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TORMENTILLA.—TORMENTIL.
Lime Flowers, two drams.
Boiling Water, two pounds.
Infuse for a quarter of an hour ; thenstrain, and add
Syrup of Marshmallows, one ounce.Mix. (Gall.)
Disp. Cha. Paris prescribes two dramseach, of lime flowers and of liquorice root,and one pound and a half of boiling water.
It is slightly anti-spasmodic. — The firstinfusion is generally acidulated with oxy-mel or with tartaric syrup, and sweetenedwith syrup of gum, and sometimes with sy-rup of poppy. The second is recommendedby Chaussier in nervous affections withhysteric spasms. Two drams of Hoff-mann's liquor is frequently added. Bothshould be taken hot.
LIME-FLOWER WATER.
Agua Tiliit. (Gall. ; Fuld. ; Genbv. ;Olden. ; Palat. ; Sax. ; Sard. ; Her-bu-. ; Swediaur)
Lime Flowers,Water,
two parts.i sufficient quantity.
Distil twenty parts. (Swedîaur)
Palat. prescribes one part of flowersand three parts of water ; one part and ahalf to be distilled. — Gall. ; and Sard. —■one of flowers and four of water ; one halfto he distilled. — Herbip. — one of flowersand six of water. — Sax. — one of flowersand twenty of water ; two thirds to be dis-tilled. — Olden. — one of flowers and thirtyof water ; twenty to be distilled. — Genev.— four of flowers and a sufficient quantityof walei' ; six to be distilled.
R. Lime Flowers, three parts.
Water, twelve parts.
Enclose the flowers in a bag suspendedin the centre of a cucurbit in such a mannerthat it may not touch the water, and distilsix parts without ebullition.
Dose, from two to four ounces.
TORDYUUM OFFICINALE, Linn.
Synonimr :— Séséli de Crète, Fr.
Bucks. ; Hisp. ; Wirtem. ; Bergiüs ;Murray and Gmelin ; Zarda.
A plant of the south of Europe. (Pen-tandriaDigynia,h\tm.; UmbeUiferte, Juss.;Fig. Zorn, le. pi. t. 278)
The root and seeds are employed.
The root (Radix Tordylii seu Seseli Cre-tici seu montant) is long, slender, fibrous,and white.
The seeds are long, nearly flat, rough tothe touch, marked by three projecting lines,and furnished with a white border. It hasan aromatic, and a similar though feebletaste.
It is excitant.
TORMENTILLA ERECTA, Linn -TORMENTIL.
Synonimes :— Tormentille, Fr. ; Tormen-tillwurz, Blutkraut, Feigwarzkraut, Sie-henfingerkraut, Germ. ; Natrznjk.Trzenekorenj, Bohem. ; Tormentilla, Ital. ;Port, j and Spak. ; Korze ziele pepawy,Pol.
Lokd. ; Edikb. ; Dubl. ; Amer. ; Amst. ;Akt. ; Austr. ; Batav. ; Bavas. ;Belg. ; Bruns. ; Hisp. ; Gall.; Ferr. ;Fenn. ; Form. Hop. Fr.; Fuld. ; Ge-nev.; Hamb. ; H ANN. ; Hass. ; Lipp. ;Olden. ; Lusit. ; Pol. ; Borus. ;Ross". ; Sáx. ; Suec. ; Wirtem. ; Her-bip. ; Wurceb. ; Bergius; Brugka-telli ; Coxe ; Guibourt ; Murray andGmehn; Paris; Spielmann; Zardá.
A plant of Europe. (Icosandria Poly-
gyria, Linn. ; Rosacea!, Juss, ; Fig. Zorn,le. pi. t. 358)
The root (Radix Tormentilla! sylvestrisseu Heptaphylli seu Septifolii) is employed.It is nodose, of the thickness of the finger,oblong, and furnished with numerous fibres.It is of a brown-red colour externally, andpink or yellowish-brown, sometimes spot-ted internally ; it is" inodorous, but of avery astringent and bitterish taste.
It is astringent. — Dose, from half a dramto one dram, of the powder.
astringent powder.
Pulvis tormentilla! compositus. (Genev.)
R. Terra sigillaia, six ounces.