Excerpt from The New Dispensatory: Containing, I. The Elements of Pharmacy; II. The Materia Medica, or an Account of the Substances Employed in Medicine; With the Virtues and Uses of Each Article, So Far as They Are Warranted by Experience and ObservationThis plant was employed by the ancients externally againfi eryfipc latons, and other inammatory dil' orders. Later times have given it internally 1n hmmoptoes, as a relic rative in atrophies and confump tions, and likewife as an a'ntepilepe tic. Some recommend for thefe purpofes the exprell'edjuice to be taken to the quantity of an ounce; others the dried leaves, in the dofe of a dram and others a water dif tilled from them But if any real benefit is expected from afrie,1it ought to be ufed liberally as food though even then, . Its effefis Would not perhaps be fuperior to thofe of more approved culinary herbs.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.

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