stimulant in paralytic cases. It may 
also be employed as a diuretic ; but as an antiscorbutic, neither 
this, nor the conserve, promises so much»benefit as the fresh plant, 
eaten as a salad, or the expressed juice in its pure unmixed state. 
The sensible qualities of this plant are sufficiently powerful to 
warrant a belief in many of the virtues that are ascribed to it. 
Off. The Plant. 
Off. Pp. Spiritus Raphani Comp. D. 
COCHLEARIA ARMORACIA. 
Horse Radish.^ 
Class, Order, Nat, Ord. and Gen. Char. 
as the preceding species. 
Spec. Char. Radical Leaves lance-shaped, notched. Stem 
Leaves jagged. 
This plant is the Raphanus Rusticanus of former Pharmacopoeias. 
The root is perennial, long, tapering, white; the stalk is round, 
erect, branched, smooth, and rises two or three feet ip height ; the 
radical leaves are very large, lance-shaped, scolloped at the edges^, 
and stand on strong foot stalks : those of the stalk are much smaller, 
narrow, and often divided at the edges ; the flowers ai;e white, 
I. ... iih -jumftHr* m 
* Fit ex spiiitu Tartari et spiritu Cochleariae, quibas Vitriolum, ad rnbedineW* 
calcrnatura, irroratur, succedente digestione et destlliatione. Mnrray, Ap. Med. toI, if.' 
p. 426. jujh. (^■ i. lo iS93C( 
t Opera, 278. Mat. Med. 241. ? ' >aoq^}.a8 
% This plant being so well known, we think it unnecessary to give a fignre of it^^^j '^^ 
