him a>, mor<§f accurate; tho’ not compleat(account, of its good and
bad effects, îs, the following words: “ This plant derives its
name from the place of its growth, which is here in Guldbrandf-
dale,; in the parifh of Waag,. apd the. chapelry of Sels. It delights
in fwampy. places, t and bggins to moot towards the dole of June,
gr the beginning of Jady, when the fwamps are entirely divided;
It bears a kind of gtafs like the Norway Mafterwort, and its root
is abopt the circumference of a.half-crown, lome round, others
ohlongi as in the figure.' None of the lèverai medicinal didHona-
ries, which I have fearched, mention either its ufe,* or fo'much as
its name,, polfibly^from, ifs being unknown to the authors; tho’
a ce/tain writer of -^dagdeburg jfpeaksfof the Apium raninum,
which he interprets water-pariley, ( in the' following manner ;
Affedfcat ovicula ex .paludibus apium raninum, cum tamen inter
ovem et hanc her bam talis. ut ovicula ftatim moriapir,
.etjn.hgnum^mortis ex rApio comefbe, in hepate ovis repe-
riatur veftigium inftar folii de Apio jecori anipialis quafi impref-
fum. Which défcriptioh" evinces' w'atèr-parfley and Selinape to be
the fame the latter * being prefent death to the Iheep; whereas
in hyine.it is known to operate lb beneficially* that it is the belt
mpdicihe’^mcj^çàp. bë given them.. The poifop of it is equally
fatal to men, as the inhabitants of Sels know from many mclan-
cho%ihfiances, and within nsy time, two children, having igno-
ùMr. •àfter.. Üpqn cutting a frelh root into
fficesj.an^jthrowing it into frelh' water,-it emits taysof different
■ colours, and this water being put up with the Nape, in a bunged
ca&, cgntraa^ a Imell more loathfom than any carrion! As
to the vlrtue|^theredf,*it,is foundnto. be a fpecific in arthritic
calender which it is,fifed. in theI fqllowing manner ; being fewed
up in a piece o f, fine linen, "it; is fattened to the Hurt fo as to be
placed^on the part attended, either; the arms, the loins, or other
limbs';, upon itsj being warnedhy thç natural heat of the body,
Jhe pain is. imme'diately affuaged5< and without any return, whilft
the Nape remains applied to .the body. This is, "known by
taking it pflf, when the pain immediately returns, elpecially if
the diftemper be chroiiical, or if recent, the ufe of this remedy
has been known totally to 'remove the diftemper within a quarter
of a'year.. Another lingular virtue has' alfo been found in it; an
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