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Show COMMON ARUM, OR WAKE-ROBIN, MEDICAL This root is a very acrid, VIRTUE. pungent, s ong, heating remec when fresh; insomuch that it leaves its taste in the mouth IN -ROBIN. WAKE-ROB COMMON ARUUM, or WAKE MACULATUM. aundria. i: Spadix above, na twenty-four hoursafter it is taken ; but it losesits acrimonyby eing kept. thas been recommended for promoting the watery excretions, and for quickening the circulation in cold phlegmatic habits, and in diseases from viscid phlegm. had been but little used as an internal remedy, on account of its great acrimony when fresh, and the uncertainty ofits stre after it has been kept; but of late years some practitic again brought it into use, and recommended it as an ¢ cious remedy in some cases. In the new edition of Dr. Lewis’s Dispensatory, published with additions, the editor says, “I have experienced great benefit from it in rheum: those of the fixt kind, which were S have given from ten grains to a scruple of the fresh root twice or thrice a day, ma toa bolus or emulsion with unctuous mucilaginous substances, which cover its pun sency, and pres vent its making any painful impression on the ton roll * rallyexci ted a slight tingling sensation through oug and when the patient was kept warmin bed, ] sweat.” He says, neither wine, water, nor virtues, Paring it for exhibition seems to be by with gummyresi S, that in this form it will retain its powder. Snadix clubbed. Geoffroy recommends says that itis a o appetite; that i T half Tans plant rises oot o1r more 3 cee, } hers,’ which are clustered these the nectaries appear 23 ich beco cuous in he useful in the chlorosis, jaundice inciosing ‘atone spadix, aboveare n = dical, threee or eal, and other¢Gis sorders; four, arrow-s i , ] tons ing upon zi é \ > J berries of a bright scarle ‘ $ HISTO! Native of Britain, flowers from colour 5 with alkaline aromat nd lool look very cons} and “ compositus, in cases of ol Mtervals without fi ver, na Slower than na tura '20 smoke tobacee |