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Show 706 MUGWORT. by obstinate resolutions of drinking no wine at all*, that I put more weight upon the part of temperance, than any other, And I doubt very much whether the great encrease of that disease in England within these twenty years, may not have been occasioned by the custom of so much wineintroducedintoour constant and commontables. Forthis use may be more pernicious to health than that of taverns and debauches, according to the oldstile, which were but byfits, and upon set or casual en. counters. I have sometimes thought that this customof using wine for our common drink, may alter in time the very consti. tution of our nation, I mean the native tempers of ourbodies and minds, aud cause a heat and sharpness in our humours, whichis not natural to our climate. Our having been deniedit bynature, is argument enough that it was neverintended us for commonuse; nordo I believe it was so in any other countries, there being so small a part of the world where it grows; and where it does, the use of it pure being so little practised, andin some places defended by customs or laws. So that Turks have not known it, unless of late years; and I have met with many Spaniards that never tasted it pure in their lives; nor in the time when I was in France, did I observe any I conversed with to drink it unmixedat their meals. The true use of wine, is either as I mentioned, for a cordial ; and I believe there is nota better to such as drink it seldom; or else what the mother of Lemuel tells her son, ‘‘ give strong drink to him that is ready to perish?”’. SEA WORMWOOD. ARTEMISIA MARITIMA. Class XIX. Syngenesia. Essent, Gen. Cuar. Order 11. Polygamia superflua. The same as the first. Spec, Cuar, Leaves many-cleft, tomentose: Branches drooping: Flowers oblong, downy, sessile. a DESCRIPTION. * In this way our famous accoucheur Dr. Clark has beencured. Rises near a foot, the whole plant covered with white down: + It would be happy for mankind if wine were prohibited, and only Ieaves irregularly divided into narrow, linear segments, covered good, perfect beer used in its place, with a fine down. spikes, Flowers a brown yellow, forming pendent Florets in the circumference three. HISTORY. Native of Britain, plentiful on the sea shore, andflowers in August and September. MEDICAL VIRTUE. Inits wild state it smells like marum or camphor, but in our partons is less grateful: beat up with thrice its weight offine Sugar it is made into a conserve, ordered by the Londoncollege, and may be taken where the other preparations disgust too much. tacts as a tonic, and is good in worm cases. 22 2 |