gently riling, throw out new roots, which maintain it»
brothers, though the fire' fhould be cut off, or decay ; it
is pleafing to obferve a fhoof o f two or three plants
adorned with Hems and branches, with others iffuing
from them, fo. that one plant occupies a great fpace of
ground, covered with its green foliage and red berries ;
but what makes this plant more worthy of attention, is
its excellent qualities in calculous cafes, being in a manner
an unique > in thofe cafes, where every other fpecific
has its contraindication, while this admits o f no kind o f
danger, nor has ever been complained o f by thofe who
have written concerning it ; and none o f thofe who ufed
it by the advice of Don Jofeph Quer, and acknowledge
themfelves to be perfedly cured, have ever complained
of the leaff inconvenience, though fome were not wanting,
who remarked its effeds with the greateft exadnefs; :
fitfpcding, that its lingular efficacy in the cure of the
Hone, might perhaps hide other obnoxious qualities,,
which however: the moll accurate fcrutiny has not been,
able to difcover.
The method generally ufed, fays profeffor Quer, in
adminiltering this fimple remedy, is-to give the powder
of the leaves only, or a decoction in water*. Foreigners
frequently life the firflt method, and. I have chiefly followed
the latter; though I have obferved the like, good
effeds from both. When the berry is perfedly ripe,
which
which is upon its acquiring a red colour like coral, it is
given in powders from, ten grains to a fcruple, or half
a dram, and from, half a. dram, to one or two drams.
The root when in decodion, according to Chriftian
Hermann, from half a dram to two drams: the fame:
with the leaves, or in an infufion, and about a handful,
©r handful and a half of the leaves or more, and in powder
from half a fcruple to a dram but according to
my conftant pradice, I have, fixed the dofe to two
drams o f leaves in a pound of water, apd when in
powders, I always give a dram, becaufe a lefs quantity
only excites pain, and does not come up to the defired
effed.. It fhould be ufed, three or four times a day in
the paroxyim,.taking a copious draught of the decodiorr,,
and i f it feems more palatable, to a, delicate ftomacp
to fweeten.it with fugar, it may be done, but muff be
continued for weeks and months. When the pains
have ceafed, one dofe given daily two hours before
breakfaft will be fufficient, obferving the ufqal diet, in
which cafe it may alfo be efteemedan excellen t preferva-
tive, without being repugnant to thofe few convivial;
hours which may fall to the lot of die wifeft .of men.
It appears to be particularly ufeful in fcorbutic cafes;,
from the teftimony of two learned writers of the faculty,
Marcus Mappi, and J. Chriftian Hermann, in the hiftfia
pjattt, Alfat. written by the former, and after his deceafe
publiihed by the. latter, where it is faid-, ‘ ‘ Baccse matui x
hi4v .e miss