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Show COMMON TANSY. COMMON TANSY. TANACETUM VULGARE. ees Class KIX. Syngenesia. Order 11. Polygamia superflua. Essent. Gen. Cuan. Receptaclenaked: Seeds crowned witha slight margin: Calyx imbr Florets of the ray obsolete, or d, hemispherical: three-cleft, sometimes wanting. Spec. Cuar. The young tops of tansy in decoction have proved an admira~ Leaves doubly pinnatifid, deeply serrate. ble Vermifuge, as also the seeds. $e CULINARY PREPARATION. DESCRIPTION. qi wis plant rises three feet. II 'p -ellow. and 2 mall, ‘The flowers are yellow, ve ene t—the : resembling a flat hemisphere: florets of the disk bisexual, 0 ray female. 1LS-TO RY: NT ye Om ° : : rders of Native of Britain, growingin moist pastures, borders ¢ fields, and flowering in July and August. come MEDIC: ned ee o esteemed Tansyis an aromaticstrong that has been Jong esteen purtl for that | ' an anthelmintic, and has been pr inci incipally used for ; i , = yay AMEE and pose; it was likewise esteemed a goodanti-hysteric remecy, I ; ended in ful for removing ut erine obstructions, and recommendet sa tanale ae . rear per’s London Dispensatory, in the year . = tpeees 685 burgh, published, in the third volume of the Edinburgh Essays Physical and Literary, a paper on the gout, in which he recom. mends the use of an infusion of tansy in that disorder; and he mentions two cases in which it was of use:— 1. A gentleman, under fifty years of age, who had been subject to the gout for about fifteen years, on finding his disorder increase, he about seven years ago had recourse to an infusion of tansy to remove it; he filled every morning a tea-pot, capable of holding an English pint of liquor, with the.dried flowers, leaves, and stalks of tansy, and then poured as muchboiling water over them as the pot would hold, andlet it stand till night, when he drank, at going to bed, the whole of the coldinfu sion: byfollowing constantly this method he has remainedfree of the gout for seven years, excepting a slight fit which he had after spraining his ancle. He was not sensible of its operating bystool, by perspiration, or by urine; though Dr. Clarke thought that it acted on his bowels, as he had regularly two stools in the day. 2. Another person, fifty-two years of age, had remainedfree from the gout for three years, by drinking near a pint of the infusion of tansy daily, and by eating some of the fresh tansyin the morning, while it was in season: before using this remedy he had regularly a fit of the gout, which confined him from one to four months in the winter. 4 1659, 169%, } in- gout) pain of Lidill- Yorke. In the Jyear 1771,; the late Dr. David Clarke, Tansy Puppine. Blanch and pound a quarter of a poundof Jordan almonds ; put them into a stewpan, addagill of the syrup of roses, the cramb of a French roll, some grated nutmeg, half a glass of brandy, two table spoonfuls of tansy juice, three ounces of fresh butter, and some slices of citron. Pouroverit a pint and a half of boiling cream or milk, sweeten, and when cold mix it; add the juice of a lemon, and eight eggs beaten. It may be sither boiled or baked. |