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and is of great Service in difficult Digeftion, taken 
either before or after Meals. Simon Paulli extols 
its Virtues ' in putrid and malignant Fevers, and 
fays nothing is preferable to a Deco&ion of it in 
the Mealies and Small- Pox. It increafes the Milk 
of Nurfes, and, being mixed with PePtorals, re- 
lieves afthmatick Complaints, and flubborn Coughs. 
It is alfo wonderfully commended for preferring the 
Sight, and repairing it when decayed. The ufual 
Dofe is from 9j. to gj. It is fometimes employed 
to correPt purging Medicines. On account of its 
fudorifick Virtue it is an Ingredient in Venice Trea- 
cle and Mithridate j and a Water is difhilled from 
it, which is kept in the Shops, and preferibed as a 
Diuretick. 
Externally it is ufed to good Advantage in dif- 
cutient Cataplafms and Fomentations. 
An effential Oil is diftilled from it, which, from 
gut. vj. to xij. received upon Sugar and diffolved 
in Wine, is an excellent Carminative, powerfully 
difeuffing Wind in the Colick. It likewife pro- 
motes Digeftion, and being taken in a pePtoral De- 
ception is ferviceable in Coughs and Afthmas. 
Fenugree k-S eed. 
Semen Fceni Gr<eci, Off, This Seed is of a mo- 
derate Size, and rhomboidal Figure, with a Groove, 
and flight Furrow running obliquely from Corner to 
Corner. It has a yellowifh Colour, a mucilaginous 
Tafte, and ftrong Scent, though fomething plea- 
fant to many People. The Tree upon which it 
grows, in a long (lender Pod, fomewhat flat and 
crooked, is the Fosnum Gr cecum Sativum , C. B. P. It 
is (own in many foreign Countries in the Fields, 
but the Seed is brought to us moftly from Ger- 
many, 
This 
