OCR Text |
Show RTHWORT. pression of the months, and over comes that chronic indigestion which occasions the gout.be employed on this Haller adds, ** Only a drachm must occasion, for more will excite vomiting nor should it be often repeated, for the long use of this robs the stomach ofits villous coat. plan which has happened to those who have used the stomachic infusion so much boasted at Munster.” Chomel found that a decoction of half an ounce of aristolochia with an equal quantity of the heads of wormwood, taken for five mornings, has cured piles when commencing to be fistulous, and matter has been discha d per anum. In sucl cases he found: adyant alse a glyster of a decoction of this plant. It enters into t composition of the black plaster, which Galen recommends to be applied to maligna nt ulcers, I¢ been used with success against the bite of the viper. CLIMBING BIRTHWORT. ARISTOLOCHIA CLEMATITIS. Ee Class XX. Gynandria. Essent. Gen. Coar, Spec, Cuar. gether. Order TV. Hexandria. Same as the first. Leaves cordate: Stem erect : Flowers axillary, crowded to- DESCRIPTION. > Rists twofeet. ry) , * Leaves on foo stalks, alternate, smooth, pear- Ls “7 £ } shaped. Flowers numerous, rising out at the axilla of tne > eaves in bunches, of a pale yellow. Corolla tubular, tongue3 J ) haped, at first erect, Taye HISTORY. ate : Native of Britain, in woods and hec i till September. : 7 July , flowerin g from Jul} MEDICAL VIRTUE. Theroot of this plant, taken inwardly, animates 1 z nature when dull, and hence has +i 29 hex succeeded in cache x |