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The Materia Medica.

D.

Daucus fylveftris,Wild Carrot,

the Seed.

Daucus Carcfa»h. S.P.

Digitalis, Fox-glove, Digitalis Mrfurea,the Herb. L. S. P.

Foxglove is an indigenous trienhial plant, growing wildin woods, on heaths, and under hedges ; and juftly rankedamong fuch as are poifqnous. Theleaves are oblong, acu-minated, and fomevvhat hairy, vvith a thick, angular, hollovv,ftalk, on which numerous purple tubulous flowers, refem«.bling thefingerof aglove, hang downvvards, in a rov/ alongone iide,—each on a fliort pedicle. It flowers in May orJune. (L.M.M.) The leaves, which Dr. Wähering ad-vifes to be gathered after the flowering frem has fhot up, andabout the time that the bloßöms are Coming forth, (Bot. Ar~rangem. Vol. II.) have a bitteriih naufeous tafle, and occa-ilon moft violent vomiting and purging. Raii HIß. PLFol. I.

It is in truth one of thofe medicines, of the efFeßs ofwhich, as Lewis jußly obferves, little can be judged fromthe tafle, being not near fo acrid or naufeous as many otheryegetabiss y/hich are taken with great fafety.

It has beer, principally recommended, fpr near a Centurypaft, in compkünts deemed ferophulous. Parkinßm men-tious a deco£tion of tiie leaves having cured an epilepfy of