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Show 978 OFFICINAL SWALLOW-WORT. were so commonly administered; so that Hume mentions inhis Essays, that in one province of Rome 3000in one year were tried for this horrid crime; and the great were verylavish in rewarding physicians who were supposed to be in possession of anyantidote to poison :—so dreadful is man to man! Hence the great Boerhaave in recording its virtues says: ** Hee radix dicitur vino infusa ut hausta venenum expellere, et cavere, ne assumptum venenum multum noceat. Folia in peste, rabie cas nina, et omnibus contagiosis morbis susceptis conducit.” In re- mote practice it was employed in the cure of dropsy, and comes recommended by Paracelsus and Van Helmont; and in modern times by Hoffman, Stahl, and Bergius; but it is suspected by Haller as a dangerous remedy. WILD ANGELICA. ANGELICA SYLVESTRIS. Class V. Pentandria. Essent. Gen. Cuan, Order IT. Digynia. Fruit somewhat round, angular, solid; Styles re- flexed: Corolla equal: Petals incurved. Sprc. Cuar. (; rec. Leaves equal, ovate-lanceolate, serrate, Se DESCRIPTION, Stark Several feet in height. Stem hollow. Leaves pinnated; pinne serrate, several, ending in an odd one. Flowers inlarge umbels. General involucre wanting. HISTORY. Grows in marshy woods and hedges, flowers in June and J uly MEDICAL VIRTUES. The€ same as the former, but in rather a less degree. |