a useful vehicle for other more active remedies : and the extract, in doses of ten or fifteen grains* 
combined with myrrh and preparations of iron, affords a powerful and convenient tonic, in the form of pill. 
The dose of the powder is from ten grains to half a drachm; that of the infusion from one ounce to two 
ounces, two or three times a day. 
Off. Prep, — Decoctum Anthemidis nobilis. L.E. 
We have already remarked, that the essential oil is dissipated by boiling. 
Infusum Anthemidis. L.E. 
Extractum Anthemidis. L.E. 
Oleum Anthemidis. L. 
Dr. Schall affirms that chamomile is not only an effectual preventive of nightmare, but the sole certain 
remedy for that complaint. 
The Chamomile, says Mr. John Brown, is the Plant Physician. He says, not only that decoctions, 
or the leaves dried and powdered of the Anthemis nobilis, will destroy insects, but that nothing contributes 
so much to the health of a garden as a number of Chamomile plants dispersed through it. No green-house 
or hot-house should be without Chamomile in a green or in a dried state ; either the stalks or flowers will 
answer. It is a singular fact, that if a plant is drooping and apparently dying, in nine cases out of ten, it 
will recover, if you place a plant of Chamomile near it. — Gardener’s Magazine. 
The Marutafcetida, formerly called Anthemis Cotula, Stinking Chamomile, or May- weed, receptaculis 
conicis, paleis setaceis, fructihus nudis, has been erroneously ranked by some writers on toxicology among 
the vegetable poisons. It is an indigenous annual, growing in waste grounds and amongst corn. The 
whole plant has a strong foetid odour, and where it abounds, is often found to blister the hands of those 
that gather it, which Sir William Hooker attributes to the minute glands sprinkled over its surface. It is 
never prescribed in present practice, nor are we aware of its having ever proved poisonous in this country. 
Dr. Barton states that, like the common Chamomile, a strong decoction, given in the dose of a teacupful, 
will produce copious vomiting and sweating. In America it is used by the vulgar, as a sudorific in chronic 
rheumatism. A weak infusion, taken to a moderate extent, nauseates the stomach, and is sometimes em- 
ployed to promote the action of an emetic. It was formerly used internally in scrofula, and hysteria ; and 
externally in fomentations. 
Nature ! to me, thou art more beautiful 
In thy most simple forms, than all that man 
Hath made, with all his genius, and his power 
Of combination : for he cannot raise 
One structure, pinnacled, or domed, or gemin’d, 
By architectural rule, or cunning hand, 
Like to the smallest plant, or flower, or leaf, 
Which living hath a tongue, that doth discourse 
Most eloquent of Him, the great Creator 
Of all living things. Man’s makings fail 
To tell of aught but this, that he, the framer 
Sought also to create, and fail’d, because 
No life can he impart, or breath infuse. 
To give inertness being. 
