(seq. 157)

148

Materia Medica

Tonics

Cullen used it with advantage in cutaneous affections of the
Leprous kind.

Tanacetum. Or Tansey, this is a powerfull
bitter, the less so than chamomile. Dr Black used it in gout, with
him it proved diuretic and laxative, Gardiner considered it
rather an innocent than a usefull medicine, Hoffman thought
it an excellent anthelmintic, and from my own experience I am
inclined to think it may be of service.

Anthemis Nobilis. Or chamomile have long been celebrated as a
stomachic, it was employed in the 17th Century, before the
discovery of the bark in intermittant fevers. Morton thought it as
usefull as the bark, if given in substance, in the other forms
they prove cathartic. Hoffman cured intermittant fevers by it.
Berjius and Pitcairn both used it and the latter thought it
an antidote to a flatulent colic; this I cannot believe, it may
be usefull by its cathartic quality. Dr Cullen and Pringle
supposed it relieved the tenesmus by means of an antispasmodic
power. Cullen found it rather injurious in Diarrhea, he used
it in intermittants. It has somewhat of an emetic quality, a
simple aqueous infusion is frequently as an assistant in emetics,
the bitter to most people is less disagreeable than any other.