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Show FETID HELLEBORE. MEDICAL VIRTUE. A decoction of about a drachmof the green leaves, or fifteen grains of the dried, is given to children, and repeated three mornings, whenit seldom fails expelling the round worms; or a tea-spoonful of the juice, mixed with syrup, may be given for that purpose. Its extract, which contains mostly its gummous parts, with some ofits resin, is milder than the root itself, and is used for the same purposes: it is given from five grains to a scruple. Its tincture, called tinctura melampodii, the old name given to this plant, which is drawn with one pound of proof spirit from four ownces of the root, is of the same nature. Dr. Mead recommends it as one of the most powerful medicines he knew for removing obstructions of the menses, given in the quantity of a tea-spoonful twice a day. I have often used it on Dr. Mead’s recommendation ; and thoughit did not succeed in every case, yet I found no medicine so efficacious in removing uterine obstructions, and restoring the natural menstrual discharge, as this tincture. i UPRIGHT VIRGIN’S BOWER. CLEMATIS RECTA. Class XIII. Polyandria. Essen’, Gen. Cuan. Spec. Cuar.. Order VI. Polygynia. Calyx none: Petals four to six: Seeds caudate. Leaves pinnate: Pinne ovate-lanceolate, entire: Stem erect: Flowers four- and five-petalled. eee DESCRIPTION. Tis plant rises about two feet in height. Leaves opposite, and pinnated. Pinna in pairs, and terminated by an odd one. Flowers terminating the stem in irregular umbels. Petals white. Seeds attached to their styles, which give them the appearance of featheredtails. HISTORY. cers, and venereal affections of long standing. ha ae ioaS MEDICAL USE. Dr, Stoerck recommends an infusionof two or three drachms of the leaves in a pint of boiling water, of which he gave four Ounces three times a, day. The bruised leaves were applied to ulcers as an escharotic. Given also in cutaneous affections, ule es aed —_ Native of Hungary, Austria, and France, andflowers from June till August. |