hyemis tempore acefcunt; valde gratum habent faporem,
fub nrvevigerit et conférvantur diu, in locis feptentrio-
nalibus, maxima copia crefcunt, et cum aliis ibidem
crefcentibus, adæquatum et fufficiens remedium fcorbuti
;præbent, annotante id etiam Joanne Frid., Bachftrom,
¿fui etiam horum myrtillorum rubrorum ingèntem vim
in iitis locis provenire confirmât, provido omnis neceffi-
iatis humanæ numinis beneficio.”—Pag. 331.:
In the year 1734, after the conqueft o f Naples, continues
Don Jofeph Quer, I returned to the .court o f Madrid,
and pradifed in my profeffion, and prefcribed .the
gayuba, whofe virtues were unknown, though in many
provinces, they were well acquainted with the name o f
the plant. In 1762, I gathered it at Fuente Novilla, to
have it delineated ; in many places, the country people
were furprifed to fee me' take notice of it, when according
to their notions it was fo pernicious to children, who
eat o f its berries. I prefcribed it to a patient, ordering
him to boil two drams of the leaves,’ in a large veffel
o f water; which had the happieil effed. . By this means
I introduced the ufe of it at court, and believe I was the
firft in Spain who adminiftered it. In further proof of
its efficacy, I ffiall add,.that the illuftrious Senor Lupia
biffiop of Leon, having applied in feveral places, as well
abroad as in Spain, for a remedy for a nephritic complaint,
they fent him a plant from Rome, with the name
of Buxarola, whofe virtues, as well as name, were totally
unknown
unknown, to us,, yet the vegetable exifts in great quantities,
and is known in the kingdom o f Leon by the name
of Agauja.
In the year 1740, being at Barcelona, I went on a botanical
party, to. vifit the famous mountain of Montfer-
rate, in company with that celebrated botanift Don Juan
Minuart, profeffor o f botany o f the royal garden, and
we fpent two and twenty days in that excurfion; my
friend, was much troubled with nephritic complaints,
which were extremely painful, particularly at that moment
when we were at the very fummit o f the mourn-
tain, from whence he found the utmoft difficulty to
defcend ; luckily we met the gayuba on that very fpot,
and when he had reached the convent, he had the molt
violent fymptoms o f his complaint, therefore I immediately
ordered the following decodion :
R. Gayuba leaves.. ;r: 2 drains
Camomile flowers s -.¿i. dram.
Refined nitre - - 1 fcruple.
In a proper veffel, boiled in a pound o f water, and'
left to dimmer, over a. flow fire, the: veffel kept covered,
' and when. removed, not to be ffiaken; the above
tb be: drank lukewarm, adding half an ounce of refined
fngar, and to be taken, twice a. day that is, in. the.
morning early, failing, and in the evening, by which,
iftethod the fits ceafed, knd the patient, continued it,
, • d u r in g :