Foreign Vegetables. 351 
is very difficult to nurfe it up in Gardens, unlefs an 
Iron-Cage be put over it as a Defence. 
Marum is feldom ufed in the Shops though it 
is by no Means to be ranked in the loweft Clafs of 
aromatick Plants. Minder erus, in his Aloedarium 
Marocaftinum , and Wedelius , have each of them 
honoured it with a particular Dilfertation, and have 
highly extolled it. Wedelius attributes to it a Vir- 
tue of inciding, attenuating, opening and digeft- 
ing, of corredting the Lentor of Phlegm, and an 
inert State of the Bile, of increafing the Motion of 
the Blood and Spirits, and a peculiar Efficacy in 
curing cold and moift Affedtions. He reckons it 
an extraordinary Diuretick, a powerful Diaphore- 
tick and Carminative, one of the belt of Antifcor- 
buticks in a cold Scurvy, a ftrong Emmenagogue, 
and a molt excellent Cephalick, Pedtoral, Anti- 
afthmatick, Cardiack and Stomachick ; that it is 
likewife good in Difeafes of the Liver, Spleen, 
Womb, and Nerves ; as alfo in Impotency, and 
Diforders from Worms: In a Word, he efteems it 
a true Polychreftum. But perhaps this celebrated 
Phyfician was too eafily induced by its exquifite 
Smell to be over prolix in his Commendations, and 
to afcribe to it the whole Catalogue of Virtues which 
are found in all other Aromaticks. We muft there- 
fore wait till further Experience lhall demonftrate its 
Properties. Etmuller lays it is of Service in Head- 
aches and nervous Affedtions, and that it is an 
excellent Remedy in Apoplexies and Catarrhs. The 
Leaves are prefcribed in Powder to gfs. 
Externally the Powder is reckoned an extraor- 
dinary Errhine, either alone, or mixed with To- 
bacco. It is faid to purge and ftrengthen the Brain, 
and to reftore Lofs of Smelling. 
John Quincy , a Phyfician of England, in his com- 
plete Englijh Difyenfatory , prepares from the Leaves 
L 4 of 
