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This Seed Teems to confift of an ammoniacal 
Salt enveloped in a large Quantity of Sulphur, 
bodi thick and thin, and a copious Earth : Whence 
arifes a mucilaginous Compound, which may be 
drawn from it by Codtion. 
It foftens Tumours, digefts, ripens, and difeuftes, 
and alfo allays Pains. Its ufe is fo common, that it is 
put into moft emollient, ripening, or difeutient 
Fomentations and Cataplafms, being either reduced 
to Meal, or boiled in Water to a Mucilage. It is 
advantageoully preferibed in emollient, carminative 
and anodyne Clyfters, to difeufs Wind, obtund 
the Acrimony of the Humours, and cover the 
Inteftines deprived of their Mucus, in Colicks, 
Loofenefles, and Dyfenteries. But Simon Paulli 
obferves that its Smell is very offenfive to fome 
Women, particularly to fuch as are hyfterical, and 
therefore that it ought not to be inconfiderately 
put into Clyfters for that Sex. The Mucilage 
extra&ed from it by Water is of Service to Blood- 
fhot Eyes, and both Simon Paulli and River ius 
commend it in Ophthalmies. 
H A Pv T WO R T-S E ED. 
Semen Sefelis , Off. This is an oblong ftriated 
Seed, with a foliaceous Border on each Side, of a 
greenifh brown Colour, a fragrant Smell, and an 
acrid, bitterifh, aromatick Tafte, fomething like a 
Mixture of Orange-Peel and Cummin Seed. The 
Plant to which it belongs is the Ligufticum quod 
Sefeli Officinarum , C. B. Siler montanum vulgar e 9 
J. B, It grows upon the Alps^ upon the Hills in 
Tome' Parts of France , and other warm Coun- 
tries 
The Seed of Hartwort is heating and drying, 
provokes the Menfes and Urine, and expels Wind. 
ttioficorides directs it to be given in Wine to aftift 
Digeftion, 
