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ces'lafls for many hours ; the internal, or woody, part hasbut little tafte. Ruffel. Med. Obf. & Inq. Vol. 3.

A decoäion, made örjij of the cortical part of the frefb.root, boiledinjfeiij ofwäter to föij,dofefrom ^ivto^viij,fourtimesaday,i?/^?/foundtobeveryefiicacious inrefblving vene-real nodes, and in a thickening of the periofteum from othercaufes. He found it ferviceable in no other venereal fymp-tom, andgenerallyjoined withita folution of the hydrargyrusmuriatus. (See Med. Obf & faquiries, Vol. 3,) Doc"lorMonro fays he has not found this decoöion of fervice, unlefswhere mercury had be'en freely ufed before, or at the fametimewithit. (Monro on Chymtflry and Mat. Med. Vol. 3,/.177,) The cafe ofa diffitulty of fwallowing after lying-in,■ feemingly occaiioned by a paralytic affection, and of threeyears duration, cured by chewing' a thin flice of the root asoften as the patient could bear to do it, may be feen in IVith-erinfs Bot. Arrangein. Vol.I.

The bark of Mezereon may be employed external-ly,— and probably vvith equal efteö, — as that of Thyme-loea is by the inhabitants of Aunis, and by Le Roy y — as afubflitute for a blifter. See Le Roy Effaifur l'Ecorce de Garou %

Millepeda, Onifcus Afellu$ y

the JVood-loufe. L. S. N.

Morum, Mulberry, Morus nigra, L. S. P.the Fruit.

Mofchus, Muß,Myrrha, Myrrb,the Gum~refin.

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