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The people in Herefordshire, where this mofs is 
called rags> dye their {lockings of a brown colour 
with it. This is done by a very Strong but Simple 
decodtion in water, and the colour {lands well (16). 
The fine green lichenoides with black warts (17), 
is a celebrated medicine, and in very frequent ufe, 
with the country people about Upfal, for the thrufli 
in children : to this end they give an infufion of it 
in milk. A medicine of this kind is of great im- 
portance in thofe countries, where that diSorder oc- 
curs much more frequently than with us (18). It is 
not received into the Swedish difpenfatory ; but is 
known however in the Shops, under the name of 
mufcus cumatilis. We have it not in England} and 
Dillenius found it but in one place about Geiflen : in 
the woods of Sweden it is more plentiful. A An- 
gular cafe, which is related in the Amczmtates Aca- 
demic# (19), has given rife to an opinion of its ufe- 
fulnefs in the worms alfo. The cafe briefly was 
this : A country girl had, for near half a year, com- 
plained of excruciating pains in her flomach and 
bowels, which were attended with vomiting, anxiety, 
and great watchful nefs. All that had been pre- 
ferred for her by ProfeSfor Linnaeus and others, who 
took her cafe for the worms, proved altogether fruit- 
lefs. Being afterwards left to the care of her neigh- 
bours and relations, fome good women gave her a 
decodtion of this mofs, which the Uplanders call 
(16) Dillen. Hift. Mufc. p. 213. 
(17) Lichenoides digitatum late virens verruch nigris notatum. 
Ibid. p. 207. 
{18) Boerhaav. Aphorifm. §. 982. 
/19) Vol. II. p. 69. DtTcenia. 
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