I/O The Materia Medica. Part II.

LUJUL ZE folia: Oyos alh<c age, after taking a dram of thefe

Gerard. Wood for re 1 ; the leaves feeds in powder, feized with ex-

[£• E.~\ quifite pains of the abdomen, a

This is a fmall plant, growing difficulty of refpiration, and al-

wild in woods. In tafte and me- moil total Iofs of voice ; and that

<3ical qualities, it is finv.lar to the he was relieved from thefe com-

ommon forrel ( fee the article plaints by a glyfler of milk and

Acbtosa ), but conliderably more fugar, which brought away a vaft

grateful, and hence is preferred quantity of worms. But Mr.

by the London college. Boiled Geoffroy obferves, very juftly, that

with milk, it forms an agreeable either th&fe fymptoms were owing

whey ; and beaten with fujjar, a to the worms, and not to the me-

very elegant conferve, whicti has dicine; or that thefe feeds, if they

teen for fome time kept in the have any noxious quality, lofe it.,

fliops, and is now received in the with their bitternefs, in boiling ;

difpeufatory. fince they were commonly ufed

among the Greeks as food, and

L U M J3 R I CI et LI M A C E S recommended by Galen as vt ry

T E R R E S T «ES. Earth- wholefome.worms and fnails [£.]

Both thefe are fuppoled to cool L U F U L U S : Convolvulus

and cleanfe the vifcera. The 1-at- pcrcun s, bet< roclitus, foribus her*

ter, from their abounding with a baceis, capfulis foliaceis /irobili iu-

vifcid glutinous juice, are recom- far Mar if. Hops ; the loofe leafy

mended as a reilorative in con- heads which grow on the tops of the

fiimptions: for this purpofe, they ftalks.

are direfted to be boiled in milk ; Thefe are one of the molt agree-

and thus managed, they may pof- able of the ftrong bitters, though

iibly be of fome fervicc. They rarely employed for any medicinal

give over nothing in diftillation purpofes. Their principal con-

either with water or fpirit ; and lumption is in malt liquors, which

hence the diftilled waters of them, they render lefs glutinous ard

though formerly in great efteem, difpofe to pafs off more freely by

are not found to have any of the urine.

■virtues which the animals them-selves are fuppofed to poffefs. LYCOPERDON : Fungus rotun-das orbicularis C. B. Pule-ball, or

LUPINI femen : Lupini vulva- dufty mufhroom [£.]ris,feminc et fore, alio, fitivi J. B. This fungus is found in dry

White lupines; the feeds. paflure giounds. It feems to be

Thefe have a leguminous tafte, nea:lyot the fame quality with the

accompanied with a difagreeable agaric of thfi oak (fee p. 76.) and

bitter one. They are faid to be an- has, like it, been employed for re-

thel^intic. both internally taken, llraining external hemorrhages and

and applied externally. Cafpar other fluxions. The fine dull, with

Hoffman cautions againll their in- which it becomes filled by age, has

tern'al ufe, and tells lis (from one been applied alfo in the fame in-

cf the Arabian writers) that they tentions.have fometimes occafioned death.

Simon Paul'i alfo fays, that he MACIS [L. £.] Mace ; one of

faw a boy of eight or ten years of the coverings of the nutmeg (fee

tlie